8 September - TWAS Distinguished Speaker Webinar Series on AI and Data Science: Prof. Sinem Çöleri

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Dear ICTP Community,
To explore the opportunities, challenges, and growing impact of 
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science worldwide, particularly in 
the global South, TWAS has launched a monthly Distinguished Speaker 
Webinar Series on AI and Data Science.
The next webinar will feature Prof. Professor Sinem Çöleri, who will 
deliver a lecture titled ‘Beyond connectivity: explainable and robust AI 
for 6G control systems’.

The event will take place online via Zoom on 8 September 2026 at 4:00 pm 
ROME time, in a 40-minute online lecture format, followed by a 20-minute 
Q&A session. Register here 
<https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sQBQRA_dSwSboTc01iCd2w#/registration>.

*Abstract*: *Beyond connectivity: explainable and robust AI for 6G 
control systems
*Future wireless networks are undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift 
from connecting humans and machines to enabling real-time control of 
complex physical systems. While 5G enabled massive machine-type 
communications and large-scale data acquisition, 6G is expected to 
transform this data into actionable intelligence for applications such 
as UAV swarms, collaborative robots, and cooperative autonomous 
vehicles. This talk presents a unified perspective on explainable and 
robust AI as a key enabler of control-centric 6G networks. First, we 
combine extreme value theory with generative AI to model, learn, and 
predict rare but critical events. Second, we develop 
optimization-theoretic AI approaches for robust and safe radio resource 
management in wireless networked control systems. Third, we explore the 
role of explainable AI in enhancing robustness, interpretability, and 
trust in safety-critical wireless systems by making AI-driven decisions 
more transparent and verifiable. The talk highlights how the integration 
of extreme value theory, generative AI, optimization, and explainable AI 
can enable the transition from connectivity-centric networks toward 
intelligent, trustworthy, and controllable 6G systems.

*Who is Prof. Sinem Çöleri
*Sinem Çöleri is a professor in the Department of Electrical and 
Electronics Engineering at Koc University (KU), Istanbul, Türkiye. She 
is the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory, and director 
of Ford Otosan Automotive Technologies Laboratory. She worked as a 
research scientist in Wireless Sensor Networks Berkeley Lab under 
sponsorship of Pirelli and Telecom Italia, from 2006 to 2009. 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.

We hope you will join us for this event and take part in the discussion.

Best regards,

Giovanni Ortolani

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