 Martin Brand
Senior Specialist, A1 Telekom Austria
Martin Brand finished his communications engineering and information technology studies at the University of Zagreb in 1988. Since then, he has worked for A1-Telekom Austria and currently he is working in the department of Service Network Planning. Martin has been involved in the standardization of ISDN, ISUP and IMS protocols. His expertise covers also Quality of Service in the VoIP area. He is also active in several international standards organizations including ITU-SG11, ITU-SG16, ETSI TC INT and ETSI STQ. He was Vice chairman of WP4 ITU-T SG11 (2010-2013), Vice chairman of ITU-T SG11 (2013-2016), Chairman of WP4 ITU-T SG11 (2013-2016) and Chairman of ITU-T JCA-CIT (2013-2016). Martin Brand is editor of more than 100 ETSI Standards and ITU-T Recommendations. Currently he is Q.9 and Q.11 Rapporteur of ITU-T SG11 and Vice chairman of ETSI TC INT. |
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 Hakima Chaouchi
Full Professor at Telecom Sud Paris
Hakima Chaouchi is Full Professor at Telecom Sud Paris. After the completion of her PhD in 2004 from University of Paris VI in France and King's College of London in the UK she was apponted as Associate Professor at Telecom Sud Paris, Institut Mines Telecom until 2011. In this capacity, she develops leading research in wireless and mobile communication, Internet of Things, and network security. Hakima was also appointed to manage the European EIT Digital Doctoral Training Centre in Paris (DTC), which provides innovation support at the doctoral level in a strong connection to the industry. Concurrent with these positions, she was enrolled in the International Executive MBA "Leading Innovation in the Digital World" at Telecom Business School where she also acquired strong competencies in the field of strategic innovation and entrepreneurship in ICT. In her role as researcher for the last ten years, she leads a team devoted to the study of the emerging wireless technologies and their potential synergies, the analysis of every Internet of Things technology and the design of the most appropriate architecture and protocols for the vertical IoT application such as Industry 4.0, health and wellbeing, smart cities…etc. Hakima contributes to various research projects with consortiums of French, European and international experts. To date, she has co-published more than 100 international refereed scientific papers and books, most notably the book "Internet of Things" in 2010. |
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 Ying Cheng
International standardization supervisor, Technology Department, China Unicom
Ying Cheng serves as international standardization supervisor at China Unicom, managing the participation and coordination in relevant SDOs and open source communities for the company. She has more than 10 years research and network operation experience in information and telecommunications technologies and participants and contributes actively in the standardization activities of ITU-T, IETF, ETSI, and CCSA, on cloud computing, SDN, NFV and IMT-2020.
Currently, in ITU-T, she is working as the Rapporteur of Q4/SG11, Associate Rapporteur of Q19/SG13, and Vice-Chairman of JCA-IMT2020. She is the editors and major contributors of more than 10 published Recommendations and draft Recommendations.
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 Shin-Gak Kang
Director, Open Source Center, ETRI
Dr. Shin-Gak KANG works for ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) since 1984. Currently, he is a Director of Open Source Center of ETRI. Also, he is a professor of the Department of Information and Communication Network Technology of UST (University of Science and Technology), Korea since 2008. He is actively participating in various international standardization activities including a Vice-chairman of ITU-T SG11, Convenor of JTC1/SC6/WG7. He is now serving as a chairman of ITU-T WP2/11, working on the standardization for control and management protocols for IMT-2020. He is also actively participating in the IMT-2020 related activities of ITU-T SG13 as an Editor for Draft Recommendations on Terms and Requirements for IMT-2020 network. His research interests include Future Network, IMT-2020 network, contents networking, multimedia communications and applications, and various ICT converged services. |
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 Kwihoon Kim
Research Engineer, ETRI
Dr Kim studied at KAIST, and graduated with a M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in 2000 and 2013, respectively. He worked in LG DACOM between 2000~2005 and is now a research engineer in ETRI since 2005. He is the principal research engineer of intelligent IoE networking research team currently at ETRI. Since 2006, he is an editor and rapporteur of ITU-T SG11. His interest fields are Fog/edge computing, Internet of Things, 5G/IMT2020, deep learning, machine learning, reinforcement learning, GAN and knowledge-converged intelligent service. |
Namseok Ko
Technical Lead, Network research division, ETRI
Namseok Ko, Ph.D., is a Technical Lead in the network research division of ETRI, a non-profit research organization in Korea. He has involved in various research projects including the development of ATM switching systems, router systems, and 5G core network systems since he joined ETRI in 2000. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in KAIST in 2000 and 2015, respectively. He previously served as one of vice-chairs of ITU-T Focus Group IMT-2020 and now is a rapporteur of Q.20 of SG13 in ITU-T. His research interests include the area of SDN/NFV, ICN and 5G network. |
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 Andrey Koucheryavy
Chairman, ITU-T SG11
After graduating from Leningrad University of Telecommunications in 1974, Dr Koucheryavy joined Telecommunication Research Institute LONIIS, where he worked until October 2003 (from 1986 to 2003 as the First Deputy Director). Dr. Koucheryavy holds Professor position at the BonchBruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (SUT) since 1998. He is author and co-author of 334 papers, including papers in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Infocommunications Journal. He is also the co-founder of the International Testing Center for new telecommunications technologies at ZNIIS under ITU-D competence. He is currently ITU-T Study Group 11 Chairman. |
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 Gyu Myoung Lee
LJMU, KAIST, Chairman, FG-DPM
Gyu Myoung Lee is with the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK, as a Reader from 2014 and with KAIST Institute for IT convergence, Korea, as an Adjunct Professor from 2012. Prior to joining the LJMU, he has worked with the Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France, from 2008. Until 2012, he had been invited to work with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. He also worked as a research professor in KAIST, Korea and as a guest researcher in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, in 2007. His research interests include Internet of things, computational trust, knowledge centric networking and services, multimedia services, and energy saving technologies including smart grids. He has been actively working for standardization in ITU-T, IETF and oneM2M, etc., and currently serves as a WP chair in SG13, a Rapporteur of Q16/13 and Q4/20 as well as an the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on data processing and management (FG-DPM) to support IoT and smart cities & communities. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
He received his BS degree from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and his MS and PhD degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2007. |
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 Jongmin Lee
Lab leader, Media Infra Lab, SK Telecom
Dr. Jongmin Lee is a Lab leader of the Media Infra Lab in SK Telecom. His research area includes Wired/Wireless Media Streaming Tech. Contents delivery optimization, and management. Since 2012, he has joined in NGMN as a MCDO(Mobile Contents Delivery Optimization) as a project leader and he also involved in MPEG and ITU-T SG11 Q7 as a working group Chair and Editor, Jongmin has experience over a decade in media and telecommunication area over fixed and mobile IP networks. |
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 Chengjin Lv
China Unicom
Chengjin Lv achieved his master degree in traffic information engineering and control from Beijing Jiaotong University. Currently he works in China Unicom.
He has extended experience in research and design of metropolitan area network. He has also participated in some other projects such as DCI, SD-WAN and so on. |
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 Giulio Maggiore
Chairman of ETSI Core Network and Interoperability Testing (INT) Technical Committee
Mr Maggiore received his BS Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991, and Master in Information Technology and Telecommunication in 1992 by Politecnico of Turin.
He joined CSELT, R&D Telecom Italia Group in 1993. In 2000 Giulio joined TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) in Core Network Acceptance Testing. In 2006 he joined Telecom Italia in the Service Layer Engineering group. Since 2008 he is in Telecom Italia Mobile Core Network Engineering Group dealing with Mobile IMS, Packet Switch, WiFi offload and customer experience driven engineering. In his current position he is dealing with Core Network Quality and Optimizations.Member of IEEE and GSMA where in 2010 he led Network Efficiency Task Force Group. Giulio is Technical Program Committee member of several conferences, and author of several papers and lectures and has a patent on going for the VoLTE MOS calculation for the Voice calls.
He is also:
- Vice Chairman of ETSI Methods of Testing and Specification (MTS) Technical Committee from 2010 to 2012
- Chairman of CME Mobile User Group from 2010 to 2017
- Chairman of Test Sub Group within CME Mobile User Group since 2006
- Chairman of ETSI Core Network and Interoperability Testing (INT) Technical Committee since 2008 |
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Awad Mulah
Head of Testing laboratory at National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) Sudan
Mr Mulah is the Head of testing laboratory at the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) in Sudan, since 2013. He has previously worked as RF Optimization and Field Service Engineer in various organizations. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Computer Engineering in 2006. |
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 Luca Pesando
Telecom Italia
Luca has a PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Torino and twenty-five years of experience in Information and Communication Technologies with Telecom Italia. He is coordinator of the activities in standardisation for wireline technologies since 2006, managing the participation in the relevant standards bodies in collaboration with the coordinators of the other standardisation areas in the company.
He is co-Chairman of Working Party 1 (IMT2020 or 5G) of SG13 in ITU-T for the study period 2017-2020 and has been previously one of the vice-chairmen of the FG IMT2020 for the pre-standard activities.
In ETSI he is Chairman of the M493 WG in TC NTECH and has been previously Chair of the ETSI Project E2NA and the M493.In the past years he has been Vice-President of the Open IPTV Forum. Previously he worked in the optical communications and networking R&D fields, with management roles in internal and external collaboration and consultancy projects. He is inventor for several patents in TIM portfolio. |
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 Rustam Pirmagomedov
SPbSUT
In 2010 Mr Pirmagomedov graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunication (SPbSUT). In 2014, he received his Ph.D in SPbSUT, and his thesis was on the “Study of physical channel's failures in passive optical networks and development of methods for reliability prediction”, which was developed in collaboration with Rostelecom. The results of this research were successfully implemented, and currently are used for maintaining and designing of xPON access networks on the existing telecommunication networks. Currently, Mr Pirmagomedov is associate professor of the department of “Telecommunication Networks and Data Transmission” in SPbSUT. Since 2016 he has been focusing on research on medical applications of IoT as a member of the “Biodriver” project team. In addition, since 2016, he is also a paper reviewer of the International Conference on Advanced Communications Technology. His scientific interests include IoT, nanonetworks, body area networks, it-bio interfaces. |
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 Wang Rui
OSS Chief Engineer, ZTE Corporation
Wang Rui is an OSS Chief Engineer of ZTE Corporation. He received his bachelor degree in Telecommunication Engineering. His current major research areas include the SDN/NFV Future Assurance Architecture and future OSS AI trend analysis & practice. |
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 Haining Wang
Senior Standard Engineer and Researcher, China Telecom Beijing Research Institute
Senior Standard Engineer and Researcher at China Telecom Beijing Research Institute, with 10 years’ experience in telecom SDOs, actively participating and contributing in ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, IMT-2020 Promotion Group, CCSA, etc. Now serving as the Vice Chair of ETSI ISG ENI (Experiential Networked Intelligence), Rapporteur of ITU-T SG11 Q6 (Protocols supporting control and management technologies for IMT-2020), and Leader of AIAN (Artificial Intelligence Applied in Network) Group of SDNFV Industry Alliance in China. Now leading and taking part in some internal research projects related to network reconstruction within China Telecom. Main technical areas include 4G/5G network technologies, SDN/NFV, Network Artificial Intelligence, etc. |
 Yachen Wang
Deputy Director, Network Technology Dept, China Mobile Research Institute, President of ONAP Open Source
Mr. Yachen Wang is the Deputy Director of Network Technology Dept in China Mobile Research Institute, President of ONAP Open Source in Linux Foundation, and Vice-Chairman of ITU-T SG13 IMT-2020/5G Working Party.
Currently he is mainly leading in the research and development of Network evolution, NFV/SDN, 5G network architecture design, Novonet2020 in China Mobile.
Mr. Yachen Wang has much experience in international standardization activities and collaborations, and has 13 years working experience in telecommunication network technology areas. He was also leading in several important projects in China Mobile, such as China Mobile Network evolution strategy and roadmap, VoLTE, CDN, Web and IMS convergence, IMS Virtualization, FMC and also enterprise converged communication etc.
Mr.Yachen Wang achieved his master degree in computer science at the University of York in UK. He also got his bachelor degree in electronic & information engineering at Nanjing University in China. |
 Xia Xu
Lead member of Innovation 5G slice for Vertical Industry, China Telecom
Mr. Xia Xu graduated in 2005 from Chonbuk National University (South Korea) with a Master of Science degree in Information and Communication. He has been with China Telecom since 2012 and his activities mainly focus on core network. Now he is a pioneer for 5G in China where he is lead member of Innovation 5G slice for Vertical Industry in China Telecom, currently he works tightly with State Grid for creating a smart grid network. |
