2026
Techno-Economic Evaluation of a PV-Battery Microgrid for Retreat Houses in Iceland
Sverrir Jan Nordfjord, Sara Zeidabadi Nezhad, and Runar Unnthorsson, – Nordic Energy Informatics Academy Conference 2026, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, September 2–4, 2026.
A Master’s Thesis as a Multidisciplinary Engineering Journey: Wireless Inductive Charging Underwater as a Vehicle for Integrated Learning in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sverrir Jan Nordfjord, Kristinn Andersen, and Helgi Thorbergsson, – 35th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE), Varna, Bulgaria, June 3–5, 2026.
Steering Uncertainty: Mean-Field-Augmented Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for AUV Swarm Coordination in Underwater IoT
Mahgoli, M., Akyildiz, I.F., Andersen, K., and Thorsteinsson, S. E. – 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2026, pp. 726-733.
Acoustic RIS for Massive Spatial Multiplexing: Unleashing Degrees of Freedom and Capacity in Underwater Communications
L. Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I. F. Akyildiz, and Z. Sun – in IEEE INFOCOM 2026 – IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 1–10, 2026.
2025
Joint Wireless Charging Planning and Task Assignment for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Guo, H., Akyildiz, I. F., Thorsteinsson, S. E. and K. Andersen – in GLOBECOM 2025 – IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 5472–5477, 2025.
Acoustic RIS for Massive Spatial Multiplexing: Unleashing Degrees of Freedom and Capacity in Underwater Communications
L. Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I. F. Akyildiz, and Z. Sun – in IEEE INFOCOM 2026 – IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 1–10, 2026.
Tunable Active Metasurfaces for Next Generation Underwater aRIS-Assisted Communication
Alizadeh, F., Akyildiz, I.F., Andersen, K., and S. E. Thorsteinsson – in Wuwnet’25 Conference, Shenzhen, China, October 2025. Received the Best Paper Award
Formation Control for Swarm Underwater Vehicles Using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
T. Girici, H. Guo, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. Þorsteinsson – in BalkanCom 2025 – 8th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking, Piraeus, Greece, June 2025.
Covering Underwater Shadow Zones Using Acoustic Reconfigurable Intelligent SurfacesFormation Control for Swarm Underwater Vehicles Using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
L. Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I. F. Akyildiz, and Z. Sun – in IEEE INFOCOM 2025 – IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 1–10, 2025.
2024
Design, Modelling and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Backscatter Communications
N. Tang, Y. Liu, X. Chu, and I. F. Akyildiz – in ICC 2024 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Denver, Colorado, USA, pp. 4227–4232, June 2024.