由信息与通信工程学院主办的“信通论坛”活动特别邀请奥地利克拉根福大学（University of Klagenfurt, Austria）Andrea M. Tonello教授来校作学术交流。具体安排如下，欢迎广大师生参加。
一、主 题：An Information Theoretic Approach to Generative AI for Communication Challenges
二、主讲人：Prof. Andrea M. Tonello，University of Klagenfurt, Austria
三、时 间：2025年10月16日（周四）16:00-17:00
四、地 点：清水河科研楼C区218
五、主持人：信息与通信工程学院 Daniele Inserra副教授
六、内容简介：
This lecture deals with generative AI and its application to communications following an information theoretic approach. In particular, it focuses on a timely topic, i.e., generative AI and ML models for signal analysis (learning) and synthesis (generation). The pivotal role played by the estimation of the channel input/output mutual information is highlighted. It then considers several communication challenges, and illustrates neural solutions derived from a mathematical formulation of optimality criteria. Several experimental results are presented, including synthetic channel emulation, decoding in unknown channels, classification for radio sensing and network diagnostics, end-to-end system design approaching capacity, and channel capacity estimation.
七、主讲人简介：
Andrea M. Tonello is professor of embedded communication systems at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He has been associate professor at the University of Udine, Italy, technical manager at Bell Labs-Lucent Technologies, USA, and managing director of Bell Labs Italy where he was responsible for research activities on cellular technology. He has a part-time associate professor post at the University of Udine, Italy since 2020. Dr. Tonello received the PhD in electrical and telecommunication engineering from the University of Padova, Italy (2002). He was the recipient of several awards including: the Lucent Bell Labs Recognition of Excellence Award (1999), the RAENG (UK) Distinguished Visiting Fellowship (2010), the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer Award (2011-15), the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer Award (2018-19), the IEEE ComSoc TC-PLC Interdisciplinary and Research Award (2019), the IEEE ComSoc TC-PLC Outstanding Service Award (2019), the Chair of Excellence from UC3M (2019-20), and the IEEE ComSoc TC-SGC Outstanding Service Award (2025). He was also the co-recipient of 10 best paper awards. He was associate editor of IEEE TVT, IEEE TCOM, IEEE ACCESS, IET Smart Grid, Elsevier Journal of Energy and Artificial Intelligence. He was also guest co-editor for IEEE JSAC and IEEE Communication Magazine. He was general chair of the IEEE Smart Grid Communications Conference (2014 and 2024) and IEEE Int. Symposium on Power Line Communications (2011). He has been TPC co-chair or track co-chair in a number of IEEE conferences. Dr. Tonello was PI in national, EU projects and industry cooperation projects. He served as project evaluator in international founding agencies. He was the chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on PLC (2014-18), the chair of the Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2020-23) and the director for industry outreach in the IEEE ComSoc board of governors (2020-21).
