Our workshop titled ‘Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications’ is accepted to the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Panama City, Panama, 5-8 April 2027. Link

B. Canberk is the TPC Track Chair of AI for IoT Communications and Networking at The IEEE Annual Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things (IEEE AIoT), Japan, 14-16 December 2026. link

B.Canberk is TPC Co-Chair of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), Athens, Greece, 19-21 October 2026. link

B. Canberk was invited to give a seminar on ‘Agentic AI-enabled Digital Twin Systems‘ at the OzU EE Research Connect Event, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey, 7 October 2026. link

K. Duran received the Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award from the IEEE Hyper-Intelligence Technical Committee (HITC) with her PhD thesis titled ‘Digital Twin for IoT-based Smart City Applications: Modelling, Communication and Analysis Perspectives’, October 2026.

Our tutorial titled ‘Digital Twin-as-a-Service (DTaaS) for IoT and 6G: Design Principles, Performance Metrics and Real-Time Intelligence‘ is accepted to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC2026-Fall), Boston, MA, USA, 6-9 September, 2026. link

B. Canberk is the Network Architecture, Algorithm, Protocol, and Evaluation Track Co-Chair at The International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 27-30 July 2026. link

B. Canberk is the Guest Editor for “Special Issue on AI-Empowered Cognitive Digital Twin for Future Network Ecosystems” at IEEE Network Magazine, June 2026. link.

B. Canberk will give an invited keynote speech on ‘Agentic AI-Enabled Digital Twinning‘ at the IEEE VTC-Spring 2026: The 3rd Workshop on Synergizing Digital Twins and Pervasive Intelligence for Next-Generation IoT/IoV, Nice, France, 9 June 2026. link

K. Duran recieved the Best Dissertation Award from the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) with her PhD thesis titled ‘Digital Twin for IoT-based Smart City Applications: Modelling, Communication and Analysis Perspectives’, June 2026. link

K. Huseynov has been awarded a Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance Postgraduate Research (SICSA PGR) Travel Grant to attend the IEEE International Conference on Communications and present at the SICSA PhD Conference in Glasgow in June 2026. link

Our workshop titled ‘Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications’ is accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, UK, 24-28 May 2026. link

B. Canberk was the Communications QoS, Reliability and Modeling Track Co-Chair in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 24-28 May 2026. link

B. Canberk gave an invited keynote speech on ‘Distributed Digital Twin as a service (DDTaaS) for AI-Native 6G Networks’ at the International Graduate Research Symposium (IGRS’26), Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 11-13 May 2026. link

L. V. Cakir gave a talk on ‘Distributed Network Digital Twins for Synchronization Scalability‘ at  École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) Montréal, as part of IEEE Young Professionals Lunch & Learn events, 12 May 2026. link

Our workshop on ‘Digital Twins and RIS for Next-Generation Wireless Systems‘ for the UUKi-Funded UK-France Collaboration Project on Generative AI-enabled Digital Twin and RIS for Next Generation Wireless Systems was held at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, on 27 March 2026. link

Y. Yigit has received the 2nd Best Postgraduate Research Paper Award of 2025 from Edinburgh Napier University for her recent study, ‘Graph-Based Digital Twin Blueprint for Securing 6G Local Area Networks‘, published in IEEE Wireless Communications, 25 March 2026. link

B. Canberk is a member of the EPSRC Frontiers of ICT Working Group – Frontier 5. Driving Distributed and Complex Systems Research in the UK, 16 February 2026.

B. Canberk has been appointed as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals Committee (2026–2027), 10 February 2026.

B. Canberk has been appointed as Chair of Quantum Enabled Security Industry Community (QES IC) in the IEEE ComSoc Industry Community Board (ICB), 10 February 2026, link.