TECoSA internal reserach seminar – ExPECA Testbed: Architecture, Evolution and AI-Driven Automation
Welcome to the sixth TECoSA internal seminar with the title ExPECA Testbed: Architecture, Evolution, and AI-Driven Automation held by Wilson Nelson (KTH/EECS/ISE).
Abstract
In this seminar, Wilson will present the current status of the ExPECA testbed, focusing on its architecture, key capabilities, and its role in enabling experimentation for next-generation communication systems. Ongoing developments and planned enhancements aimed at improving flexibility, scalability, and automation will also be discussed.
The talk will further explore the integration of AI-driven agents for automated experimentation in software-based simulators, as a step toward extending such capabilities to hardware platforms like the ExPECA testbed. These agents autonomously configure experiments, orchestrate execution, and analyze results, thereby reducing manual effort and accelerating research cycles. Overall, the seminar will provide a technical perspective on the evolution of the ExPECA testbed, emphasizing scalable and intelligent experimentation.
Date and time: June 5 at 12-13 o’clock.
Venue: Teknikringen 33, rum 3312 is booked from 11.45 to allow time for setting up and for grabbing your food.
We encourage TECoSA postdocs, PhD students and PIs to join in person, please sign up for a seat and for a prebooked lunchbox via this form by 28 May.
You can also attend the seminar online via Zoom-link.
The purpose of the internal seminar series is to keep each other informed about ongoing work at the partners and to have technical discussions. The plan is that the TECoSA postdocs will present at the first 7 seminars.
Read more about Wilson Nelson
Wilson is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Prof. James Gross on the ExPECA testbed. He received his PhD in Information and Communication Technology from the University of Agder (UiA), Norway, where part of his research focused on communications for UAV-assisted wireless networks. Before pursuing PhD, Wilson worked at MathWorks India Pvt. Ltd., contributing to projects in code generation and signal processing. He holds a Master’s degree in Communication Engineering from IIT Bombay, India (2016) and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Model Engineering College, Kochi, India (2012). Wilson’s research interests include wireless communications, machine learning, signal processing, and compilers.