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Pieter Ballon (Free University of Brussels)
Prof Dr Pieter Ballon is Professor in Media Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also heads IBBT's Market Innovation & Sector Transition research team, specialising in new business models for the telecommunications and media industries, and is manager of IBBT-iLab.o, the lab and expert centre for open innovation in ICT.
He is leading various national and international projects and programmes on business models for ICT services, ICT platforms, open innovation and the media and mobile communications industries.
Since 2009, Pieter Ballon has been elected as the international Secretary of the European Network of Living Labs. In 2006-2007, Pieter Ballon coordinated the joint research on business models for future mobile IP-based systems of the Wireless World Initiative (WWI) in the EU 6th Framework Programme.
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Jaroslaw Budzisz (Telekomunikacja Polska)
I was born in Olesnica, Poland in 1983.
Currently living and working in Warsaw, Poland.
In 2009 I graduated in Radio-communication and Multimedia Technologies in Warsaw University of Technology with Master of Science degree.
I work for Polish Telecom R&D unit – Orange Labs Poland, as Chief Specialist in Service Platforms & Middleware Division.
Scope of duties: IMS related projects, NFC innovations, ITU standardization
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Marco Carugi (ZTE, SG13 Vice-Chairman)
MARCO CARUGI is Senior Expert in ZTE Corporation, R&D and Standards, where he focuses on future service and network technologies, and associated standardization.
Marco began his career in Solvay as telecommunication engineer, worked for 7 years in France Telecom/Orange Labs as research engineer on Broadband Data Services and Network Technologies, then for 8 years in Nortel CTO organization as Senior Advisor on NGN and emerging services, and joined ZTE Product R&D organization in August 2010.
Marco participates actively since 15 years in various standards organizations, and has held various leadership positions, including Rapporteur in the ITU-T NGN Focus Group, OIF Board member, co-chair of the IETF Provider Provisioned VPN Working Group. Currently, he is vice-chairman of ITU-T SG13 (Future Networks including mobile and NGN) and also acts as Rapporteur for Q.3/13 (Requirements and implementation scenarios for emerging services and capabilities in an evolving NGN).
SDP, Cloud Computing and IoT/M2M are three technical areas in which he is currently involved (in ITU-T, participating in the Internet of Things Global Standards Initiative and the Focus Group on Cloud Computing).
Marco holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa in Italy, a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from INT in France and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School in Paris.
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Nuno Encarnaçao (Swiss Federal Office of Communication)
Nuno Encarnação got his degree as an Engineer (University of Lisbon, 1975) and started his activity in telephony with ITT (Portugal). After 4 years he went through a 4 years shared experience between air traffic control radars (Portugal) and Quality Assurance (Switzerland, creating and leading a department for electronic components).
In 1984 he joint back the telephony world (Ascom, Switzerland). He created and led a department in charge of the engineering and product management of import and export telecom terminals and successfully concluded a 3 year education on management aspects of enterprises.
His experience on worldwide standards brought him to the Federal Office for Communications (end of 1992). Soon after he started a regular activity within ITU and ETSI standardization, particularly in quality, transmission, terminals, interfaces and services.
In 1996 he initiated a 9 years chairmanship of the ETSI body on terminals and access in a period where the European authorities strongly focused on the creation of a single European market for terminals. This was largely achieved due to the great standardization progress made by this ETSI group. Since then he also participated in many working groups related to regulatory, policy and administrations issues, many of them in areas related to standards.
His present focus is in communications services, e-Inclusion and e-Accessibility, convergence(s) in the ICT sector, Quality of Service.
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Ali Ghazanfar (Editor of Question 3/SG13)
Ghazanfar Ali is a Senior Standards Manager at ZTE Corporation,
responsible for the standardization of service platforms and
communication service enablers.
Ghazanfar represents ZTE Corporation at various industry standards
organizations and industry forums, and is an active contributor in the
development of service platforms and service enablers related standards
including ITU-T Y.2240 (NGN-SIDE requirements & capabilities), ITU-T
Y.2214 (service requirements and functional models for CMR services),
ITU-T Q.3610 (signalling requirements and protocol profiles for CRBT
service), ITU-T Q.3611 (signalling requirements and protocol profiles
for CRT service), OMA CPM (Converged IP Messaging), and 3GPP TR 23.824
(enhancements to IP Short Message Gateway).
Ghazanfar received his MSc degree in Computer Science in 2003 from
Quad-e-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad (Pakistan).His MSc thesis was on
the design and implementation of an Internet Protocol-Private Branch
eXchange (IP-PBX). |
Huilan Lu (Alcatel-Lucent, SG13 Vice-Chairman)
Dr. Huilan Lu is Vice Chairman of SG 13 and Chairman of Working Party 4/13 on QoS and security. A Bell Labs Fellow at Alcatel-Lucent, she has been conducting research and development in various areas, including mathematical programming, network operating systems and middleware, IN service creation, and multimedia communication over IP. Her latest research interest focuses on security and identity management for cloud services. Dr. Lu holds about a dozen patents and has many publications, including the book entitled “Converged Networks and Services: Internetworking IP with PSTN" (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). She received her doctorate in Physics from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
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Kaoru Kenyoshi (NEC)
Mr Kenyoshi joined NEC since 1984 and he has been engaged in software development for switching system of ISDN and B-ISDN for ten years. From 2000 to 2006, he worked in as a general and chief manager in the sales and solution department for fixed and mobile network. He is now in charge of promotion of NGN and IPTV solutions for fixed and mobile operators. He moved to NEC Europe in UK and he is belonging to NEC Europe since April 2011.
Mr Kenyoshi has been an active participant to standard meetings especially in ITU-T for 20 years and now he works as WP2 chairman and Vice-chairman of ITU-T SG11.
Mr Kenyoshi was born in Osaka Japan in 1958 and received his B. E. and M. E. degrees from Osaka University in 1982 and 1984, respectively.
Mr Kenyoshi received awards in 2000 and 2008 from the ITU association of Japan and chairman prize in 2011 from the TTC for his significant international standardization activities. |
Roberto Minerva (Telecom Italia)
Roberto Minerva, Responsible for Future
ICT Architectures within the Future Centre in the Strategy Department of
Telecom Italia. His job is to create advanced scenarios derived from the
application of emerging ICT technologies with innovative business
models.
He held many responsibilities within Telecom Italia Lab: Network
Intelligence, Wireless Architecture and Business Services Area Manager.
Roberto has a Master Degree in Computer Science. Since 1987 he has been
involved in the development of Service Architectures for Telecom (TINA,
OSA/Parlay and SIP), in activities related to IMS, and in the definition
of services for the Business market (context-awareness, ambient
intelligence and automotive).
Roberto is authors of several papers published in international
conferences, books and magazine. |
Xiao Su (China Telecom)
Xiao Su studied in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
and got his B.E. and M.S. degree.
He began IMS related research in Bell Labs Research China in 2005, then
worked as an Engineer for Alcatel-Lucent from 2006 and responsible for
developing core network products, like call center, VCC etc. Later, he
switched his role to be a Product Manager and responsible for management
of IMS products including SDP platform.
In 2010, he joined China Telecom Corporation Limited Beijing Research
Institute and continues his core network career. Right now, he focuses
on new technologies in IMS and Internet domain, and participates the
NGN-SIDE meeting of ITU-T SG15. |
Keum Chang Sup (ETRI)
Changsup Keum is a principal researcher at ETRI, Korea. He received his
B.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Seoul, Korea in 1992
and received his M.E. degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie
Mellon University in 2005. He joined ETRI, Korea as the member of
research staff in 1994. Since 2000 to 2003 he was engaged in research
and development of softswitch systems. Since 2004, he has been engaged
in research and development of various SDPs (Service Delivery Platform).
Since 2002, he has involved in the design and standardization of open
service systems. He is a member of KIPS (Korea Information Processing
Society) of Korea. |
 Eric Troup (Microsoft)
Eric Troup serves as Chief Technology Officer of Worldwide Communications
and Media Industries at Microsoft focusing on technology management and
industry solutions strategy. Eric acts as the technical leader for the
Communications and Media Industry organization guiding the evolution of
products and industry solutions in consultation with customers, product
groups, account teams, partners, and industry organizations. He is
responsible for the technical strategy for a growing global ecosystem of
BSS, OSS, and cloud service delivery management solutions leveraging
Microsoft platforms and tools.
Eric Troup held a variety of leadership positions in the U.S. Army, NY
Telephone / NYNEX, Unisys, and Cap Gemini before joining Microsoft in
2004. He earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree from West Point and
received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University
of Utah. |
Mehmet Ulema, Ph.D.(Professor of Computer Information Systems)
Dr. Mehmet Ulema has more than 30 years experience in the telecommunications field as a professor, director, project manager, researcher, systems engineer, network architect, and software developer. Currently he is a professor at the Computer Information Systems Department at Manhattan College, New York. Previously, he held management and technical positions in Daewoo Telecom, Bellcore (now called Telcordia), AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Hazeltine Corporations. He is an active member of IEEE. He served as the founding chair of the IEEE Communications Society's Information Infrastructure and Radio Communications Technical Committee. He is involved in numerous IEEE conferences. Currently, he was the Technical Program chair for IEEE Global Communications (Globecom) conference) in 2009. More recently he was the General co-chair of IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) in 2008, the program chair of IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC) in 2006. He has numerous publications in various international conferences and journals. He is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, the ACM Wireless Network Journal, and the Springer Journal of Network and Services Management. He received MS & Ph.D. in Computer Science at Polytechnic University (now called Polytechnic Institute of New York University), Brooklyn, New York. U.S.A. He received BS & MS degrees at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. |
Musa Unmehopa (OMA TP Chair)
MUSA UNMEHOPA is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the
Software, Services and Solutions group at Alcatel-Lucent, where he is a
senior manager for converged applications and services standards. His
career in the communications industry spans 15 years, first at Bell
Labs, and now at Alcatel-Lucent. Musa, a member of the Alcatel-Lucent
Technical Academy, has held several key leadership positions in various
standards organizations and industry consortia, and currently serves as
the chairman of the Technical Plenary of the Open Mobile Alliance. Musa
has co-authored two books: 'The Open Mobile Alliance' on enablers for
mobile applications, and 'Parlay/OSA - From Standards to Reality' on
application programming interfaces for telecommunications networks. He
has published numerous journal and conference papers, holds two patents,
and has several patents pending in the area of service mediation and
application technology. Musa holds an M.Sc degree in Computer Science
from the Technical University of Twente in the Netherlands, and is
currently an MBA candidate at the University of Bradford in the UK, and
at TiasNimbas Business School, in the Netherlands. |
Rui Wang (ZTE)
EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2009 – present: International marketing supervisor of ZTE SDP product line.
The SDP solution provider and marketing decision-maker of all ZTE SDP projects in 2009~2011.
BACKGROUND
NATIONALITY: Chinese
LANGUAGES: Chinese (mother tongue), English
EDUCATION: Master of Communication Degree, Bachelor of Computer degree, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunication
EMPLOYMENT
2009 – present International marketing supervisor of ZTE SDP product line
2007 – 2009 International sales and marketing manager of ZTE BOSS/VAS product line
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Yachen Wang (China Mobile)
Yachen Wang is the rapporteur of Q9/13 and also the senior project manager
of China Mobile, Yachen Wang is responsible for the 2G\3G\LTE Core
Network and Telecom Service area, including NGN\IMS, telephony service,
VOIP, Fix & Mobile Convergence (FMC), and 2G\3G\IMS related service
provisioning etc. In addition Mr. Yachen Wang is also leading in many
important projects in China Mobile, such as China Mobile Network
evolution strategy, China Mobile & Vodafone common technology roadmap,
Web and IMS convergence, and NG-VOIP etc. |
Andrew White (ATIS CSF Chair)
Andrew White joined Nokia Siemens Networks as a Principal Consultant in 2010. He brings 15 years of experience designing, engineering, and deploying communications systems. For the past eight years, Andrew has focused on service oriented architectures blending best of breed capabilities from Web, IMS, SOA and most recently cloud services.
Previous to joining NSN, Andrew was Director of NGN Architecture for Qwest Communications. At Qwest, he managed teams deploying a wide range of VoIP, SDP, and Cloud technologies that expanded capacity, reduced cost, and supported new product deployments.
Andrew is Chair of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) Cloud Services Forum (CSF). The ATIS CSF focuses on rapid delivery of cloud services standards such as inter-carrier telepresence and CDN interconnection. He has actively contributed to ATIS’ Convergence and NGN efforts since 2005.
Prior to joining Qwest, Andrew managed mobile battlefield communications in the U.S. Army Field Artillery. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
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