IEEE WCNC 2027 TwinNetApp Workshop

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Dr. Kubra Duran is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (SCEBE) at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, where she also received her PhD. Her research focuses on Digital Twin Networks and Intelligent Internet of Things. She has five years of experience in the telecommunications sector. She is the recipient of consecutive Best Paper Awards (2023 and 2024) for her IEEE Transactions publications, granted by SCEBE. During her PhD, she was awarded the prestigious Google DeepMind Scholarship, which is granted only to highly successful female researchers working in communications. She has been actively involved in several IEEE conferences as an Organizing Committee Member and a TPC Member. She served as General Co-Chair in several workshops, including the 4th Workshop on Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications (TwinNetApp) at IEEE ICC 2026, the 1st and 2nd Workshops in Systems and Technologies for IT/OT Integration in Industry 4/5.0 Environments (SITE) at IEEE CAMAD 2025 – 2024. She served as a TPC Member at IEEE ICC 2026 – 2024, IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 – 2023, IEEE PIMRC 2025, and IEEE WCNC 2024.

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Prof. Berk Canberk is a Full Professor and Head of Subject (Department Chair) for Cybersecurity and Systems Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. His research focuses on AI-powered Digital Twins, IoT communication, and Smart Wireless Networks, spanning Technology Readiness Levels 1 to 6. He leads the Broadband Communication Research Group (www.bcrg.uk), where he currently supervises 2 postdoctoral researchers, 5 PhD students, and 1 visiting professor. He serves as one of the 15 Area Editors for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (The journal with highest Impact Factor of 46.7 in IEEE), Lead Editor of the IEEE ComSoc Best Readings in Digital Twins, Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, and as Guest Editor in Digital Twins at the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Network Magazine. He has been actively involved in several IEEE conferences as a General Chair and Organising Committee Member. He served as General Co-Chair of IEEE CAMAD 2023 and the TwinNetApp Workshops at IEEE ICC 2025 and 2026, IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 and IEEE WCNC 2025. He has also served as TPC Co-Chair of IEEE CloudNet 2026 and as TPC Track Chair for the CQRM Symposium at IEEE ICC 2026, the AI for IoT track at IEEE AIoT 2026.

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Prof. Octavia Dobre s a Full Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair with Memorial University, Canada. Her research interests include technologies for future wireless networks and optical and underwater communications. She has authored and co-authored over 600 internationally referred journal and conference papers in these areas. She serves as the VP Publications of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). She was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Open Journal of the ComSoc and the EiC of the IEEE Communications Letters, as well as a senior editor and guest editor with numerous reputable journals. She served as General Chair, Technical Chair, Symposia Chair, and Tutorial Chair at various flagship conferences. She was the inaugural chair of the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering standing committee, a member-at-large of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and Board of Governors of the IEEE ComSoc and Chair of the Discovery Grant Committee (Electrical and Computer Engineering). She was a Fulbright Scholar, Royal Society Scholar, and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE ComSoc. She obtained several Best Paper Awards including the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Engineering Institute of Canada.

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Prof. Marco Di Renzo a Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at Kings’s College London, UK. Also, he is a CNRS Research Director and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group in the Laboratory of Signals and Systems at Paris-Saclay University – CNRS and CentraleSupelec, France. He holds the 2023 France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT (Finland), the 2023 Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and is the 2024 Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation. His recent research awards include the 2022 IEEE COMSOC Outstanding Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Heinrich Hertz Award, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Technical Recognition Award from the Signal Processing and Computing, the 2024 IEEE COMSOC Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2024 Best Tutorial Paper Award, and the 2024 IEEE ComSoc Marconi Prize Paper Award. He served as the TPC Chair in IEEE ICC 2026. He served as the EiC of IEEE Communications Letters in 2019-2023. Currently, he serves in the IEEE ComSoc as a Voting Member of the Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee, as the Chair of the Publications Misconduct Ad Hoc Committee, and as the Director of Journals.