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Biographies |
Adnan Abu-Dayya, QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC),
Qatar
Dr. Abu-Dayya has more than 20 years of
international experience in the areas of
wireless/telecomm R&D, innovations,
business development, and services
delivery. Before moving to Qatar in
March 2007,he worked for 10 years at
AT&T Wireless in Seattle, USA where he
served in a number of senior management
positions covering product innovations &
emerging technologies, systems
engineering, and product realization.
Before that, Adnan worked as a manager
at Nortel Networks in Canada in the
advanced technology group and as a
Senior Consultant at the Communications
Research Centre in Ottawa,Canada.
From April 2007 to Dec. 2008, he was the
chairman of the Electrical Engineering
Department at Qatar University. He led
the initiative to create and then was
appointed as the Executive Director of
the newlyestablished QU Wireless
Innovations Center (QUWIC) in Dec. 2008.
Adnan received his PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Queens University,
Canada in 1992. He has many issued
patents and more than forty publications
in the field of wireless communications. |
Dr Awni Behnam, Commissioner General of the UN Pavilion
Dr. Awni Behnam began his public
schooling in the United Kingdom,
1953-1959.
After serving as an officer in the Navy,
(Iraq) 1962-1969 he joined the
University of Wales (UWIST) UK in 1972,
and lectured in the Department of
Maritime Studies, 1974-1977where he and
completed his higher education (Msc,
PhD).
He joined the United Nations at UNCTAD,
Geneva, in 1977 as Economic Affairs
Officer and Assistant to the Director in
the Shipping Division of UNCTAD before
assuming responsibility as the Chief of
Liaison to the Group of 77 for the
Secretary-General of UNCTAD. He was
promoted to the rank of Director in 1992
as the Secretary of the Trade and
Development Board of UNCTAD and UNCTAD
Conferences which he organized between
19961and 2004.
In 2000 he was promoted to the rank of
Senior Advisor to the Secretary General
of UNCTAD.
In 2004 he was elected to post of
President of the International Ocean
Institute,( Malta) a post he still holds
(www.ioinst.org).
In 2008 he was invited by the UN
Secretary General to assume the
responsibility of UN Commissioner
General for the UN Pavilion at the
Shanghai World Expo 2010 as Assistant
Secretary General.
Dr. Behnam has received several
interactional awards and has a number of
publications to his name. |
 Nakarmi Bikash, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Photonic Energy and Signal processing Lab, Daejeon,
Republic of Korea
Bikash Nakarmi is currently with the
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea,
continuing the PhD degree associating
with the Photonic Energy and Signal
Processing Lab. His current research
interests are in the areas of Cognitive
radios, convergence technology,
photonics sensors and optical network
specially dealing with the Fabry Perot
Laser Diode (FP-LD) and the Energy
minimized optical networks.
He received the BS degree in Electronics
and Communication System from the
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
in 2004, and the MS degree in
Information and communication system
from the Harbin Engineering University,
Harbin, China in 2008. |
 Oscar
Armando Contreras, Universidad Distrital
Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá,
Colombia
Oscar Contreras is an electronic
technologist of Francisco José de Caldas
University District at Bogotá, in 2007.
Since 2002, he worked in outsourcing to
companies like LG, Samsung, Sharp,
Kalley as technical engineer and
coordinator. Actually, he’s concluding
his career in Telecommunications
Engineering at the Francisco José de
Caldas University District. Oscar works
at multinational company which provides
telematics services for monitoring and
vehicle location, with a presence in
various Latin American countries using
specialized technology. |
Koichi Fujinuma, Deputy Director, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan
Koichi Fujinuma is a deputy director at
Advanced Information Systems and
Software Division, Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan.
His current role at MIC is to promote
ICT policies in terms of addressing
Climate Change, including Smart Grid.
Prior to this position, he was a deputy
director for resource allocation,
secretariat of the Council for Science
and Technology Policy (CSTP), the
Cabinet Office of Japan.
He holds MA degree from Stanford
University, MS degree from Tohoku
University, and MIA (Int’l Affairs)
degree from Columbia University. |
Paolo Gemma, EU Senior Marketing Manager for Europe, Representative of Huawei Technologies, China and ITU-T Study Group 5 Rapporteur (Q17/5)
Paolo Gemma - senior manager for Europe
and representative of Huawei on issues
related to energy saving and
environmental sustainability of
companies worldwide - has done its input
in Huawei in April 2008.
Before he was in Nokia Siemens Networks,
has been responsible for laboratories
Italian for EMC (electromagnetic
compatibility) and electrical safety
areas. Previously he held for 18 years a
role like within the Siemens
Communications Division.
Paolo Gemma, between the leading experts
of sector at international level, has an
active role in international
standardization activities. Since 1993
has engaged in ETSI (European
Telecommunication Standard Institute)
and participates in the development of
telecommunications EMC standards.
In 1997 he did entering ITU-T in the
study group 5 with the role of
Rapporteur until now. Currently he works
about thematic related to the
coordination and planning on climate
change and ICT standards.
Paolo Gemma has followed the work of the
EE (Environmental Engineering) of ETSI
Technical Committee since 1998. EE is
the Technical Committee of ETSI engaged
in the standardization of energy power,
mechanics and environmental conditions.
The group is committed since 2004 on
ecological issues in particular with
regard to the reduction of energy
consumption and cooling management of
equipment and installation publishing
some standards on this issue.
In 2002, has been appointed Secretary of
the Committee ETSI TC EE and 2009 holds
the position of Chairman of the EEPS EE
(eco Environmental product standard)
working group. It is, moreover, reporter
on standardizing on the themes of energy
saving and environmental impact of the
ITU-T Study group SG5 telecommunications
industry.
Paolo Gemma is a graduate in electrical
engineering from the University of
Genoa. |
Mercè Griera i Fisa, European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, ICT for Sustainable Growth Unit
Mercè Griera is a European Commission
scientific officer in the Information
and Communication Technologies
Programme. She works in the Unit on ICT
for Sustainable Growth responsible for
developing the ICT for Energy Efficiency
area.
She entered the European Commission on
1993 in the area of Research Networking
where she supported the first World-Wide
Web projects and in particular the
stablishement of W3C at INRIA. In 1997
she moved to the High Performance
Computing and Networking area of the
ESPRIT Programme. In 1999 she was
appointed Area Co-ordinator for
Distributed Systems where she promoted
the convergence between ICT and
Telecommunications and provided support
for several GRID computing projects. In
2003 she was appointed Head of Sector in
Emebeded Systems where she promoted the
creation of ARTEMIS, the technology
platform on Embedded Systems.
Prior to this work in the European
Commission, she was technical director
of CAETI (Generalitat de Catalunya) and
head of project at CIEJ (Caixa
d´Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona).
From 1983 to 1987 she was a lecturer and
researcher at the Autonomous University
of Barcelona with research positions at
the University of Toulon and of the Var
(France) and at the University of
Sherbrooke (Canada). She holds a degree
on Computer Sciences and a masters
degree on Mathematics. |
Phan Thanh Hoa, Ritsumeikan
University, Japan
Phan Thanh Hoa received the B.E degree
in telecommunication engineering in
Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam
in 1999. From 1999 until 2001, he had
worked for Vietnam Telecommunication
Services Company Vinaphone -one of the
biggest Mobile Phone Operator in
Vietnam. He received M.E degree in
optical communication in 2003 from
Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is
currently pursuing the Ph.D degree at
Graduate School, Department of Computer
Science and VLSI system design, at
Ritsumeikan University, in Kyoto, Japan.
His research interests are high-speed
mobile network protocol, radio resources
management and its architecture design. |
Mr Arthur Levin, Head, Policy Division, ITU-TSB
Mr. Arthur Levin was the lead ITU staff
member in the organization of the two
phases of the World Summit on the
Information Society and has served as a
senior policy adviser and legal
counselor with the Union. He organized
and was Executive Secretary of the ITU
Plenipotentiary Conferences in 2002 and
2006.
He also holds an appointment as an
adjunct professor of law at the Franklin
Pierce Law Center in the United States,
where he teaches a course on
International Telecommunications Law and
the Internet..
He previously served as Legal Adviser of
the OECD in Paris and as a senior
attorney with regulatory agencies in the
United States and with private law firms
in Washington, D.C. He has published
numerous articles and books on
regulatory topics.
He has a J.D. with honors from George
Washington Law Center and a B.S. with
honors from Cornell University. |
Daniel Mauricio Amaya Madrid, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia: Wireless Networks for trade community
Daniel Amaya in telecommunications engineering student of 9 semester, currently works for the company Doja evidence of underground storage tanks tightness; in his previous work to COLOMBIA TELECOMUNICACIONES in supporting subscriber testing equipment remotely, now works with your project grade in an application for assignment of appointments at hospitals in one of the less favored localities of Bogotá. This project is also in the research group called GIDENUTAS, which is focused on that ICT serves as a social tool for the advancement and benefit of the community. |
 Yuly Jazmin Oviedo Melo, Universidad Distrital
Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá,
Colombia
Yuly Oviedo received the degree in
Electronics and Telecommunications
Technologist of the Catholic University
of Colombia, Bogotá in 2006. From
2006-2008, he worked for the
Telecommunications Services Company
Telefónica. She is currently pursuing 9
semester in Telecommunications
Engineering at the Universidad Distrital
Francisco Jose de Caldas in Bogotá,
Colombia. And is mid working with a
Spanish multinational technology with an
international presence in Latin America,
in the area of network support. |
Paolo Rosa, Head of Workshops and Promotion Division, (ITU/TSB)
Mr Rosa received his degree in physics in 1974 in Rome, Italy, and joined
the R&D branch of the Italian Ministry of Communication working on optical
fibers transmission networks, in national and international standards and
leading quality control inspection teams for international telecommunication
projects.
He was head of national delegations for standardization and research studies
performed in IEC, ITU, ETSI, CECC, COST and represented the Italian Ministry
of Communications in various international institutions including the
European Commission task force for the G7 pilot projects on the Information
Society.
Paolo was appointed as expert and senior advisor by the Italian Foreign
Office, the UNDP and ITU for telecommunication projects in various
developing countries worldwide.
In 1997 he joined the ITU-T secretariat in Geneva as Counselor responsible
for Study Groups 6 (Outside plant), and SG 15 (Optical and other transport
networks) and representing ITU in various events. Since November 2004 he is
the Head of the Workshops and Promotion Division of the ITU Standardization
Sector, organizing events and promoting new ITU-T activities for resolutions
concerning developing countries, conformance and interoperability,
universities.
He is author of several papers published in international technical
magazines and speaker and lecturer in universities, international
conferences, seminars and workshops.
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Labonnah Farzana Rahman, Dept. of Electrical Electronic and Systems Engineering
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM, Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
Labonnah Farzana Rahman received her
B.Sc. (Eng.) in Computer Science and
Engineering from Shah Jalal University
of Science and Technology, Sylhet,
Bangladesh in 2006. Since 2007 to 2009
she worked in GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh
Limited as an IT Systems Executive.
Currently she is doing her Masters in
the Dept. of Electrical, Electronic and
Systems Engineering under Faculty of
Engineering and Built Environment in
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. |
Sed Saad, Researcher, Waseda
University and Senior Strategy,
Consultant, Telecoms & Intelligent
Transport Systems (ITS)
Dr Sed SAAD is both a researcher in
Waseda (Japan) and a senior strategy
consultant in Telecommunication &
Intelligent Transport System (ITS).
-Education: He got his PhD on ITS from
Waseda University (Japan), a MBA from
MIT and MPA from Harvard University.
-Research and Consultancy Interests:
convergence of Telecom, Transport and
Energy infrastructures for next
generation transportation systems from a
multidisciplinary (Technology, Policy,
Business and System) perspectives |
Subin Shen, Professor, Vice-Director, Institute of Information Network
Technology, Nanjing Univeristy of Posts & Telecommunications, China
Dr. SHEN is a professor of Nanjing
University of Posts and
Telecommunications (NUPT), CHINA, and
the vice director of Institute of
Information Network Technology of NUPT.
He is the expert of Ministry of Industry
and Information Technology, CHINA. Dr.
SHEN joined NUPT in 1989 and was working
on various projects related with Open
System Interconnection, Internet and
multimedia network. For the last three
years, he has been working on next
generation network, mobile ad hoc
network, and Internet of things. Dr.
SHEN obtains his Bachelor, Master and
Doctor Degrees from Southeast
University, CHINA，and all in Computer
Science and Engineering. He is an IEEE
member, and a member of Association of
Computing Machinery (ACM). |
Raja Aida Binti Raja Shaharuddin, Student's Project/Seminar Coordinator, College of Science & Technology, UTM
International Campus, Malaysia
Raja Aida binti Raja Shaharuddin is working as a instructor teaching Computer Repair and Maintenance at Science(Computer Science ) Department, College of Science and Technology (CST) , Universiti Teknologi Malaysia International Campus . She is responsible for all the final year student’s project at CST. Raja Aida has more than 25 years of computer industry experience ranging from information system development to computer hardware repair and maintenance. Previously attached with the Software Institute Of Technology , Faculty of Computer Science and Information System, UTM where she was the consultant for government and private sector projects such as the Hydrological Flood System with Institute of Hydrology UK and the Department of Drainage and Irrigation Malaysia, Tenaga Nasional Scholarship System and many others. Besides teaching she is also the Head Of Computer Maintenance Unit for CST.
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Vasileios Spyropoulos,
Medical Instrumentation Technology
Dept., Faculty of Engineering,
Technological Education Institute (TEI),
Greece
B.Sc. in Physics, University of Athens,
Greece, Ph.D. Universities of Heidelberg
and Saarland, Germany. Positions in
CERN, Switzerland, in the Radiology and
Clinical Chemistry Institute, University
of Heidelberg, Germany, Head of the
Biomedical Engineering Department of the
Hospital Construction Authority, Athens,
Greece, Patent Examiner, in the European
Patent Office, Munich, Germany. Since
1987, he is full Professor of Biomedical
Technology, in the Medical
Instrumentation Technology Department of
the Technological Education Institute (TEI)
of Athens, Greece. Head of the
Biomedical Technology Laboratory of TEI,
encompassing activities related to
Health-Care Information Technology,
Biomedical Technology and Hospital
Management, Medical Decision Supporting
Systems, and Radiological Protection
Methods and Policies. He served or still
serves as Visiting Professor/Researcher
in the National Schools of Public
Health, of Public Administration,
Athens, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, in the
Universities of Athens, Crete and Patras,
Greece, Heidelberg and Ilmenau, Germany,
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, and
Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, in
the USA. |
 D.M. Totev, e-Government Researach
Group, University of Botswana, Gaborone
In 1964 Mr. Totev completed his
secondary education at the First High
School of Mathematics, Sofia.
In 1969 he graduated as an electrical
engineer (Control Systems) from the
Higher Institute of Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering, Sofia.
In 1976 he obtained his second master
degree in Mathematics, Computer
Mathematics from Sofia University.
Mr. Totev specialized for a short time
at Toshiba Co., Fuchu Works, Tokyo in
1983, Control System engineering.
His experience is mainly oriented to
Energy Management and
e-Governance/Education.
The major research areas of Mr. Totev
are:
- Parallel Linear Programming routines
for e-Planning
- Design of data acquisition systems for
Energetics.
- Prime Numbers and data security
- e-Taxation (Zimbabwe)
- Gravitation and Electro-magnetic
phenomena
- e-Education
- Alternative energy sources and new
locomotion methods
Most of his research is shared with
others from various educational and
research organisations.
At present Mr. Totev works as a lecturer
at University of Botswana, Gaborone,
Botswana. |
Daniele Trinchero, iXEM Labs - DELEN, Politecnico di
Torino, Italy
Daniele Trinchero was born in Torino,
Italy, in 1968. He obtained the Laurea
Degree in Electronic Engineering in
1993, and the pHd degree in Electronic
and Telecommunication Engineering in
1997 from Politecnico di Torino. Before
1997 he worked for Politecnico di
Torino, IRITI (now IEIIT), an Institute
of the Italian National Council of
Research (CNR), the Loughborough
University (UK). Starting from December
1997 he has been working for the
Electronics Department of Politecnico di
Torino, Italy, where in Semptember 2005
he founded the iXem Labs, and since then
he has been the labs responsible. He is
also associate to the Institute of
Electronics and Information and
Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT) of
the CNR. At Politecnico di Torino he
teaches courses on basic electromagnetic
theory, radio planning, electromagnetic
compatibility, and electromagnetic field
measurements.
His research interests are in the
following fields: Wireless Sensor
Networks, Geographical Wireless
Networks, Long Distance Communications,
Antennas, Electromagnetic Field
Propagation, Electromagnetic Field
Measurements, Electromagnetic
Compatibility, Microwave Devices,
Frequency Selective Surfaces, Shielding
Devices, Wireless Solutions for Digital
Inclusion of Developing Regions.
He is maintaining important research
collaborations with several Italian,
European and Extra-European
Universities, Telecommunication Research
Centres, many industrial enterprises,
and non-profit organizations. The group
of Daniele Trinchero has developed new
very-low-cost wireless transmitters able
to carry large bandwidths over huge
distances (up to 300 km). Recently,
Daniele Trinchero has proposed a
revolutionary idea to identify leakages
in pipes used for water distribution. In
the recent past, Daniele Trinchero has
developed theoretical methods for the
assessment of the human exposure in the
vicinity of radio base stations. Those
methods are referenced in the main
International Standards.
Dr. Trinchero is Academic member of the
Subcommittee 106B of the Italian
Electrotechnical Committee (CEI). Since
2005 he has been Convenor of the Italian
working group on wideband digital
measurements. He is member of the IEC TC
106, IEEE TC 34, Cenelec TC 106, Cost BM
0704 working groups. He is serving as a
reviewer for several international
publications. In 2008 he was assigned an
Award by the InterAmerican Development
Bank for the construction of a
Telemedicine and distance learning
wireless network in Eastern Ecuador. In
2009 together with a research group of
the University of Qatar, he was granted
by the Qatar National Research Fund for
studies devoted to the reduction of
water losses in water
distribution networks. |
Y. H. Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Photonic Energy and Signal processing Lab, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Yong Hyub Won received a Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, United
States, in 1990, M.Sc. from Seoul
National University, S. Korea, and B.S.
from the University of Ulsan, S. Korea,
all in electrical engineering, in 1978
and 1981, respectively. He is currently
a professor at the Department of
Elecrical Engineering, KAIST, S. Korea.
he has focused on development of a node
system in optical network, especially
node architecture,
wavelength converters, contention
resolution, NRZ-to-PRZ converter,
optical burst switching (OBS), optical
clock recovery, optical packet header
processing using second harmonic SCM,
optical flip-flop using FP-LD (Fabry-Perot
laser diode) for optical memory,
single-mode light source using multimode
FP-LD, etc. The main achievements are
the development of a new technology of a
single mode light source using multimode
FP-LD and the world-first testbed of
an optical burst switching add-drop
multiplexing (OB-ADM) in 2006. His
current research interests are tera-hertz
communication, next generation internet
with ultra-low power saving capability
and power saving- related network
components and cognitive radio network,
etc. He is a member of the IEEE and the
IEEE communication society. |
Takahiko Yamada, Ritsumeikan
University, Japan
Takahiko Yamada received B.E and M.E.
degrees in electronics engineering in
1967 and 1969, respectively and the D.E.
degree in 1989 from Kyoto University.
Since 1969, he had been engaged in the
research and development of electronic
and digital switching systems and public
network applications in NTT
communication laboratories for 25 years.
He has been a professor of Department of
Computer Science and VLSI System Design
at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto,
Japan since 1994. He has been studying
VLSI-based communication systems and
networks both for fixed networks and
mobile networks to popularize multimedia
communications over the general public,
and the network to integrate the public
network and the Internet. |
Yang Yang, Professor, Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications (WiCO),
China
Dr. Yang Yang is currently the Assistant
Director and Vice CTO at Shanghai
Research Center for Wireless
Communications (WiCO), Chinese Academy
of Sciences. Prior to that, he served
the Department of Electronic and
Electrical Engineering at University
College London (UCL), United Kingdom, as
a Lecturer and a Senior Lecturer from
2005 to 2010, the Department of
Electronic and Computer Engineering at
Brunel University, United Kingdom, as a
Lecturer from 2003 to 2005, and the
Department of Information Engineering at
The Chinese University of Hong Kong as
an Assistant Professor from 2002 to
2003.
Yang has published over 80 refereed
journal and conference papers in the
areas of 3G and LTE mobile communication
systems, wireless ad hoc and sensor
networks, wireless mesh networks, radio
resource management, cognitive radio,
and cooperative communications. He is
now on the Editorial Boards of five
international journals, including IEEE
Communications Magazine, and was a guest
editor for IEEE Network Magazine
(Wireless Mesh Networks, 2008) and
Computer Communications (Wireless Sensor
Networks, 2007). Yang received the
prestigious “Young Scientist Award” from
Hong Kong Institution of Science in
2003, a “Short-Term Research Fellowship”
from British Telecom (BT) in 2004, a
“Visiting Scholarship” from University
of Waterloo, Canada, in 2005, a
“UK-China Fellowship for Excellence”
from the Department for Innovation,
Universities and Skills (DIUS), UK, in
2008, and a “Visiting Scholarship” from
University of Sydney, Australia, in
2009.
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Xia Zhang, Senior Engineer, China Academy of Telecommunications Research, MIIT
Xia Zhang received her bachelor degree in Computer Science and her master degree in Software Engineering from BUPT, China. She joined CATR of MIIT in 2000 and was working on several research, standardization and test certification projects related to telecommunication terminals and electromagnetic compatibility. Since 2004, she actively participates in standardization meetings including ITU-T SG5, 3GPP CT, IEC TC106, CCSA TC9 and CIC. Currently, she is the associate rapporteur for Question 8/5 (home networks) and an associate rapporteur for Q21/5(environmental protection and recycling of ICT equipment/facilities) of ITU-T SG5. For the last four years she has been involved in the standardization of universal power adapter and charger for mobile terminals and other ICT devices. She is an editor of ITU-T Recommendation L.1000. She is also the qualified senior engineer of Information and Telecommunications Engineering, the member of CIC, CCSA, and CESS, and a quality supervisor of CTTL.
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