[MDPI Webinar] World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 16 May 2025
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Welcome Message
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (#WTISD) 2025, held on 17 May, marks 160 years since the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Agency for Digital Technologies. WTISD is celebrated to raise awareness of the potential that the internet and other information and communications technologies (ICTs) have to transform societies and economies.This year’s theme focuses on promoting gender equality in digital spaces to foster the equitable and inclusive use of telecommunications and ICTs. While global internet use is gradually approaching gender parity, significant gaps remain, particularly in developing countries. Bridging the digital divide is essential to ensure the benefits of emerging technologies are accessible to all.
Date: 16 May 2025
Time: 10:00 am CEST | 4:00 pm CST (Asia)
Webinar ID: 819 5119 6933
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
School of Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia;
Currently he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia and is Discipline Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. He is Director of International Engagement of School of Engineering. His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network, IoT etc. He has supervised over 60 postgraduate students and over 200 Honours students. He has examined over 80 postgraduate theses.
He has published over 500 papers in different international journals and conference proceedings, written ten books and sixty two book chapters and edited eighteen conference proceedings. He has also edited forty five books with Springer-Verlag and thirty five journal special issues. He has organized over 25 international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Programme Chair. He has delivered 455 presentations including keynote, invited, tutorial and special lectures.
He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India), a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors journal, and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, IEEE Review of Biomedical Engineering, IoP Measurement Science and Technology. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council from 2017 to 2022. He is the Founding chair of IEEE IMS NSW chapter and was the Founding chair of IEEE NSW Sensors Council Chapter
Prof. Dr. Sotirios K. Goudos
ELEDIA@AUTH, School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;
Sotirios K. Goudos is a Professor in the Department of Physics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. Prof. Goudos is the director of the ELEDIA@AUTH lab member of the ELEDIA Research Center Network. His research interests include antenna and microwave structure design, evolutionary algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, and semantic web technologies. Prof. Goudos is the director of the ELEDIA@AUTH lab and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center Network. Prof. Goudos is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Telecom open access journal (MDPI publishing). Prof. Goudos is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE ACCESS and IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society. He is Section Editor-in-Chief in the Information and Communication Technologies Section of the Technologies open access journal. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Electronics open access journal (Microwave and Wireless Communications Section) and the editorial board of the Microwave open access journal.He is the author of the book Emerging Evolutionary Algorithms for Antennas and Wireless Communications, Institution of Engineering & Technology, 2021.
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Guest Editors: Dr. Danaisy Prado-Alvarez and Dr. Jose F. Monserrat
Deadline for submission: 30 November 2025
Information Security in Telecommunication Systems
Guest Editor: Dr. Xuyang Jing, Dr. Xian Li and Dr. Cong Wang
Deadline for submission: 20 December 2025
Sensing and Wireless Communications
Guest Editor: Dr. Tien M. Nguyen
Deadline for submission: 28 December 2025
5G and Next-Generation Communication Technologies
Guest Editor: Dr. Chunyi Peng and Prof. Dr. Chiyu Li
Deadline for submission: 31 January 2026