2026 International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia, Networking, and Security  

3-4 August, 2026

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

IMNS 2026 is Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE and IEEE Communication Society

Keynote I

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Biography:
Mahmoud Daneshmand is an educator and technology leader with more than four decades of combined industry and academic experience at Bell Laboratories, AT&T Labs, and leading universities worldwide. He is Professor of Business Intelligence & Analytics and Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology and a recognized expert in Big Data Analytics, IoT, AI, and machine learning.
He has held senior technical and leadership roles at AT&T, led over 60 major projects in communications and data analytics, and helped shape key industry standards. Globally, he is a co‑founder and steering leader of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Big Data Initiative, and serves on multiple international advisory and editorial boards in big data and IoT.

Keynote II

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Biography:
Dr. Hamid Sharif is an IEEE Fellow and the Charles J. Vranek Distinguished Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He is also the Director of the Advanced Telecommunication Engineering Laboratory (TEL) at UNL. He has nearly 40 years of academic and industrial experience. He has published over 450 research articles in national and international journals and conferences and has served on many IEEE and other international journal editorial boards. Dr. Sharif has served as PI/Co-PI for a large number of research projects funded by DoE, DoT, NSF, DoD, and local and national industries. His research has been recognized through numerous research awards and best paper awards. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.