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Venue: Energy Advancement and Innovation Center (EAIC)
The Ohio State University
2281 Kenny Rd, Columbus, OH 43210

Technical Program - Saturday, June 6, 2026

Time Activity / Presentation
08:00 – 08:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session I: Intelligence and Semantic Architectures
08:10 – 08:30 Invited Talk 1: Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome)
Semantic Bridges: Making AI-Native Communication Explainable and Interoperable
08:30 – 08:50 Paper 1: Loris Bacaloni, Alessio Sacco
GLASS: Knowledge Graph-Guided for LLM-Assisted Semantic Communication
08:50 – 09:10 Invited Talk 2: Yin Sun (Auburn University)
Significance-Driven Semantic Communication
09:10 – 09:30 Paper 2: Yong Xiao, Haoran Zhou, Yujie Zhou, Marwan Krunz
SANEmerg: An Emergent Communication Framework for Semantic-Aware Agentic AI Networking
09:30 – 09:50 Invited Talk 3: Christopher Brinton (Purdue University)
Learning over Heterogeneous Networks: From Convergence Analysis to Intelligent Control
09:50 – 10:10 Paper 3: Aayam Adhikari, Hongzhi Guo, Ian Fuat Akyildiz
Cross-Modal Creation and Recovery for Semantic Mulsemedia Communication
10:10 – 10:30 Invited Talk 4: Bo Ji (Virginia Tech)
Multimodal Remote Inference
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Session II: Optimization, Control, and Sensing
11:00 – 11:20 Invited Talk 5: Laura Galluccio (University of Catania)
Semantic-Based Integrated Sensing and Communication in the IoUT
11:20 – 11:40 Paper 4: Nairong Liu, Yasemin Karacora, Aydin Sezgin, Amr Rizk
Age of Information-based Triggers for Cross-Layer Transmission Adaptation for Robust Networked Control
11:40 – 12:00 Invited Talk 6: Elif Uysal (Middle East Technical University)
On Sampling, Routing, and Preemption to Control Age of Information in Networks
12:00 – 12:20 Paper 5: Subhankar Banerjee, Stavros Mitrolaris, Sennur Ulukus
Index-Based Scheduling for a Resource-Constrained Quantum Switch
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch Break