Ved P. KAFLE received the B.E. (Honours) degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Punjab Engineering College, India, the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea, and the Ph.D. degree in Informatics from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan. He is currently a research manager at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, and concurrently holding a visiting associate professor's position at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. He has been serving as a Co-rapporteur of ITU-T Study Group 13 since 2014. He is an ITU-T Study Group 13 Fellow. His research interests include network architectures, 5G networks, Internet of things (IoT), directory service, smart cities, network supported automated driving infrastructure, network security, network service automation by AI and machine learning, network function virtualization (NFV), software defined networking (SDN), and resource management. He received the ITU Association of Japan's Encouragement Award and Accomplishment Award in 2009 and 2017, respectively. He received three Best Paper Awards at the ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conferences in 2009, 2014 and 2018. He is a fellow of ITU-T SG13, a life member of Nepal Engineers Association, a senior member of IEEE and a member of IEICE
