Abstract

6G networks are poised to be AI-native and the integration of AI into the fabric of 6G networks is expected to enable highly autonomous, intelligent, and adaptive communication systems. At the same time, it also introduces new challenges related to security, privacy, transparency, accountability, safety, and human oversight, in short, trustworthiness. This panel will explore how human-centric and trustworthy AI principles can be embedded into the design, deployment, and operation and adoption of secure 6G networks. The aim is to ensure that increasing network intelligence does not come at the expense of human values, safety, security, and/or control. The discussion will address key questions around the context of the 6G networks, role of humans, AI-driven automation, robustness, business, responsibility of AI, regulations and governance, and challenges.

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Agentic AI systems are rapidly evolving from passive inference engines into autonomous entities capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in dynamic environments. This shift introduces a new class of requirements for wireless networks, where connectivity is no longer limited to transporting data between users and remote computing units, but becomes an integral component of distributed intelligence and autonomous decision-making. This panel will explore how future wireless networks can support large-scale agentic AI ecosystems involving heterogeneous edge devices, e.g., personal devices, robots, and vehicles, that interact with cloud-native AI agents. Key topics include distributed inference and reasoning, semantic and goal-oriented communications, and the joint optimization of communication, computation, sensing, and control. The discussion will also investigate how agentic AI may reshape the design and operation of wireless networks themselves, enabling autonomous network management, adaptive resource allocation, and closed-loop optimization. Bringing together perspectives from wireless communications, networking, and artificial intelligence, the panel will identify key research challenges, architectural choices, and opportunities for agent-native wireless systems toward 6G.

Abstract

Future wireless networks are undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift, from enabling communication among humans to enabling real-time control of complex physical systems. While 5G enabled large-scale machine-type communications and data collection, 6G aims to transform this data into actionable intelligence for applications such as UAV swarms, collaborative robots, and cooperative autonomous vehicles. In this context, communication systems must evolve beyond throughput and latency metrics to support goal-oriented, semantics-aware, and ultra-reliable control loops, where rare failures can be catastrophic. This keynote presents a unified perspective on explainable and robust AI as a key enabler of control-centric 6G networks. First, we integrate extreme value theory with generative AI to model and predict rare but critical events for ultra-reliable communications. This approach moves beyond average-case analysis and provides a principled framework for reliability guarantees in next-generation networks. Second, we develop optimization-theoretic AI frameworks for robust and safe radio resource management in wireless networked control systems. By leveraging structure-aware and safety-constrained learning methods, these approaches bridge the gap between data-driven intelligence and control-theoretic guarantees. Third, we demonstrate the role of explainable AI in achieving robustness, interpretability, and trust in safety-critical scenarios. Overall, we argue that combining generative modeling, optimization, extreme value theory and explainable AI will be instrumental in moving beyond connectivity toward intelligent, reliable, and controllable 6G systems.

Biography

Sinem Coleri is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. She is also the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL) and director of Ford Otosan Automotive Technologies Laboratory. Sinem Coleri received the BS degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in 2000, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California Berkeley in 2002 and 2005. She worked as a research scientist in Wireless Sensor Networks Berkeley Lab under sponsorship of Pirelli and Telecom Italia from 2006 to 2009. Since September 2009, she has been a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. Her research interests are in 6G wireless communications and networking, AI-based wireless networks, machine-to-machine communications, wireless networked control systems and vehicular networks. Dr. Coleri has more than 150 publications with citations over 13000 (Google scholar profile). She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Science Award in 2024; N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022; TUBITAK Incentive Award and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2020; Outstanding Achievement Award by Higher Education Council in 2018; and Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist (TUBA-GEBIP) Award in 2015. Dr. Coleri currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief at the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. Dr. Coleri is an IEEE Fellow and AAIA Fellow.

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This keynote explores how 6G is being developed as a transformative, AI-native wireless platform to power the next generation of digital and virtual experiences. Discover how 6G is designed to harness advancements in multi-modal AI, extended reality (XR), edge computing, digital twins, and sensing technologies to unlock new use cases. Qualcomm's advanced research will enable immersive, intent and context-based experiences that were previously unimaginable at scale.

Biography

Amira Alloum, PhD, is Director of Engineering at Qualcomm France, where she leads the European 5G/6G Wireless Research Center. In this role, she drives advanced research in wireless communications, in close collaboration with leading academic institutions and major industrial partners across Europe. The center plays a strategic role in national and European innovation ecosystems, with strong involvement in flagship European 6G research programs. Amira has also led Qualcomm's 5G/6G Innovation Platform project in Lannion, a program funded under the France 2030 initiative, which aims to position France at the forefront of next generation mobile networks and to accelerate the industrial adoption of 5G and future 6G technologies. In parallel, she oversees Qualcomm's collaboration programs with universities and startups across the EMEA region, while continuing to contribute to academia through postgraduate supervision and lecturing on error correcting code applications for wireless systems. With over two decades of R&D experience spanning network operators, equipment vendors, and semiconductor companies, Amira has made significant contributions to 3GPP 5G standardization, LTE and DVB technologies, as well as to research in post quantum security and advanced receiver architectures for wireless and optical communications. Beyond her research and industrial activities, Amira is a member of the Scientific Council of the ARCEP Future Networks Committee and has contributed extensively to the IEEE through sustained leadership service, including chairing roles in several technical and organizational committees. She holds a PhD in Information Theory from Institut Mines Télécom / Télécom Paris and has an extensive publication and student supervision record in collaboration with leading international universities.