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Conference Programme

The conference programme will start first thing in the morning of Monday 2nd February 2026. If you are flying into Christchurch to join us, we recommend arriving over the weekend prior.

The conference will finish around lunchtime on Wednesday 4th February (about 1pm) - so plan your onward travel for late Wednesday or later in the week. Depending upon interest, we may arrange a social outing on the Wednesday afternoon. New Zealand is a fabulous place to explore, so you may like to stay a bit longer to see some sights ...

The more social aspects of the workshop include welcome drinks on Monday evening, a spit-roast/BBQ lunch on Monday, and conference dinner on Tuesday evening. These are included within the registration package. Morning teas and afternoon teas are also catered. Lunch is provided Tuesday. (NB: Wednesday you will need to arrange your own lunch, and Wednesday afternoon is an excellent opportunity for some more informal networking with conference delegates by exploring Christchurch and surrounds as a tourist).

The conference programme appears below - exact schedules are subject to change.

Monday 2 February 2026

Room E5 – Ground Floor, Rāta Building, University of Canterbury, Ilam Campus.

Time Session
08:15 Registrations
09:00 – 09:10 Conference Welcome
Prof. Rua Murray, University of Canterbury
09:10 – 10:10 Keynote 1 – Dr Seong-Lyun Kim (Yonsei University)
Hybrid Inference for Robot Manipulation over 5G-A Virtual/Open-RAN Network Platforms
10:10 – 11:00 Morning Tea & Poster Session
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote 2 – Dr Nahina Islam (CQ University)
AI-Driven Precision Agriculture: Intelligent Sensing, Autonomous Systems, and Scalable Field Intelligence
12:00 – 12:20 Technical Talk 1 – Dr Kai Wu (UTS)
ISAC for Environmental Sensing
12:20 – 13:30 Spit roast lunch - Rāta lawn (weather permitting)
13:30 – 14:30 Panel Discussion 1: 6G
Chair: Prof. Iain Collings (Macquarie University)
14:30 – 14:50 Industry tech talk - Sunny Wang & Alex Tseng (TMYTEK)
Towards 6G: Bridging Simulation and Emulation with a Ready-to-Use Experimental Testbed.
14:50 – 15:20 Afternoon Tea (Posters will still be available)
15:20 – 16:20 Keynote 3 – Andrew Zhang (UTS)
Passive Sensing
16:20 – 16:40 Technical Talk 2 – Dr Toby Tomkinson (University of Auckland)
What Goes Up Must Come Down… Slowly: Caching in LEO Constellations
16:40 – 17:00 Technical Talk 3 – Dr Adriel Kind (University of Canterbury)
Airborne Dynamically Positioned MIMO Arrays
17:00 Walk to Ilam Homestead

Poster Session

Monday 2 February 2026 – Morning Tea

P1 ISAC with Co-Prime Arrays: Virtual Aperture Sensing and Downlink Communication
Dr Jing Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
P2 PAC Codes Meet CRC Polar Codes
Dr Xinyi Gu, UNSW
P3 A Game-Theoretic Communication Framework for Justifiable Trust: Modelling Strategic Interactions between Regulators, Manufacturers, and Multimedia Agents
Dr William Liu, Wuhan University of Communications
P4 When Random Access Meets the MIMO Downlink
Dr Saman Atapattu, RMIT University
P5 Time Domain Zero-Padding (TZP) Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing and its Low-Complexity Equalization
Dr Cheng Shen, UNSW
P6 Fluid Antennas and Near-Field Channels
Dr Isaac Bühler, Victoria University of Wellington
P7 Causal Conditional Directed Information in a Point Process Network
Dr Xinhui Rong, University of Melbourne
P8 A Novel One-Tap Equalizer for Zero-Padded AFDM System over Doubly Selective Channels
Dr Chenyang Zhang, UNSW
P9 Loss of Subcarrier Orthogonality Caused by Doppler in OFDM
Dr Hamish Shaw, UNSW
P10 New Tools for Tracking Small Invertebrates Using Harmonic Radar
Dr Graeme Woodward, University of Canterbury

Tuesday 3 February 2026

Room E5 – Ground Floor, Rāta Building, University of Canterbury, Ilam Campus.

Time Session
08:30 Doors Open
09:00 – 09:10 Announcements
09:10 – 10:10 Keynote 4 – Dr Vish Ponnampalam (Google)
Signals, Silicon, and Scale: From Communication Theory to Global AI Infrastructure
10:10 – 10:30 Technical Talk 4 – Dr Jinho Choi (University of Adelaide)
Uplink ISAC in 6G Networks with Massive MIMO
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote 5 – Chris Hill (Aurora)
Spectrum Allocation and Management in Geostationary Orbit above 3GHz
12:00 – 12:20 Technical Talk 5 – Dr Zhouygou Gu (SUTD)
Learning Large-Scale Time-Varying Graphs for Laser Inter-Satellite Link Management
12:20 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Panel Discussion 2: AI in Wireless Communications (Beyond the Hype)
Chair: Prof. Philippa Martin (University of Canterbury)
14:30 – 14:50 Technical Talk 6 – Dr Jingge Zhu (University of Melbourne)
Beyond Identification: Boolean Function Computation via Channels
14:50 – 15:10 Technical Talk 7 – Dr Matthias Frey (University of Melbourne)
Online Prediction of Stochastic Sequences with High-Probability Regret Bounds
15:10 – 15:40 Afternoon Tea
15:40 – 16:40 Keynote 6 – Dr Konstanty Bialkowski (University of Queensland)
Enabling Passive Radar via Low-Cost Hardware and Multistatic Deployments
16:40 – 17:00 Technical Talk 8 – Dr Akram Shafie (UNSW)
Enabling One-Tap Equalizers over Doubly Selective Channels with AFDM

Wednesday 4 February 2026

Room E5 – Ground Floor, Rāta Building, University of Canterbury, Ilam Campus.

Time Session
08:30 Doors Open
09:00 – 09:10 Announcements
09:10 – 10:10 Keynote 7 – Prof. Pete Smith (Victoria University of Wellington)
Lost in Space – The Frontiers of Fluid Antenna Systems
10:10 – 10:30 Technical Talk 9 – Dr Andrei Mogilnikov (University of Twente)
Design Challenges and Functionality of Passive Harmonic RFID
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:00 Tutorial: Delay-Doppler Modulation
A/Prof. Jun Tong & Prof. Jinhong Yuan (UNSW)
12:00 – 12:20 Technical Talk 10 – Dr Deepak Mishra (UNSW)
Covert Wireless Sensing for Future Communication Systems
12:20 – 12:50 Panel Discussion 3: Enticing Students Back to Communications Electives
Chair: Prof. Brian Krongold (University of Melbourne)

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