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Team Outperforms 65 Global Competitors in Advancing AI-Driven Wireless Systems   Khalifa University of Science and Technology’s 6G Research Center (6GRC) has won first place globally in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Large Wireless Model (LWM) Challenge 2025 that brought together 65 teams from around the world to advance AI-native and data-efficient wireless communication, a cornerstone for the next generation of 6G networks.   The winning 6GRC team included Post Doctoral Fellows, Dr. Yu Tian, Dr. Brahim Mefgouda, and Research Engineer Anis Bara, from Computer and Information Engineering, under the guidance of Professor Merouane Debbah, Director, 6GRC. The team’s creative…

Khalifa University’s 6G Research Center, in collaboration with GSMA and a global coalition of operators, researchers, and technology partners, is proud to announce the launch of GSMA Open-Telco LLM Benchmarks 2.0: The first comprehensive evaluation suite purpose-built to measure how large language models perform on real-world telecom tasks. This first-of-its-kind initiative rigorously assesses models on critical operator workflows, including intent-to-configuration, network troubleshooting, standards interpretation, domain Q&A, and telecom math reasoning, bringing objective, transparent metrics to the heart of AI-native network operations. Built by the industry, for the industry, the benchmark advances trustworthy AI adoption by combining deep domain understanding, structured…

UAE Leads AI Innovation in Telecom with Launch of Region’s First Arabic AI for Customer Experience Transformation Khalifa University’s 6G Research Center, UAE telecom provider du, Microsoft, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have jointly announced the official launch of TelecomGPT-Arabic, a breakthrough generative AI model purpose-built for Arabic-speaking users across the world. This first-of-its-kind sovereign Arabic-language telecom assistant is designed to understand and resolve real-time network and device issues through intelligent, culturally fluent dialogue, setting a new standard for personalized, human-centric customer care. TelecomGPT-Arabic offers unique advantages. It is developed and trained in the region, for the region — ensuring linguistic…

The KU 6G Center Wins First Place in MIT-organized International Challenge    Hearty congratulations to the 6G Center for securing the coveted top spot at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2024 (ICASSP) Grand Challenge, organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The global competition sought inventive approaches to Data-Driven Signal Separation in the Radio Spectrum, a crucial element in advancing Wireless Communication technologies.    ICASSP is the world’s largest technical conference focused on signal processing and related applications. It offers a technical program presenting all the latest development in research and technology in the…

Holographic MIMO technology offers potential to revolutionize connectivity and launch the 6G networks of the future, says Khalifa University’s Prof. Merouane Debbah, but it’s not without its challenges.   The landscape of wireless communication underwent a transformative shift with the advent of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, now being rolled out globally. However, the ambitions of 5G are already paving the way for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks.    A team of researchers including Khalifa University’s Prof. Merouane Debbah has investigated a potential and promising technology for supporting the expected extreme requirements of 6G communication systems: the holographic multiple-input multiple-output…