Conferences and Meetings

Thursday, March 27, 2025

No Result

View All Result

Ashutosh Dutta’s significant contribution in Conferences and Meetings for IEEE Communications sponsored or co-sponsored conferences, workshops and webinars.

As a longtime IEEE volunteer for more than 25 years, Ashutosh has served in many leadership positions at various levels within IEEE including the section, region, chapter, society, TAB (Technical Activities Board) and MGA (Membership Geographic level) and has demonstrated sustained contribution in various conferences and meetings since 2006. In addition to various humanitarian and technical contributions, Ashutosh has also contributed significantly to conferences and meetings. Ashutosh has established new conferences with unique themes, technology workshops, one day summits, Industry Days, and webinars that he co-chaired and led to a successful completion for multiple years at various parts of the world. These events were technically enriching focused on 5G, helped the humanity and beyond technologies and also resulted in overall financial surplus for the society. These also helped These events had multiple positive outcome including spreading the knowledge about 5G technologies to different types of people in various parts of the world, including industry, academia and government at the grass root level, industry outreach, and financial benefits.

Established 5G Summit Framework and organized more than 90 5G Summits around the world (2015 – Present) – Sustained Contribution for 8 years

As Director of Industry Outreach Board and Member-At-Large of IEEE Communications Society’s Ashutosh created a framework for industry engagement and led more than 90 highly successful and high impact 5G Summits (www.5gsummit.org) worldwide starting with the first 5G Summit in Princeton University. These summits helped to engage IEEE with local industries and experts worldwide and created various 5G assets for IEEE. Ashutosh strongly believed in the concept of “Global means doing it locally everywhere” and managed to replicate more than 90 summits around the world with the help of local chapters. As the Industry outreach director within IEEE Communications Society’s BOG, Ashutosh created a model framework with three models for these summits that provided flexibility to local chapters and also paved the way for potential collaboration with other organizational units. These summits provided membership benefits and also drove the membership growth in various parts of the world. This framework also established a strong collaboration with MTT society. ComSoc and MTT societies have been organizing 5G summits since 2017 during IMS conference. Ashutosh also initiative the first Next G Summit on June 14 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

Founding Co-Chair of Flagship IEEE Future Networks World Forum (2018 – 2023) – Sustained contribution for 6 years

As a founding Co-Chair for Future Networks for 7 years and Communications Society’s Member-At-Large Ashutosh demonstrated his leadership in creation of International Networks Generation Roadmap, building IEEE 5G/6G Innovation testbed. Ashutosh co-founded the IEEE 5G World Forum in 2018 that was later renamed to Future Networks World Forum. Ashutosh has served as founding Co-Chair of this conference since 2018. Over the last five years this flagship conference has attracted more than 500 attendees with about 150 papers and more than 70 sessions each year. These conferences have also resulted in 20% profit making these financially viable. Additional details about this conference can be found at https://fnwf2022.ieee.org/. This conference has hosted keynote speakers from industry and academia including Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn among others. This conference continued to run even during the COVID time in virtual mode followed by Hybrid in Montreal in 2022. During 2023 this conference is taking place as in-person mode in Baltimore during November 13-15. Many of these keynote talks from the last 5 years are archived in IEEE.TV and the papers have been archived in IEEE Xplore.

Founding Chair for IEEE 5G Workshop on First Responder and Tactical Networks (2018 - 2023) – Sustained Contribution for 6 years

Ashutosh realized early on that it is important for the government agencies to understand the benefits of 5G and apply these technologies to various government verticals like homeland security, Army, Defense, health professionals, first responders. Keeping this in mind, Ashutosh established a new workshop series called 5G Workshop on First Responder and Tactical Networks in 2018 and has served as the chair for this conference since then. He also continued to lead the workshop during COVID time with many virtual tracks and speakers from around the world. These workshops have helped various government agencies to get in-depth knowledge of 5G and beyond technologies. They could then apply these technologies appropriately for their respective applications. He continues to organize these workshops at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in Laurel, Maryland and 2023 is the 6h consecutive year. More details about this workshop can be found at https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/conferences/2023-first-responder-and-tactical-networks-workshop. Talks from these workshops are already archived in IEEE.TV that provide monetary value to IEEE and technical value to people in the world and to the first responder and tactical networks community.

Founding Co-Chair for IEEE Connecting The Unconnected (CTU) Challenge and Workshop – Sustained contribution for 3 years (2021-2023)

Understanding that IEEE needs to work on reducing the digital divide in the world, Ashutosh co-founded the IEEE Connecting The Unconnected working group. As the Co-Chair for IEEE Connecting The Unconnected (CTU) working group within IEEE Future Networks, Ashutosh worked with IEEE staff and fellow volunteers and conceived the idea of hosting a challenge and summit to address the digital divide problems. The challenge has attracted 270 submissions from 69 countries in 2021, 226 submissions from 43 countries in 2022 and 296 submissions from 59 countries in 2023. This is a unique initiative to find out novel concept and proof-of-concept work that can be deployed widely to help address the digital divide issues. This challenge has awarded 25 awards in both the categories. Some of these award winners got funded by various venture capitalists and got support from local NGOs to get these implemented. The third year of challenge is underway now and the summit will take place in in-person format in conjunction with flagship conference Globecom 2023 in Malaysia. More details about the CTU conference can be found at ctu.ieee.org. Vint Cerf is among one of the Industry advisory members. After the successful two years of challenge and summits, many foundations, namely Lemelsohn, USAID have come forward to support this activity. Google, Facebook, Microsoft are also among the patrons for this conference. Many of the ideas from challenge are being standardized right now.

Conference Chair and Steering Committee Chair for IEEE Sarnoff Symposium

As the chair for IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey Section Ashutosh continued to spearhead the IEEE Sarnoff Symposiums. He served as conference chair in 2009 and has served as its steering committee chair until 2017.

Established IEEE Future Networks Workshops in various INGR Roadmap Topics – sustained contribution for 4 years

As the chair of IEEE Future Networks Ashutosh initiated various IEEE Future Networks Virtual Workshops for the 14 technology roadmap working groups towards 5G. These workshops were free and gave chance to people around the world to contribute in an open manner. Ashutosh worked with the co-chairs of various working groups and helped to organize these workshops. Each of these workshops lasted for about two days. Many of the speakers from these workshops also contributed to Tech Focus within Publications working group in Future Networks.

Founding Co-Chair for IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (2011 – 2023)

Ashutosh co-established the unique IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference in 2011 and has continued to serve as Co-Chair since then. This conference has been co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Education Society chapter of Chapter of Princeton / Central Jersey Section and has been taking place at Princeton University for the last ten years. Ashutosh continued to hold this conference in virtual mode even during Covid without any interruption IEEE ISEC conference allowed the students from High School to publish their papers and posters in IEEE Xplore. Since this is held on Saturday, this also allowed the parents, teachers and siblings of the high school students to attend. Some of the past keynote speakers include Congressman Russ Holt, past IEEE presidents, Princeton University professor Vince Poor, executives from various industries, NASA scientists among others. More details about this conference can be found at https://ewh.ieee.org/conf/stem/. Going forward this conference will take place at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in alternate years.

Summary of Leadership roles ComSoc sponsored Conferences

Besides the conferences that Ashutosh helped establish, chair, promote, Ashutosh has also contributed to many of the ComSoc sponsored conferences and workshops as below in various capacities,

2018 – 2024 – Founding Co-Chair IEEE Future Networks World Forum
2015 – 2024 – Founder of 5G Summits. Led and organized more than 90 5G summits around the world
2021 IEEE ICC 21 Workshop Co-Chair
2019 IEEE Globecom Industry Program Co-Chair
2022 IEEE Globecom Industry Forum & Exhibits Co-Chair
2018 – 2024 Chair, IEEE 5G Workshop on First Responder and Tactical Networks
2021- 2024, Chair, IEEE Connecting The Unconnected Workshop
2021 General Co-Chair ACM/IEEE COMSNETS
2020 TPC Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE COMSNETS
2021 – TPC Co-Chair for IEEE Conference on Standards
2011-2024 Founding Co-Chair, IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference
2005 General Chair – IEEE Sarnoff Symposium
2008-2019 Steering Committee Chair, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium
2008 TPC Chair, IEEE IMSAA
2010 General Chair, IEEE IMSAA
2016 TPC Co-Chair, Soft5G
2013 TPC Co-Chair, Global Wireless Summit
2011-2012 TPC Co-Chair World Wide Security and Mobility Conference
IEEE IMSAA 2009 – TPC Co-Chair, IMSAA 2010 – General Chair
TPC Member of several IEEE and ACM Conferences (e.g., ICC, Globecom, Infocom, Mobicom, WoWMoM, MobiSec, Mobisys, MILCOM)
World Wide Security and Mobility Conference – TPC Co-chair (2011-2012)

Other summary of contributions

2023 – Chair, IEEE Future Network Technical Community
2016 – 2023, Founding Co-Chair, IEEE Future Networks Initiative
2023 – Present, Chair, IEEE ComSoc Chapter of Baltimore Section
2023 – Industry and Exhibits Chair, IEEE Globecom
2022 – IEEE USA George McClure Citation of Honor
2022 – IEEE ComSoc NA Region Exceptional Service Aard
2022 – ACM Distinguished Member
2021 – Present Co-Chair and co-architect for IEEE 5G/6G Innovation Testbed
2021 – Present Chair, IEEE Industry Connection on Open RAN
2021-2024 Founding Co-Chair for IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge and Summit
2021 – Workshop Co-Chair, IEEE ICC
2021 – Present Founding Co-Chair for ACM Baltimore Chapter
2021 – Present, ACM Distinguished Lecturer
2021 – General Co-Chair IEEE/ACM COMSNETS
2020 – IEEE Fellow
2020 – Present Co-Chair IEEE Connecting The Unconnected Working Group
2020 – 2025 Member-At-Large IEEE Communications Society
2020 – TPC Co-Chair, IEEE/ACM COMSNETS
2018 – 2024 Founding Co-Chair of IEEE 5G World Forum/Future Networks World Forum
2017 – 2022 Founding Co-Chair for IEEE Future Networks Initiative
2017 – Present Co-Chair Security Working Group
2017- 2020 IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
2017-2020 IEEE Communications Society’s Distinguished Lecturer
2016 – TPC Co-Chair, Soft5G
2016/2017 Tutorials/Panel Co-Chair IEEE SDN/NFV Conference
2015 -2019 Associate Technical Editor, Guest Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine
2015 – Patron Chair IEEE NFV/SDN Conference,
2015 – Tutorial Co-Chair, Global Wireless Summit
2014 – IEEE EPICS Award from Education Activity Boards
2014 – 2019 Director of Industry Outreach, ComSoc
2014 – MGA Liaison History Committee
2014 – IEEE EPICS Award from Education Activity Boards