NextGCom 2026 in Kefalonia: Session Chair and Paper Presentation
I attended the 2026 Next Generation Communications conference (NextGCom 2026), held on 28-30 September 2026 at the Ionian University in Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece.
On 29 September I chaired Special Session 3: Integrated Sensing and AI-Driven Communication in 6G Perceptive Mobile Networks, which brought together four papers on sensing-aided and AI-driven physical-layer design for 6G. In the same session I presented our paper:
Semantically-Informed Predictive Control for Autonomous UAV Connectivity in Urban Environments
Evangelos Vlachos, Dimitrios Tsourounis, and Aryan Kaushik
The work fuses radar sensing with visual semantic classification into an effective capacity metric, so that a UAV path planner avoids both hard blockers and unreliable multipath zones in mmWave urban links.
Our group also presented Geometry-Aware Regularization for Deep-Unfolded MIMO-OTFS Detection (Nikolaos Ntavanelos and Evangelos Vlachos) in the technical sessions.
This work is part of the EUSOME project, funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe Grant Agreement 101187121.
Dr. Evangelos Vlachos
Tenure-track Researcher
My research focuses on Cyber-Physical Systems, UAVs, and 6G networks, bridging the gap between theory and real-world implementation.