Agenda

Invited Talk

• Wednesday, 6 May 2026
• 10:00-11:00
• EEMCS, Lecture Hall Ampere

Enabling 6G Research and Deployment with the NVIDIA AI Aerial Platform

Abstract: Megatrends for 6G wireless include softwarization, virtualization, artificial intelligence, cloudification, the continuing theme of disaggregation, and digital twins for designing, optimizing, and operating networks. NVIDIA has been developing hardware and software technologies to enable this ambitious vision for 6G, empowering the research community, wireless system developers, and network operators. In this talk, Dr. Dick will provide an overview of NVIDIA platforms and tools for 5G Advanced and 6G research, highlight several examples of how the research community is using these tools, and describe a workflow that takes researchers from algorithm innovation to benchmarking on a real-time over-the-air testbed.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Chris Dick is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA working on the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to 5G and 6G wireless. He is part of the team developing algorithms, system architecture, design methodologies, and real-time over-the-air testbeds to enable the path from AI/ML simulation flows to real-time operation. His research interests include 6G architecture, ML model architecture, channel coding, design flows for GPU signal processing systems, and digital front-end technology for cellular systems, with a particular focus on ML algorithms for RF signal processing. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley in 1998, he was a tenured academic in Melbourne, Australia for 13 years. He has over 250 publications and 100 patents. From 1998 to 2020, he was a Fellow and the DSP Chief Architect at Xilinx. He currently chairs the AI-for-RAN Working Group in the AI-RAN Alliance and serves on the Board of Directors of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance. In 2018, he received the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication for his research in full-duplex wireless communication.