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Rui L. Aguiar Professor, Institute of Telecommunications/DETI, University of Aveiro Rui L. Aguiar received his degree in telecommunication engineering in 1990 and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Aveiro. He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, responsible for the networking area, and has been previously an adjunct professor at the INI, Carnegie Mellon University. He was a Visiting Research Scholar at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil. He is coordinating a research line nationwide in Instituto de Telecomunicações, on the area of Networks and Multimedia. He is the current Chair of the Steering Board of the Networld2020 ETP. He is currently advising the Portuguese Government on 5G policies. His current research interests are centred on the implementation of advanced wireless networks and systems, with special emphasis on 5G networks and the Future Internet. He has more than 500 published papers in those areas, including standardization contributions to IEEE and IETF. He has served as technical and general chair of several conferences, from IEEE, ACM and IFIP, and is regularly invited for keynotes on 5G and Future Internet networks. He is senior member of IEEE, Portugal ComSoc Chapter Chair, and a member of ACM.
Sundeep Bhandari Strategy Manager (Digital), National Physical Laboratory Sundeep is Strategy Manager (Digital) for the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL). NPL is owned by the UK government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and is a world-leading National Measurement Institute, responsible for measurement strategy and delivery in the UK. Measurements and standards are key to effective digital infrastructure; Sundeep’s work focuses on shaping the evolution of physical metrology into the ‘cyber-physical’ world, embedding measurement into processes using digital and data sciences to deliver confidence in the intelligent and effective use of data. The largest component of his work relates to digital infrastructure, developing and guiding future communications initiatives at NPL. His work (alongside government, industry and academia) identifies that future networks will be key to economic productivity and realisation of the digital economy. But, developing future networks that will underpin new technologies and business models is far from straightforward. Emerging technologies such as Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), Software Defined Networks (SDN) and quantum communications, for example, will affect how networks are designed, as is an increasingly competitive industry landscape where the boundary between traditional telecoms and IT is fast disappearing. There is a growing need to ensure that the telecommunications infrastructure of the future supports the demands of services, are resilient and secure, and that the traceable measurement underpinning for future converged, interoperable and automated networks is developed and in place to realise the benefits of digital transformation across sectors and society. Sundeep is also a member of the UK5G Testbeds and Trial Working group that evaluates and supports the UK governments 5G programme.
Bernard Barani European Commission Bernard Barani joined the European Commission in 1994 after 11 years as Communication engineer in industry on military optical systems and then with the European Space Agency on advanced satcom programmes. Since 1994, he has been responsible for the strategy and the implementation of European research and policy issues in wireless communication, audion visual systems, RFID, Internet of Things and networked enterprise systems. He is currently Deputy head of unit in the CONNECT Directorate General of the European Commission where he leads the definition and implementation of the 5G Public Private Partnership launched in 2013, the industrial EC initiative to support 5G European R&D and deployment. Main field of activities covers strategic R&D planning and implementation including future beyond 5G systems, standardisation, international cooperation, demonstration and pilot programmes, and the implementation of the 5G Action Plan launched in 2016 to support early 5G deployment in Europe. He is also vice chairman of the Steering committee of the EUCNC conference, the main showcasing event for telecom research sponsored by the EU programmes. He has an engineering degree from the "Ecole National Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne".
Mehdi Bezahaf Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University Mehdi Bezahaf is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Sorbonne Université in 2010. With a demonstrated history of working in academia and industry, his research interests include experimental networking, mobility management, wireless networks, Internet architecture, and network virtualization.
Stuart Clayman University College London Stuart Clayman received his PhD in Computer Science from University College London in 1994. He is currently a Principle Research Fellow at UCL EEE department, and he has worked as a Research Lecturer at Kingston University and at UCL. He co-authored over 50 conference and journal papers. His research interests and expertise lie in the areas of software engineering and programming paradigms; distributed systems; virtualised compute and network systems, network and systems management; sensor systems and smart city platforms, and artificial intelligence systems. He has been involved in several European research projects since 1994. He is currently a leader in the NECOS Network Slicing project, looking at cross domain slicing and orchestration for Networks and Data Centers. He also has extensive experience in the commercial arena undertaking architecture and development for software engineering, distributed systems and networking systems. He has run his own technology start-up in the area of NoSQL databases, sensor data, and digital media.
Alexander Clemm Distinguished Engineer at Futurewei’s Future Networks and Innovation Group Dr. Alexander Clemm (alex@futurewei.com) is a Distinguished Engineer at Futurewei’s Future Networks and Innovation Group in Santa Clara, California. He has been involved in networking software and management technology throughout his career, most recently in the areas of high-precision networks and future networking services as well as network analytics, intent-based networking, service assurance, and telemetry. Alex has 50+ publications, 50+ issued patents, 12 RFCs, and is author or editor of several books (including "Network Management Fundamentals"). He has also been serving on the OC and TPC of top management and network softwarization conferences for many years, including IEEE IM/NOMS, CNSM, and NetSoft. Alex holds an M.S. degree in computer science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Munich, Germany.
Luis M. Contreras Telefónica Global CTO Unit Luis M. Contreras earned a Telecom Engineer degree at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (1997), and holds an M. Sc. on Telematics from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (2010). Since August 2011 he is part of Telefónica Global CTO unit, working on SDN, virtualization, 5G transport networks and their interaction with cloud and distributed services, as well as on interconnection topics. He is part-time lecturer at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. Before the position in Telefónica he worked in Alcatel and Orange. He is actively involved in research and innovation activities participating in a number of EU and ESA funded projects, and active contributor to some standardization bodies such as IETF (authoring 5 RFCs).
Luis M. Correia Professor in Wireless&Mobile Communications, University of Lisbon Luis M. Correia was born in Portugal, in 1958. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST (University of Lisbon) in 1991, where he is currently a Professor in Wireless&Mobile Communications, with the research activities developed in the INESC-ID institute. He has acted as a consultant for the Portuguese telecommunications operators and regulator, besides other public and private entities, and has been in the Board of Directors of a telecommunications company. Besides being responsible for research projects at the national level, he has participated in 31 projects within European frameworks, having coordinated 5. He has supervised more than 200 M.Sc./Ph.D. students, having edited 6 books, contribute to European strategic documents, and authored more than 500 papers in international and national journals and conferences, for which served also as a reviewer, editor and board member. Internationally, he was part of 36 Ph.D. juries, and 63 research projects and institutions evaluation committees for funding agencies in 10 countries and the European Commission. He has been the Chairman of Conference, of the Technical Programme Committee and of the Steering Committee of various major conferences. He was active in the European Net!Works platform, by being an elected member of its Expert Advisory Group and of its Steering Board, and the Chairman of its Working Group on Applications.
Richard Li FG NET-2030 Chairman and Head of Network Technologies Lab, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Network Technologies of Futurewei Technologies Inc., Huawei R&D USA Dr. Richard Li is the Head of Network Technologies Lab, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Network Technologies of Futurewei Technologies Inc., Huawei R&D USA. Richard also serves as the Chairman of the ITU-T FG Network 2030. Previously he was the Vice Chairman of the European ETSI ISG NGP (Next-Generation Protocols) from January 2016 to December 2019. He has also served as Chair of steering committees and technical program committees of some academic and industrial conferences. Prior to joining Futurewei, he worked with Cisco and Ericsson in the field of networking technologies, standards, solutions and operating systems. Richard is extremely passionate about advancing data communications technologies and solving problems in their entirety, thus creating a bigger and long-term impact on the networking industry. During his career, Richard spearheaded network technology innovation and development in Routing and MPLS, Mobile Backhaul, Metro and Core Networks, Data Center, Cloud and Virtualization. Currently he leads a team of scientists and engineers to develop technologies for next-generation network architectures, protocols, algorithms, and systems in the support of forward-looking applications and industry verticals in the context of New IP and Network 2030.
Jun Liu Assistant professor at Institute for Network Science and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University Jun Liu received the Ph.D. degrees from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China in 2011 and worked as a lecturer with college of information science and engineering from 2011-2016 in Northeastern University. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2016 -2018 in CECA Dept. at Peking University. She is currently an assistant professor at Institute for Network Science and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University. Her research interests focus on wireless networks、integrated satellite-terrestrial network and network security. She has authored/ coauthored more than more than 40 refereed IEEE journal papers and IEEE conference proceeding papers with MobiCom 2017 Best Community Paper Award and NaNA2018 Best Paper Award.
Christian Maciocco Principal Engineer and Director of Telecom Systems Research in Intel Labs Christian is a Principal Engineer and Director of Telecom Systems Research in Intel Labs working on platform and communications research in Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Christian is Intel’s board member representative to the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Technical Committee, member of the ONF Open Mobile Evolved Core (https://www.opennetworking.org/omec/) Technical Steering Team, Intel’s Principal Investigator of an Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC), co-funded with AT&T, at UC Berkeley (http://span.cs.berkeley.edu) with co-PIs at Stanford, CMU, Princeton, and EPFL, as well as PI of a newly created ISTC at UC Berkeley, co-funded with VMWare, on Edge Computing. Previous work included wireless communication, system energy efficiency, media streaming and IP telephony, DTV data broadcast, optical networking, as well as representing Intel in standards organizations like the IETF, ATM Forum, and ATSC. Christian has 58 patents granted, on-going patent applications, co-authored 34 publications including three best paper awards, and received two Intel Achievement Awards, Intel’s highest award. He earned a Diplôme d’Ingénieur - Ecole Spéciale de Mécanique & Electricité – Paris.
Kiran Makhijani Principal Research Scientist, Network Technologies Lab, Futurewei USA Kiran Makhijani is Principal Research Scientist at Network Technologies Lab, Futurewei USA. Her current work involves exploration of the new internet architecture, technologies and protocols. In this regard, she has contributed to standards & research activities at ETSI, ITU, IEEE, and ACM organizations. In her current role, Kiran has helped develop the vision of Network 2030, mainly on new communication services and their performance targets. Her research focus is on identifying limitations in the current network architectures and developed technology solutions such as cloud scale routing protocols, identity orientated networking, backhaul optimizations and network slicing. Prior to joining Futurewei, Ms Makhijani worked with Cisco and has led a broad array of industry projects in the forwarding and routing systems, designed scalable and reliable routing platform, policy-based routing and virtual network architectures.
Yutaka Miyake Senior Manager, Technology Strategy Department, KDDI Corporation Dr. Yutaka Miyake has been engaged in the research on high-speed communication protocol and secure communication system at the KDD R&D Laboratories and KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. He is currently a senior manager of Technology Strategy Department in KDDI Corporation, and is also a senior manager of Smart Security Laboratory in KDDI Research Inc. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005 and has been actively contributing to its activities as information security experts. He is a vice chair of ITU-T SG17, and a chair of WP1/SG17 from March 2017.
Judicaël Vivien Monde Business Development Manager for Middle East & Africa (LTE & path to 5G), Nokia Holds a Master degree in Telecommunication Networks from University Paris 13 and CNAM. With Nokia since 2009, currently working in as Business Development Manager for Middle East & Africa (LTE & path to 5G). Previously worked in Nokia as Optical Networks Engineer then Trials Manager; before joining Nokia was working in Hewlett-Packard as Software Engineer.
Luis Olumene Lecturer, São Tomas University of Mozambique Luis Roberto da Silva Olumene has 2, two, Master's degrees in the research area of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences and also holds a degree in Electrical Engineering both by Eduardo Mondlane University. The signatory has 25 Years of Technical Experience, at Moçambique Telecom (Tmcel). He is a Pioneer, in Mozambique, of the 1st Technical Course on Networks of the Future and Technological Trends, held at Superior Institute of Transport and Communications. Actually, he teaches the subject "Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks" at São Tomas University of Mozambique.
George Pavlou Professor of Communication Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK George Pavlou is Professor of Communication Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK. He received a Diploma in Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from University College London. His research interests focus on networking and network management and include aspects such as network resource management, quality of service, network programmability and content-based networking. In 2011 he received the IEEE/IFIP Dan Stokesbury bi-annual award for “distinguished technical contributions to the growth of the network management field" while in 2017 he was elected Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to network resource management and content-based networking".
Xavier Priem Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol for the Smart Internet Lab (Smart) Xavier Priem currently is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol for the Smart Internet Lab (Smart). He contributes to the definition of mid and long-term vision paths (horizon 2030) and developing research, funding and partnering strategies to enable this vision. His research is focusing on the alignment of current and future telecom technologies with the development and launch of innovative, disruptive and sustainable business models, Connectivity as a Utility, enabling all vertical industries and communities. With his more than 25 years long industry career (from Corporate Research to Global Portfolio Management). Xavier has an extensive experience working for and with multiple telecom suppliers and their customers (over 80 fix and mobile operators worldwide), as well as Airports, Rail (Wi-Fi on Train and multi-link backhaul including Satellite), Automotive, Logistics, Manufacturing, Smart Cities and Energy vertical sectors. He is a strong advocate in the community for Connectivity becoming fully pervasive and thus the 4th Critical Utility, enabling all other industry sectors’ innovation roadmaps.
Yongmao Ren Associate professor and the director of the network architecture and system lab of the advanced network department at the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Dr YONGMAO REN is currently an associate professor and the director of the network architecture and system lab of the advanced network department at the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has been a PI for more than 10 research projects. He has published nearly 70 peer-reviewed papers, owns over 10 patents and contributed to 2 ITU-T proposals. His current research interests mainly include future network architectures and protocols, 5G/B5G networks, and mobile edge computing, etc.
Ioannis Selinis Research Fellow, University of Surrey Ioannis Selinis received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from University of Piraeus, Greece, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He is currently a research fellow and pursuing a Ph.D in electronic engineering from the Institute for Communications Systems (ICS) home of the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey. His main research interests include wireless communications and networking, performance evaluation and design of protocols to support immersive technologies in future networks.
Vishal Shrivastav PhD student, Cornell University Vishal Shrivastav is a PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell advised by Hakim Weatherspoon. His research interests are primarily in the field of computer networking with a special focus on datacenter networking. Prior to Cornell, Vishal was an undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Jianglong Wang IP and Future Network Research Center, China Telecom Research Institute Jianglong Wang holds a master's degree in infromation and communnication engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He works in IP and Future Network Research Center, China Telecom Research Institute, currently concentrating on the Innovation Network architecture, Cloud-Network Interacting, Datecenter network, IP & SDN/NFV technoglogies, etc. He is active in IETF/IRTF, ITU-T and CCSA, and now he is the deputy group leader of the Network 5.0 Alliance.
Shen Yan Senior Engineer of the Network Technology Laboratory, 2012Lab, Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. Dr. Shen YAN received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 2014. He joined Huawei Technologies 2016. He is the Senior Engineer of the Network Technology Laboratory, 2012Lab, Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. and in charge of standardization and promotion works. His research interests include Intelligence Driven Network, Mobile IP, and future network architecture. He is active in IETF, ITU-T, and ETSI standard work. He has been the general chairman/co-chairman of INFOCOM New IP workshop and IEEE NetSoft ETSN workshop.
Sophie Zhang Senior expert of China Telecom Research Institute Senior expert of China Telecom Research Institute, and long-term research experience on core network, SDN/NFV and key technologies of future network. Act as Vice-Chairman of ITU-T FG NET 2030, Rapporteur of ITU-T SG13 Q2 Network Evolution based on SDN/NFV, Group leader of CCSA TC3 WG1(Network Group), Vice-Chairman of Communication Network Professional Committee of Beijing Communication Society, and Two-term Expert Members of Core Network Group of China Telecom Science and Technology Commission. In 2014, she won the honor of "Top Ten Promoters of International Standardization" selected by China Standardization Association.
Xiuli Zheng Network Technology Laboratory of Huawei Xiuli Zheng works in Network Technology Laboratory of Huawei. She joined Huawei in 2010 after receiving her Master’s Degree at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Her main research interests include the new internet architecture, technologies and protocols. She is actively participating in industry promotion and standardization, including ITU-T, IETF, IRTF, CCSA and N5A. She is currently the Deputy Secretary-General of CCSA TC614 and Network 5.0 Alliance.