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WOMEN IN TECH GLOBAL CONFERENCE 2022

Yan Chen

Senior Expert of Wireless Communications, Huawei at Ph.D. degrees from Chu Kochen Honored College and Institute of Information and Communication Engineering

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"6G The Next Horizon – From Connected People and Things to Connected Intelligence"

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Session: 6G The Next Horizon – From Connected People and Things to Connected Intelligence

Welcome aboard the Huawei 6G journey! 6G is the next Horizon of innovations. In this journey, we would like to take you through a future 6G world beyond 2030. Different usage scenarios will be presented, showing a transformation from connected people, connected things, to connected intelligence. 6G will serve as a distributed neural network of the whole society and provide communication links with integrated sensing and AI capabilities to fuse the physical, cyber, and biological worlds. This in turn will lay a solid foundation for a future with Intelligence-of-Everything. Six technology pillars of 6G will be introduced together with the research challenges and opportunities, they are native AI, networked sensing, extreme connectivity, integrated non-terrestrial networks, trustworthiness, and sustainability.

Join Yan Chen from Huawei Technologies Canada for a 6G Journey towards 2030 and beyond. Be a contributor that jointly define the vision of 6G. Yan Chen, who has worked at the company since 2009 and experienced the whole process of 5G from early stage research and prototyping to standardization and commercialization, will provide an insider’s look into the 6G vision, specifically its usage scenarios and future technology trends that defines 6G an era of connected intelligence.


Key Takeaways

  • Get onboard of Huawei’s 6G journey and jointly discuss the vision of 6G usage scenarios
  • Get to know the future technology trends and research opportunities towards 2030


Bio

Yan Chen received her B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Chu Kochen Honored College and Institute of Information and Communication Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. She was a visiting researcher at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2008 to 2009. She joined Huawei Technologies Shanghai in 2009 and from 2010 to 2013, she was the project manager and technical leader of Huawei internal Green Radio project studying energy efficient solutions for wireless networks and also served as technical leader of the Green Transmission Technology (GTT) project at GreenTouchTM Consortium. Since 2013, she is one of the key technical leaders on 5G air interface design and the related 3GPP standardization in Huawei, focusing on multiple access including NOMA transceivers, grant-free massive access, and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications. Now she is leading the 6G vision study in Huawei. Her research interests include 6G use cases and key capabilities, new enabling technologies and architectures such as integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), network AI, next generation of massive access, as well as system level evaluation methodologies for new usage scenarios. She won the IEEE Communication Society Award for Advances in Communication in 2017.

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