K. Huseynov, L.V. Cakir, K. Duran, Y. Yigit, S.R. Kusu, A. Duzgun, and B. Canberk received the 2025 Honorary Mention Award with their work ‘Distributed Digital Twin as a Service (DDTaaS) for Energy-Aware Radio Access Network Management’ in the IEEE Communications Society Student Competition on the Communications Technology Changing the World, November 2025. 

B. Canberk gave a talk titled ‘𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 (𝐃𝐓𝐚𝐚𝐒) 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬’ at the IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals Webinar Series, 12 November 2025. link

B. Canberk will give an online talk on ‘Distributed Digital Twin as a Service (DDTaaS) for AI-Native 6G Networks’ at one6G, 18 November 2025.

B. Canberk gave a talk titled ‘Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS) Platform for Next-Generation Intelligent Systems’ at the Public Event on Development and Applications of Digital Twins, IEEE UK and Ireland Section, London, UK, 30 October 2025. link

B. Canberk led the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Edinburgh Napier University and the Turkish Consulate General Education Attaché Office in Edinburgh under the Directorate General of Higher Education and Abroad Education of Türkiye, 29 October 2025. link

B. Canberk led the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Edinburgh Napier University and Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, on 28 October 2025.

K. Huseynov received 1st Prize for his presentation on ‘Digital Twin as a Service for Network Infrastructure Management’ in the 3-Minute Presentation Competition, Edinburgh Napier University, 22 October 2025. link

B. Canberk gave a talk titled ‘Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS): A Platform Vision for Real-Time 6G Network Intelligence’ at the One6G Summit,  Bologna, Italy, 19 September 2025. link

B. Canberk is appointed as sub-panel member for Sub-Panel 12: Engineering, Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. link

B. Canberk gave a workshop opening keynote speech titled ‘Digital Twin as a Service Platform and Applications for Next Generation Edge Networks’ at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkey, 1 September 2025.

B. Canberk has been promoted to Area Editor in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, under the following research topics: Intelligent Communication Modelling, Operation and Digital Twin. link

B. Canberk gave a conference opening keynote speech titled ‘Digital Twins at Scale: Challenges and Opportunities in a Hyper-Connected World‘ at IEEE  International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), Istanbul, Turkey, 22 July 2025. link

B. Canberk was invited to Friends of Cheddar Day at CHEDDAR Hub, London, UK, 15 July 2025. link1 link2

Y. Yigit has been awarded the Fellow (FHEA) status by Advance HE, under the UK Professional Standards Framework, 10 June 2025. link

B. Canberk received the UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor Award from the UK Council for Graduate Education, 9 June 2025. link

B. Canberk gave a workshop opening keynote speech titled ‘6G enhanced Digital Twin Platforms for Next Generation Communication Networks at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 8 June 2025. link

Y. Yigit has been accepted to the second stage of the IEEE ComSoc Four Minute Thesis (4MT) Competition and awarded a travel grant for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 8-12 June 2025.

Our workshop titled ‘Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications’ is accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 8–12 June 2025. link