|
Workshop on "End-to-End QoE/QoS" |
|
Biographies |
|
Workshop on "End-to-End QoE/QoS"
Geneva, 14-16 June 2006
Contact: tsbworkshops@itu.int
|
|
|
|
 |
Bruce Adams
Telchemy Inc.
|
Bruce Adams is currently the Manager of Standards and Research at Telchemy, Incorporated. He is a past Rapporteur
of ITU-T Question 4/16 “High Speed Modems” and currently participates in various standards committees including ITU-T
Study Group 12, “Performance and quality of service”, TIA-TR30, “Multi-Media Access, Protocols and Interfaces”, TIA-TR41,
“User Premises Telecommunications Requirements”, VQEG, “Video Quality Experts Group” and PacketCable. He holds a BSEE
from the University of South Carolina, and an MSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in Communications,
Digital Signal Processing and Integrated Circuit Design techniques. Previously he was the lead DSP engineer at Hayes
Microcomputer, CEO and General manager of Signals and Software, Inc., and Director of Signal Processing Technology at
Commetrex, Inc.
|
|
|
|
 |
Kamal Ahmed
Scientist, TNO Information- and Communication Technology, the Netherlands
|
Received the MSc. degree in Systems and Control Engineering (1999) from the department of Mechanical Engineering at the
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He then joined KPN Research specializing in speech quality. In 2003 KPN
Research was taken over by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO. Currently his research efforts
at TNO are focused on the perceived quality of various other services a.o. video, web browsing and interactive gaming.
|
|
|
|
 |
Paul Barrett
Vice Chair ITU-T SG16
|
Paul is responsible for the Psytechnics product development and research programme.
Before joining Psytechnics in 2001, Paul led a variety of research projects at BT's R&D facility at Martlesham Heath.
Paul has more than 14 years of experience in standardisation, and was actively involved in the development of four
generations of GSM and 3G speech transmission standards.
Paul is Psytechnics' primary representative in the ITU and also regularly represents the UK. In support of Psytechnics
ongoing commitment to standardisation and the telecommunications industry, Paul is Vice Chairman of
ITU-T Study Group 16, and Joint-Chairman of ITU-T Working Party 3/16 (Media Coding).
Paul is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Masters Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.
|
|
|
|
 |
Duncan Bees
Technical Advisor, PMC-Sierra
|
Duncan Bees is a Technical Advisor with PMC-Sierra, in Vancouver, Canada. His current focus is standards and product
definitions for chips that are found in home gateways, PON, and other consumer devices. He has also helped define chips
for access products, chip to chip interconnects, SERDES, and backplane switching applications. Prior to joining PMC-Sierra
in 1999, he managed the CDMA speech processing group at Nortel Networks in Montreal and held a variety of research and
development roles at Bell Northern Research. He has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from McGIll University
and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from the University of British Columbia.
|
|
|
|
 |
Luis Sousa Cardoso
Senior Consultant on Quality, Fraud & Security
QSDG Chairman
FIINA President – (Portugal Telecom)
|
CARDOSO was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1948 and joined to CPRM-MARCONI in 1970 to work in the Network Operations area.
He is currently a Senior Consultant and is engaged as Quality of Service, Fraud and Network Security Manager within Portugal
Telecom/Long Distance Communications. His previous assignments have included technical and management positions in the areas
of planning, quality control and traffic engineering.
He was Company representative to CCITT Study Group 1 during 1984-1988 study period and has been company representative to CCITT
Study Group 2 and Quality of Service Development Group since 1985.
Since March 92 he is acting as Chairman of Quality of Service Development Group (ITU) and as Coordinator of
Fraud Prevention Project.
In addition he has been the Company representative in FIINA (Forum International Irregular Network Access) in which he
became member of the Executive Committee during 1995 and was appointed as President in October 2001 being re-elected in 2005.
He is participating in the ETNO Working Groups on matters as Information Security, Telecommunications Fraud Control and
Quality of Service, and since September 2001 he is acting as Chairman of the Working Group on "Fraud Control and Network Security"
He has served for four years in the Portuguese Army as a Management Engineering Officer for Special Forces. He has worked as a
Consultant on the Telecommunications Security area for several companies in USA, Europe, Africa and Asia, and acting as Vice
President of the Portuguese National Quality Committee for Information Technology. He is member of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, Inc. and of Computer Society. Since June of 1996 he is an active member of the New York Academy of
Sciences.
He is also acting as President of two private companies: LSCTeam and Digital Forensic.
|
|
|
|
 |
Rodolfo Ceruti
Session Chairman
Telecom Italia
|
Rodolfo Ceruti received the doctoral degree in Physics from the University of Torino. He joined the Electroacoustic Department
of CSELT (Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni) in 1968, where he was involved in telephonometrics, transducer and
telephone set design, teleconferencing and videoconferencing. He is currently in charge of the Accredited Testing Laboratory
operations within the Innovation and Engineering department of Telecom Italia.
As a Rapporteur in SG12 of ITU-T, Mr Ceruti has contributed to the development of the ITU Recommendations on Artificial Ears,
Artificial Mouth and Head and Torso Simulator for telephonometric testing. He is currently Chairman of Working Party 1 in SG12
(Telephonometry, Terminals and Subjective Assessment).
|
|
|
|
 |
Paul Coverdale
Consultant
|
Paul Coverdale has been active for many years in both national and international Forums dealing with voice quality and performance,
including ITU-T, TIA, ETSI and IEEE. In particular, he has been participating in ITU-T SG12 since 1983, where he has held several
Rapporteur and Working Party Chair positions. He is currently a Vice-Chair of SG12 and Chair of WP3/12 “IP-related QoS and resource
management”.
Paul graduated with an Honours B. Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1971 from the University of Leeds (England), and
joined the British Post Office (now British Telecom) Research Department to work on telephony transmission performance assessment.
In 1974 he joined Bell-Northern Research (now Nortel Networks), in Ottawa, Canada, where he held a number of engineering and
management positions related to the specification, design, verification and standardisation of voice quality and performance
in wireline and wireless products. He took early retirement in 2004 and now acts a consultant in the area of QoS and performance
of telecommunications networks. He is a member of the IEE, IEEE, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of
Ontario, Canada.
|
|
|
|
 |
Dr. Olivier Dugeon
Expert Senior, France Telecom R&D
|
Mr. Dugeon holds as Engineering degree from the “Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences Appliquees et de Technologie”
(ENSSAT) and a PhD from the University of Rennes, France and is a Senior Expert in network architecture and network
engineering at France Telecom R&D.
His past research focused on the implementation of congestion control mechanisms in the framework of the RNRT ASIA project
and he was also involved in the European IST CADENUS project to define a global framework architecture for providing QoS in
IP networks. His current research is concerned with the architecture of IP QoS control in the framework of the IST EuQoS project
and he is the project leader of a France Telecom R&D, Resource Control project. In addition, he is an active contributor in the
definition of the QoS framework for the Home Network in the Home Gateway Initiative. However his main interest remains
inter-domain and end-to-end QoS control.
|
|
|
|
 |
Charles Dvorak
AT&T
|
Charles (Chuck) Dvorak has been with AT&T since 1982, when he joined Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. From 1984 -1990 he led the Voice
Quality Assessment Lab there. From 1990-1996 he managed various standards districts in Bedminster, NJ. Since 1996, Chuck has
managed the Strategic Standards Division, which is responsible for the external representation of standards positions that
support AT&T’s critical network and service requirements. Chuck is currently Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 12 (Performance
and QoS). He served (1994-1998) as chairman of ATIS’ Committee T1A1 and also was a board member of the Multimedia Communications
Forum.
Prior to joining AT&T, Chuck spent four years doing image quality research with Xerox Research in Rochester, NY. He received
B.E.E., M.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delaware.
|
|
|
|
 |
Nuno Encarnacao
OFCOM
|
From 1992 (~ 14 years) OFCOM,
Federal Office for Communications
Bienne, Switzerland
Telecommunications expert, scientific advisor
- Representing Swiss interest and positions in international activities
- Chairing working Groups,
- Vice-chairman of the essential requirements Group for the Radio and Telecommunications
Terminal Equipment Directive of the European Union
- Intensive activity at European level in standardisation and regulation
From 1997 to 2006 (9 years) ETSI,
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Sophia Antipolis, France
- Chairman of Technical Committees in ETSI, in the areas of Access and
Terminals [AT, ATA] http://www.etsi.org/at
Other activities (different time frames)
- Vice-chairman Steering Group for the application of the European Radio and Telecom Terminals regulation
- Editor of a list of standards in the context of the application of the European regulation for networks and services
- Active contributor to the studies on the application of the European regulatory documents in the area of terminals, networks and services
From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) UN ECE,
(United Nations,
Economic Commission for Europe,)
Genève, Switzerland
|
|
|
|
 |
Riccardo Fiandra
FASTWEB
|
Riccardo Fiandra joined FASTWEB soon after the foundation of the company in early 2001. Within the Network Engineering Department,
he actively contributed to the design of the IP communication infrastructure and led the planning and the design of
multicast-enabled network architectures and IP-TV services.
In 2002 he took responsibility for coordinating FASTWEB’s participation to several ITU and DSL Forum Study Groups: in this position
he was one of the primary contributors to the ITU-T J.241 standard (Quality of Service ranking and measurement methods for digital
video services delivered over broadband IP Networks).
Mr. Fiandra currently is Head of FASTWEB’s ICT Quality of Service Department, where he holds responsibility for guaranteeing
FASTWEB’s overall network and service performance.
Prior to joining Fastweb he worked for Ericsson and other major companies, always focusing on IP technologies and network design.
He has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Perugia.
|
|
|
|
 |
M. Frédéric Gabin
Standards Team Leader, 3GPP SA4 Vice chairman,
NEC Technologies
|
Frédéric has obtained a Masters degree in Electronics from the University of Paris VI in 1997 and a DEA degree of Digital
Communication Systems from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications of Paris, France in 1998.
Frédéric joined the Advanced Studies department in Nortel Networks in February, 1998 where he performed research and
standardization work on speech and channel coding for AMR (at ETSI SMG11), Wideband AMR and the UMTS physical layer (at 3GPP RAN1)
as well as GSM AMR systems work for the GSM infrastructure. He participated in the Product Planning and Standards team, from
2000 onwards, where he contributed to the 3GPP GERAN standardization work.
Frédéric then joined NEC Technologies in 2001 as Senior Systems Engineer. Since then, he has performed architecture and systems
work aspects on NEC Third generation dual mode terminal platforms in parallel to his participation to 3GPP SA4.
In September 2003, Frédéric became leader of the NEC Technologies Standards team and the 3G Standards project. He was elected
Vice chairman of 3GPP SA4 in July 2003, and was reelected in 2005. Frédéric regularly attends 3GPP SA4 and SA.
|
|
|
|
 |
Dr.-Ing. H. W. Gierlich
HEAD acoustics GmbH
|
Dr.-Ing. H. W. Gierlich started his professional career in 1983 at the Institute for Communication Engineering at RWTH, Aachen.
In 1983 he received his diploma and from 1983 March to 1988 December he worked at the Institute for Communication Engineering
at RWTH, Aachen. In 1988 February he received a Ph. D. in electrical engineering. In 1988 he was the leader of the acoustic
research group at this institute. In 1989 he joined HEAD acoustics Inc. in Aachen as vice president. Since 1999 he is head of
the HEAD acoustics telecom division.
He is mainly involved in acoustics, measurement technology and speech transmission quality.
He is active in ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, IEEE, TIA, DKE and VDA and vice chair of the ETSI technical committee STQ.
He is author of more than 150 scientific papers and holds five patents. He is member of ASA, IEEE, VDE and DEGA where he is chair
of the “Speech Communication” committee.
|
|
|
|
 |
David Hands
BT/UK
|
David Hands has been working in the field of objective and subjective video quality assessment for the past ten years. He was
involved in the RACE II MOSAIC project that defined the internationally standardised continuous quality subjective assessment
method and is leading BT's development of objective video quality tools. He is co-chair of the VQEG multimedia group and is
an active member of ITU-T SG9 and ITU-R WP6Q.
|
|
|
|
 |
Michael van Hartskamp
Senior Scientist, Philips
|
Michael van Hartskamp is a senior scientist in Philips Research Europe where he has worked on home networking and in
particular Quality of Service for home networks. Recently his focus has been on the interoperability aspects of QoS.
He is a co-chair of the UPnP-QoS working committee.
He also holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
|
|
|
|
 |
Bela HAZKOTO
Technical expert, National Communications Authority, Hungary
|
Bela HAZKOTO is a technical expert of NCA, Hungary.
Born on 1939 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Bela Hazkoto lives since 1941 in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated from
Technical University, Budapest on 1968 and received BSC in E.E. as a microwave engineer.
Between 1958 – 1992 he has worked for ORION Radio and Electrical Company first as skilled-worker, then since 1968 as
engineer for department of microwave and data communications equipment. Between 1978 – 1992 he was head of ORION’s Quality
Assurance Department.
Since 1992 he work for National Communications Authority, Department of Technical and Technological Analysis. His
specialties are basically the wireless technologies, new services, analysis of international trends etc.
|
|
|
|
 |
Dr. Mike Hollier
CTO, Psytechnics
|
Dr Mike Hollier has been a technical pioneer and commercial champion for perceptual engineering over the last
15 years. His PhD was gained from Essex University for his work using auditory models to predict speech quality.
Between 1987 and 1999 he directed BT’s research into audio, video and multi-media performance assessment. Mike
left BT in December 2000 to become the CEO of Psytechnics Ltd and has been CTO since October 2002; acting as
Psytechnics’ technology evangelist while overseeing the research and development of a new generation of voice
and video products. Mike is a chartered engineer, a fellow of the University of Essex, a member of the UK
Institute of Directors and a member of the AES.
|
|
|
|
 |
Hendrik Knoche
Professor of Human-Centred Technology/Doctoral Student
University College London, UK
|
Hendrik Knoche received his Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg in 1999. Currently he is
pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at University College London, researching user experience in mobile multimedia applications.
|
|
|
|
 |
Claude Lamblin
Vice Chair ITU-T SG 16, France Telecom, France
|
Born on 12 March 1959 in France, Claude Lamblin graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications de
Bretagne in 1983, and received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, Canada, in 1988.
In 1983, she joined France Telecom Research Center (CNET) and studied speech and audio coding. Since 1989, she has been taking
an active part in the standardization process of speech coding algorithms in ETSI and ITU-T. She is a Senior Research Engineer
in the Speech and Sound Technologies & Processing Laboratory of France Telecom Research and Development Center where she managed
R&D projects on compression and multidimensional representation of multimedia content.
In 2003, she received the Blondel Medal awarded within the French Electricity, Electronics and information and communication
technologies Company (SEE) for her studies on algebraic vector quantization and their application to audio compression standards.
Since 2002, she is the Rapporteur of ITU-T Question 10/16 that deals with the maintenance and extension of existing voice coding
standards and software tools for signal processing standardization activities. In October 2004, Ms Lamblin was elected vice-chair
of ITU-T Study Group 16. Since then, she chairs SG16 Working Group 3 on Media Coding.
|
|
|
|
 |
Hui-Lan Lu, Ph.D.
Bell Labs Fellow and CMTS, Lucent Technologies
|
Dr. Hui-Lan Lu is the Rapporteur for ITU-T Q.4/13, which is responsible for developing, among other things, the new
draft Recommendation (Y.racf) on the NGN resource and admission control functions. A pioneer in IP-PSTN convergence
standardization, she has been active in the IETF, ITU-T and ATIS since 1995. Dr. Lu has many publications on the
subjects of mathematical programming, service creation, and network convergence, including the book entitled
"Converged Networks and Services: Internetworking IP with PSTN" (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Dr. Lu holds a Ph.D.
in Physics from Yale University.
|
|
|
|
 |
William Lupton
Standards Engineer (2Wire)
|
William Lupton is a Standards Engineer at 2Wire. He is a key contributor to the DSL Forum’s family of DSLHome
standards and is co-editor of several active documents, including PD-128 (Interoperability Test Plan for TR-069
Plugfests) and WT-135 (Data Model for a TR-069 Enabled STB). He also plays an active role in the Home Gateway
Initiative and monitors activity in the UPnP Forum, the DLNA, and other standards organizations. In addition,
he spends part of his time developing management software for 2Wire’s Home Gateway. He received the DSL Forum’s
Circle of Excellence award at the recent Q1 2006 meeting in Vienna.
Prior to working at 2Wire, William worked at Conexant Systems, where he was co-chair of the UPnP Forum Gateway
Working Group, at the AT&T Cambridge Research Laboratory, and at a variety of observatories in the United Kingdom,
Australia and the United States. William holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in England.
|
|
|
|
 |
Patrick Luthi
Manager of Technical Standards, Tandberg
|
Patrick Luthi is Manager of Technical Standards at TANDBERG and a member of the Research and Development Department.
He is currently the Rapporteur for the ITU-T multimedia systems, terminals and data conferencing Experts group (Q1/16),
the chairman of the IMTC Network Infrastructure, Protocols and Systems Working Group, the IMTC Vice-President for EMEA,
and the Editor of the ITU-T H.320 series, H.246 and other Recommendations. He joined TANDBERG in 2002 after having worked
9 years for PictureTel where he held several R&D positions.
|
|
|
|
 |
PD Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller
Fellow, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin
|
Sebastian Möller was born in 1968 and studied electrical engineering at the universities of Bochum (Germany), Orléans (France)
and Bologna (Italy). From 1994 to 2005, he held the position of a scientific researcher at the Institute of Communication
Acoustics (IKA), Ruhr-University Bochum, and worked on speech signal processing, speech technology, communication acoustics,
as well as on speech communication quality aspects. Since 2005, he is a Fellow at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin,
working on quality and usability.
He received a Doctor-of-Engineering degree at Ruhr-University Bochum in 1999 for his work on the assessment and prediction of
speech quality in telecommunications, and gained the qualification needed to be a professor (venia legendi) at the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Ruhr-University Bochum in 2004, with a book on the quality of telephone-based
spoken dialogue systems.
Sebastian Möller was awarded the GEERS prize in 1998 for his interdisciplinary work on the analysis of infant cries for early
hearing-impairment detection, the ITG prize of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE)
in 2001, and the Lothar-Cremer prize of the German Acoustical Association (DEGA) in 2003. Since 1997, he has taken part in the
standardisation activities of ITU-T on transmission performance of telephone networks and terminals. He is currently acting as a
Co-Rapporteur for questions Q.8/12 and Q.12/12.
|
|
|
|
 |
Jean-Yves Monfort
France telecom
|
Currently Deputy Director of Standards Steering in France Telecom, and Senior Expert in France Telecom.
During 5 years, he was Deputy Head of DIH/EQS Laboratory (Human Interactions/ Evaluation and acceptability
of Services Quality), in charge of studies on subjective and objective assessment of media (speech, video, audio,…)
and of Usability testing of new equipments and services.
He was before Manager of Research and Development Units specialized in voice transmission quality, telephony terminals
and Electroacoustics.
Doctor Engineer of Applied Acoustics, Le Mans
Electronics Engineer, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse
Currently Chairman of ETSI TC STQ (since October 2004), and Vice Chair of APSC-Telemov.
He is the author of a lot of technical specifications for France Telecom, France, of ETSI standards
and ITU-T Recommendations, and of technical papers.
He gave numbers of conference on speech quality, performance and QoS in seminars, workshops and congresses,
including in close relationship with his activity of SG 12 Chairmanship (for APT, West
Africa, ETSI, ITU-T workshops,…)
General Secretary of French Acoustical Society during 5 years Professor of Electro-acoustics at the University
(Sound and mage) during more than 10 years. Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.
|
|
|
|
 |
Al Morton
AT&T
|
ALFRED C. MORTON is a Technical Consultant at AT&T Labs, Middletown, New Jersey. He has been a recognized
contributor and editor in US and international network performance standards committees for more than 20 years.
Al currently serves as Co-Chair of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force,
and Rapporteur of the IP Performance Question in ITU-T Study Group 12. He has participated in the work of IETF's IP
Performance Metrics Working Group, ITU-T Study Group 13 on various performance-related topics, and Technical Subcommittee T1A1
(Performance, Reliability, and Signal Processing). He began his engineering career working with Computer Sciences Corp. and the
US Army Satellite Communications Agency, where he was a Project Team Leader responsible for test and evaluation of satellite and
terminal systems. While at AT&T Bell Labs, he worked on facsimile transmission, data application performance analysis, customer
opinion modeling, video conferencing quality measurements, and network timing distribution and standards. He was appointed as a
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 1995. He earned his MS in Electronic Engineering at Monmouth College in 1983, after
receiving his BSEE there in 1977. His thesis topic was an Interference Rejection System for Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum
Communications. Raised on the Jersey Shore where he lives with his wife and daughter, Al will someday chuck-out all the
technology stuff and just go fishing or clam-digging. He holds two US patents.
|
|
|
|
 |
Christine Mugimba
Technical Officer, Licensing and Standards-Compliance, Uganda Communications Commission
|
Christine Mugimba is the Technical Officer for Licensing and Standards, specifically in charge of Compliance, with the
Uganda Communications Commission, the Regulator for the Communications sector in Uganda.
She has held this position since 1st May 2004 and has worked with the Commission for the last 6 years.
Her overall responsibility is to ensure consumers in Uganda receive an acceptable quality of service and network operators
and service providers comply with licensing conditions. Specifically, she carries out investigations related to compliance
with licensing conditions and setting standards including Quality of Service standards and as a way of protecting and
empowering consumers; she is in charge of preparing consumer Quality of Service information. Currently she is spearheading
development of Quality of Service requirements for the proposed new licensing regime for the Telecommunications Sector in Uganda.
She holds an MSc in Communications Systems and Signal Processing from University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and a BSc in
Electrical Engineering from Makerere University, Uganda. She is a born again Christian and married with one child. Christine
was born in January 1977.
|
|
|
|
 |
Slavica Nasteska, M.Sc.
Head of Telecommunications Department,
Agency for electronic communications of Macedonia
|
Born on 23rd April 1964 in Valjevo (Serbia), Slavica Nasteska graduated from “St. Cyril and Methodius” University –
Electro-technical Faculty in Skopje in 1987, where she obtained a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications.
From 1987 to 1992, she worked as an engineer in SW Research & Development Center of “IskraTel” (Slovenia), a company
designing public telecommunications solutions. Between 1988 and 1990, she was on assignment in the public telecommunications
business division of Siemens AG in Munich, where she specialized in Group Processor’s Software for the EWSD switching system.
Since 1992 she has worked as an engineer in the Macedonian Ministry for transport and communications, responsible for projects
in the areas of telephone switching and transmission systems, data communication networks and mobile networks. She took an active
part in preparing national legislation and regulation in the field of telecommunications. From the beginning of operational work
of the Telecommunications Directorate, a body within the Ministry of transport and communications responsible for regulation of
telecommunications in Macedonia, she has worked in the Telecommunications Directorate. She was responsible for control of
telecommunication activities and enforcement of the law.
The Agency for electronic communications of Macedonia, as an independent national regulatory authority, was established on the
1st of July 2005 and Slavica Nasteska is currently the Head of the Telecommunications Department. She is responsible for preparing
regulations and implementation of procedures for: notification of new public electronic communications network operators and service
providers, adopting standards for building and operation of public communications networks, numbering, interconnection, unbundling
the local loop, prescribing and control of parameters for quality of public communications services, regulating universal services,
adopting standards for telecommunications terminal equipment utilization.
Slavica Nasteska was elected as Secretary-General of the National Association of electro engineers in 2000 for the period 2000-03
and re-elected to this position for the period 2003-07.
|
|
|
|
 |
Kathleen Nichols
Pollere LLC
|
Kathleen Nichols is founder and CEO of Pollere LLC which provides specialized network consulting services. Prior positions
include Vice President of Network Science at Packet Design LLC, Director Advanced Internet Architectures in the Office of the
CTO at Cisco Systems, Inc., and positions at Bay Networks, Com21 Inc, Philips Research Labs, Apple Computer, AT&T Bell Labs.
She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley. She was the co-chair
of the (now closed) IETF Differentiated Services Working Group and the author of a number of IETF RFCs, published papers,
and talks on differentiated services and IP quality of service. A current project is the IP QoS architecture for TMOS
(TSAT Mission Operations System), working with Lockheed Martin and the TMOS team.
|
|
|
|
 |
Joachim Pomy
Senior Engineer, Avaya GmbH, Frankkfurt am Main
|
Joachim Pomy was born in Jugenheim, Germany, on 25 March 1960.
He received his Degree in Communications Engineering from Darmstadt Technical University in 1984.
The same year he joined the PABX branch of Telefonbau & Normalzeit in Frankfurt, Germany, which lateron became Telenorma,
thereafter Bosch Telecom and Tenovis and which is now Avaya. His work comprises of:
- PCM Technology
- Digital Signal Processing
- Speech Quality Aspects of Corporate Networks
- End-to-End Speech Communication Quality in an IP environment
- National and International Standardization Activities, such as:
- Chair of the working group for Corporate Network Speech Quality Aspects in the BITKOM organization in Germany
- Rapporteur and Editor for ETSI Technical Committee STQ and for ETSI Project TIPHON (precursor of "TISPAN")
- Vice Chair of ETSI Technical Committee STQ
- Vice Chair of the QoS sub committee of ETSI TISPAN
- Liaison Officer between ETSI STQ and TIA TR-41
- Secretary to the TIA TR.41.4 VoIP sub committee
- Vice-Chair of TIA TR41.3 Terminals subcommittee
- Rapporteur and Editor for ITU-T Study Group 12.
|
|
|
|
 |
Gunnar Rasmussen
G.R.A.S Sound & Vibration
|
Electronics engineer, graduated in Denmark in 1950. Employed at Brüel & Kjær Denmark since graduation in various
positions as e.g. successively in charge of the quality control, the development and the product planning. Duration
of employment 43 years.
Developed the original Brüel & Kjær microphone, microphone calibration. Hydrophones and vibration measuring
devices. Since 1980 manager of the innovation department especially concentrating on new measurement techniques
applied to the field of acoustics and vibration. Developed measurement microphones for intensity measurements and
the necessary calibration technique. Engaged in development of aircraft monitoring and certification measurements.
Noise control on machinery and vehicles. Space applications under 0 gravity. Source location underwater on ships,
etc. Telephone test equipment, artificial mouths, the original IEC 60711 and 60318 ears. Objective telephone test
stand, hearing aid equipment, etc.
Started in 1994 the company G.R.A.S. Sound & Vibration A/S, developing transducers and new microphones. Especially
outdoor microphones, intensity measuring devices, ears, mouths and telephone test equipment have been developed using
new techniques.
Author of numerous papers on acoustic and vibration subjects. Former chairman of ISO TC108/SC3 on Shock and Vibration
Instrumentation and Calibration techniques. Vice Chairman of the Commission on Acoustics under the International
Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Fellow of the American Acoustical Society.
Brüel & Kjær received the prize for his design of Sound Level Meters 1965.
Received Danish "Industrial Design" prize 1969 for the "Condenser Microphones 1/8", 1/4", 1/2" and 1".
Received 1990 the CETIM medal for contribution to the field of intensity techniques.
|
|
|
|
 |
Andrea J. Saks
Independent Accessibility Consultant
|
Andrea Saks has been involved in deaf telecommunications since the mid 1960s and is the daughter of one of the deaf founders of
the US TDD/TTY system. The United States was the first country to have deaf telecommunications. The deaf community was in fact
the first group to embrace text communications for personal communication over the telephone network long before the Internet.
Since 1991 starting with CCITT SG17, Ms Saks has been a delegate on US delegations to various ITU-T study groups; advising on
accessibility. As the SG groups and ITU-T changed and evolved, so did the work of Ms. Saks change; to include many more
accessibility issues and aspects other than those that just affect the deaf community with regard to equal access to ICT.
Ms. Saks is privately funded and has no commercial interest in her activities. Both her parents were deaf and she was the
“deaf telephone” for her family from the age of two years until the TDD/TTY liberated her. Her strong interest is not only
inspired by those who need to have access but for those who have in the past given and still give access to telecommunications
without recompense or recognition. They are the children, family members and friends of those who need the access that industry
still does not adequately provide. Her involvement promoting equal access in telecommunications has spanned over 40 years.
|
|
|
|
 |
M. Angela Sasse
Professor of Human-Centred Technology/Doctoral Student
University College London, UK
|
M. Angela Sasse is the Professor of Human-Centred Technology in the Department of Computer Science at University College London.
Since joining UCL in 1990, she has participated in or led more than a dozen projects in on design and usability issues in networked
multimedia systems, with a particular focus on assessing media quality and user experience. In recent years, her research has
focussed QoE in mobile applications and services.
|
|
|
|
 |
Volker Sypli
Dipl.-Ing., Federal Network Agency (Germany)
|
Volker Sypli was born in 1968 in Papenburg, Germany. He studied communication engineering at the University of Applied Science in
Dieburg, Germany, involving a 5 month stay at a partnership project on speech encoding at the École Nouvelle en Communication in
Lille, France.
After his graduation in 1994 he worked at the Federal Office for Posts and Telecommunications in Mainz, Germany, on type approvals
for voice telephony services and analogue access lines as well as interconnection of fixed telephone networks and Open Network
Provision. The Federal Office has been transferred to the Federal Network Authority, where Volker Sypli is responsible for technical
matters of the standardization and regulation of Quality of Service and Universal Services.
Currently he is taking part in the work of ITU-T Study Group 2 and 12 (Rapporteur of Question 10/12) as well as within ETSI TC/STQ
(Secretary of STQ). His focus is on the development of concepts for User QoS parameters and on quality requirements for the
Universal Service.
|
|
|
|
 |
Akira Takahashi
Group Manager of Service Assessment Group
NTT Service Integration Laboratories
NTT
|
Akira Takahashi was born in 1964. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from Hokkaido University in Japan in 1988 and an M.S.
degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in the United States in 1993. He joined NTT
Laboratories in 1988 and has been engaged in research into the quality assessment of speech and audio telecommunications.
He is now a manager of the research group that is responsible for the R&D of audio and visual service quality assessment in
NTT Service Integration Laboratories. He has been contributing to ITU-T SG12 since 1994. He received the Telecommunication
Technology Committee Award in Japan in 2004 and the ITU-AJ Award in Japan in 2005.
|
|
|
|
 |
Quan Huynh-Thu
Research Engineer, Psytechnics Ltd
|
Quan Huynh-Thu is Research Engineer for Psytechnics Ltd (UK). His main responsibilities include developing objective video
quality assessment models, refining existing methods of subjective assessment for multimedia-type applications and designing
psychophysical experiments.
He graduated from the University of Liège (Belgium) with a Degree of Electrical Engineering (Electronics) in 1997. Between 1997
and 2000, he was Research Scientist for the Belgian National Forensic Laboratory, where he collaborated in a European project
on the development of image enhancement and restoration techniques for the analysis of CCTV images. In 2000 he was awarded a
scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education for Postgraduate Research at the University of Electro-Communications in
Tokyo, where he received his Master of Engineering (Electronics) in 2003. During this period, his main research interests were
face detection and recognition.
He actively participates in standardization activities mainly within the ITU, ETSI and the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG).
|
|
|
|
 |
Arthur Webster
Rapporteur ITU-T SG9
|
Arthur Webster participates in several technical standards groups devoted to standardization of video and
multimedia quality assessment methods. He serves as Co-chair of the ITU Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG),
as Rapporteur of ITU-T Study Group 9’s Question 14/9 “Objective and subjective methods for evaluating
conversational audiovisual quality in multimedia services,” and as Study Group 9’s contact for the Joint
Rapporteur Group for Multimedia Quality Assessment (JRG-MMQA) between SG 9 and SG 12. He also works on the
development and standardization of priority, reliability, and security aspects of emergency telecommunications
services over next generation networks. He holds a BA in English and a MS in Electrical Engineering. For the
last 15 years he has worked for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Institute for
Telecommunications Sciences (NTIA/ITS) which is a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
|
|
|
|
 |
Lianshu ZHENG
Standards Engineer, Huawei Technologies CO., LTD
|
Born in Heilongjiang (China), Lianshu ZHENG graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1999,
and received a Master degree in electrical engineering from University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 2004.
Between 1999 and 2002, she worked as an engineer for China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), responsible for
projects in the areas of petroleum exploration.
Now, she is working for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, responsible for research in the NGN QoS.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
