Conference organizing committees

General Chair:

• Mark Weichold, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
• Mounir Hamdi, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Technical Program Chair:

• Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
• Mohamed Abdallah, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
• George K. Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Khalifa University, UAE

Advisory Board

• Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Kuwait University, Kuwait
• Khalid A. Qaraqe, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
• Jinsong Wu, Bell Labs, China
• David Grace, University of York, UK
• Naofal Al-Dhahir, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
• Kaushik Chowdhury, Northeastern University, USA

Special Session Chair:

Alhussein Abouzeid, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Panel Chair:

Maziar Nekovee, Samsung, UK

Publication Chair:

Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

Tutorial Chair:

Mohamed Nafie, Nile University, Egypt

Exhibitions and Demos Chair:

Majid Butt, Qatar University, Qatar

Web Chair:

İslam Şafak Bayram, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar

Local Arrangements:

• Carol Nader, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
• Mohamed Kashef, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

Track Chairs:

Track 1: Dynamic Spectrum Access/Management

Mohammad Shaqfeh, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

Track 2: Networking Protocols for CR

• Tamer Khattab, Qatar University, Qatar
• Amr Mohamed, Qatar University, Qatar

Track 3: Modeling and Theory

• Zouheir Rezki, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
• Syed Ali Raza Zaidi, University of Leeds, UK

Track 4: HW Architecture and Implementations

• Ahmed El-Tawil, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine, USA

Track 5: Next Generation of Cognitive Networks

• Muhammad Ali Imran, CCSR/5G Innovation Centre University of Surrey, UK
• Richard Demo Souza, Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba - PR - Brazil

Track 6: Standards and Business Models

• Stanislav Fillin, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
• Stephen J. Shellhammer, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA
• Markus Dominik Mueck, INTEL Mobile Communications, Germany

Track 7: Emerging Applications for Cognitive Networks

• Octavia A. Dobre, Memorial University, Canada
• Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan