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Biographies |
 Giancarlo De Marchis
Giancarlo De Marchis is an expert in a
number of areas crucial to optical
communications, including theory of
propagation in optical fibers; fiber
measurements; direct detection systems;
coherent optical communication systems;
ultra long-haul, high capacity systems;
optical transport networks, access
networks, and optical Internet. In his
25-year career at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni,
Giancarlo held various research and
research management positions and was
involved in coherent optical
transmission systems, and high speed and
high capacity transmission with
particular emphasis on polarization and
non-linear effects in fiber and
performance of multilevel and binary
coherent systems, among other areas.
Giancarlo has about one hundred
published papers. He is co-author of
"Coherent Optical Communication Systems"
(J. Wiley & Sons, 1995), and co-editor
of "Optical Networks - Design and
Modeling" (Kluwer Academic Publisher,
1999). He has been serving as a Member
of the Board of Directors of Italian
Photonics and Electro-optics special
interest group and Chairman of Fotonica
2001 national conference. Giancarlo has
been active on the Technical Program
Committees of ECOC, OFMC, OFC/IOOC and
Fotonica, and has acted as co-chair of
IOOC/ECOC 2003 Technical Program
Committee.
Giancarlo has been involved in ITU-T
activities both on fibers and systems
since 1980 actively cooperating in the
definition of the first recommendations
under the chairmanship of Mr.
Bonaventura. He has been active in the
European Standard Institute (ETSI) as
well. He has served ITU-T as an expert
in official missions several times. He
is an expert of European Commission for
telecommunications projects evaluation
and assessing.
Since 2002 he is running his own company
working in the fields of photonics and
optical communications. |
 Gerard Kuyt
Gerard Kuyt (born in 1950, Katwijk, The Netherlands) received his B.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering at the The Hague University in 1973. In the same year, he joined the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, in a new group on optical transmission.
In 1981 he joined Philips Optical Fibre, now Draka Communications, starting in the measurement & applications department. From 1992, he changed position to the Sales & Marketing group; currently he is Product Line Manager Optical Fiber, stationed in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
He is active in standardization e.g. CENELEC TC86A, ITU-T (Editor for Rec. G.651.1, G.652 and G.657) and IEC (Chairman of IEC SC86A and Convenor of IEC 86A/WG1).
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 Professor David P Mellor OBE, LLM Chairman UKTA
David worked in the Telecommunications Industry for over 40 years with experience of Manufacturing, the Service Industry, Mobile Networks and has been employed at all levels from technician to a member of the Executive Board of Directors.
David’s experience is not limited to the United Kingdom since his work has taken him to over 120 countries, including all continents. In recent years he has been an active member of several International organisations and he was Chairman of the Telecommunications Development Advisory Group of the International Telecommunications Union from 2003-06.
Working with Governments and Universities David has designed a number of academic programmes, which specifically address the shortfalls in knowledge of human resources as they progress to the emerging liberalised communications organisations. With Cable & Wireless’s support David developed an on-line Academy and a number of e-Education and e-Training programmes were made available via the Internet. Scholarships have been made available to the USTTI, UKTA and ITU. Scholarship support was also available to study full-time at a number of Universities specialising in the issues of communications management.
At the request of ITU in 2005 a visit was made to Rwanda which subsequently led to an agreement to deliver the Master of Communications Management Degree at KIST. To date over 150 African’s are benefiting from this programme. In 2010 KIST launched an MSc in Operational Communications which runs in parallel with the MCM.
David is currently a Visiting Professor of Telecommunications to Coventry University and also SWUN, NUEM, BUPT, KIST and OUT. Moreover David delivers modules of the MOC, MCM and LLM in UK, Rwanda and Tanzania..
David’s work with the British Government in respect of innovative scholarship schemes was recognised in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2003 where he received the OBE.
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 Makoto Murakami
Makoto Murakami has been a research engineer in the field of optical communications/network systems in NTT. He was first engaged in
research and development of long haul transmission systems using optical amplifiers and coherent modulation/demodulation schemes at the
emergence of those technologies. After finishing development and deployment of a commercial optically amplified submarine system, he
continued research and development on WDM systems to further increase the fiber transmission capacity. From 2001 to 2003, he worked for
NTT Communications, one of the network operating companies of the NTT group, where he was engaged in construction and operation of international
communication networks mainly in Asia and Pacific areas. Since 2003 he has been an active participant in ITU-T SG15 and been involved in
research and development of large-capacity photonic network systems and standardization of optical transport networks. He received the Ph. D.
degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo.
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Atilio Eduardo Reggiani
Atilio Eduardo Reggiani (born in 1956,
Itápolis-SP, Brasil) received his B.Sc
degree in Materials Engineering at
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
in 1979 and his Master's Degree in
Chemical Engineering at Universidade
Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) in 1991.
He joined the CPqD Research and
Development Center in Campinas-SP (Brasil)
in 1980, in the group responsible for
the development of the optical fibers
using Brazilian technology, materials
and optical components for optical
networks. During the last 30 years
working at CPqD, had participation in
several projects such as optical fiber
coatings and manufacturing technology,
optical network elements, outside
optical plant and FTTH access optical
networks. Has participation on
consulting services for service
providers in areas such as optical
network specifications, infrastructure,
maintenance and integrity. His
experience includes management in
applied research and R&D projects
working in partnership with
universities.
He was active for several years in
braziilian standardization, eg, as
member and coordinator of the Comissão
de Estudos de Métodos de Ensaios de
Fibras e Cabos Ópticos from Associação
Brasileira de Normas Técnica (ABNT) in
the area of optical fibers and cables.
Since 2001 he is active member of ITU-T,
e.g. member of SG 6 - Outside Plant and
related indoor installations
(2000-2008), Chairman of WP 2/6 -
Application of Products (2003-2008),
Member ITU-T Study Group 15 - Optical
Transport networks and access network
infrastructures and Rapporteur Q.18/15
(WP 2/15) - Development of optical
networks in the access area (2009-_).
Currently is Researcher in
Telecommunications at CPqD and Assistant
Professor at Universidade Paulista
(UNIP) at Campinas-SP, Brasil. |
 Reinhard Scholl, Deputy to the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, (ITU/TSB)
Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU-T Secretariat (TSB) since September 2002. Previously he has been with Siemens in Munich,
Germany and with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois, USA.
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