Chair
Assoc. Prof. Ting Liu Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Co-Chairs

Prof. Weiqiang Tan Guangzhou University, China		Prof. Chunguo Li Southeast University, China

The special session explores the transformative role of AI/ML in advancing wireless physical layer design, with a focus on emerging systems like massive MIMO and beyond. As wireless communications evolve toward 6G, traditional model-based approaches struggle with complex, high-dimensional, and real-time challenges. This event highlights innovative AI-driven solutions for enhancing physical layer performance to build more efficient, adaptive, and scalable systems. Bringing together academia and industry, it fosters discussions on novel ML techniques for core physical layer problems, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and practical implementation. Related topics include, but are not limited to:
(1) Machine learning-based signal detection, equalization, demodulation, and interference management
(2) AI-driven CSI compression, feedback, reconstruction, and sparse recovery
(3) Hybrid analog-digital processing and transceiver design enhanced by machine learning
(4) Digital twins for simulation, testing, and optimization of wireless physical layers
(5) Lightweight AI models for efficient deployment on resource-constrained wireless devices
(6) Joint design and optimization of physical layer with emerging paradigms (e.g., integrated communication and computing)
(7) Federated and distributed learning approaches for collaborative physical layer optimization
(8) Adversarial training and robustness enhancements for AI models in physical layer applications

Submission Link: https://www.zmeeting.org/submission/ictc2026 (Choose Special Session 4 to Submit)

Special Session Organizers Biography:

Ting Liu received the B.S. degree in electronic information engineering, M.S. degree in signal and information processing from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2011 and 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from the Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2019. From 2017 to 2018, she was a visiting scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, USA. She is currently with the faculty of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. Her current research interests include massive IoT communications, cell-free communications, and covert communications.

Weiqiang Tan is currently a Professor of Computer Science of Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China. He received the Ph.D. degree from the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2017; From 2016 to 2017, he was a joint PhD student with the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. From 2020 to 2021, he was with the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City working as a Postdoctoral fellow. He has expertise in big data wireless transmission, millimeter wave communication, intelligent Internet of things and other fields. He has participated in the rapid development and verification platform software of massive MIMO system and has rich practical engineering experience. So far, He won the National Natural Science Foundation of China in august 2018 and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China in august 2020，he has published in excess of 40 papers on wireless communication field, including 2 papers highly cited by ESI. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Best Young Researcher Award of Guangzhou University and the best paper award of young scholars in the Journal of communication and information network in 2021.

Chunguo Li received the bachelor’s degree in wireless communications from Shandong University in 2005, and Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from Southeast University in 2010. In July 2010, he joined as a Faculty Member with Southeast University, where he was an Associate Professor from 2012 to 2016 and a Full Professor since 2017. From June 2012 to June 2013, he was the Postdoctor with Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. From July 2013 to August2014, he was with the DSL laboratory of Stanford University as Visiting Associate Professor. From August 2017 to July 2019, he was the adjunct professor of Xizang Minzu University under the supporting Tibet program organized by China National Human Resources Ministry. He is the Fellow of IET, Fellow of China Institute of Communications (CIC), Chair of lEEE Computational Intelligence Society Nanjing Chapter, and Chair of Advisory Committee for Instruments industry in Jiangsu province. He is currently a Subject Editor for Journal of The Franklin Institute since 2025, and is serving as an Editor for lEEE Transactions on Communications since 2025. He has served as Associate Editor for a couple of international journals and as session chair for many international conferences. His research interests are in cell-free massive MIMO networks, AI-based wireless communications, information theories, and AI-based audio signal processing.