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Programme Committee

​​​​​​​​Heung Youl Youm
 ITU-T Study Group17 Chairman
  
He is Chairman of ITU-T SG17 (Security). He is working as a professor for the Department of Information Security Engineering of the Soonchunhyang University, Korea from September 1990. He is currently the Director of SCH Cybersecurity Research Centre from Dec. 2013. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2003 and has actively contributed to the work of SG17 as a core member of security experts. He was an associate Rapporteur of SG 17 Question 10/17 from 2003 to 2004. For the Study Period (2005 – 2008), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 9/17. He was a Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 from 2009 to 2016. He was a Chairman of Working Party 2 (Application Security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2009–2012) and was a Chairman of Working Party 3 (Identity management and cloud computing security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2013–2016). He has been a Project Editor or Co-editor for many approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in the area of IPTV security, home network security, authentication protocol, USN security, mobile security, and cybersecurity. He was a president of KIISC (Korea Institute on information security and cryptology) in 2011 and is an emeritus president of KIISC. He had worked for ETRI as a senior research engineer from 1982 to 1990. He had been involved in developing high speed transmission system. He had been involved in many (advisory or self-performance evaluation) committees for the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) from 2008 to 2016, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) from 2013 to 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Energy (MoTIE) from 2015 to 2017. He has been involved in self-performance evaluation) committees for the Ministry of Science and ICT since 2017. He is a Chairman for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007 and had been the chairman for the committee on information security in the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games from January 2015 to May 2018. He received a Bachelor degree in 1981, a Master degree in 1983, and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, all in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea. ​​​

Julien Bringer
TC 307/WG 2 convenor, JWG 4 co-convenor


 

 

 


Salvatore Francomacaro
TC 307/JWG 4 co-convenor




 

 

 

​​​Yutaka Miyake
Study Group17/WP1 Chairman & 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.

 


 

Kyeong Hee Oh
Study Group17 Q14/17 co-rapporteur & CEO, TCA services

Kyeong Hee Oh, CEO of TCA services, Outside director of Korea Internet & Security Agency She is an information security professional with a 20+ years’ experience. She had participated the establishment of the evaluation criteria for information security product, of the national PKI, of ISMS certification scheme in Korea and developed the first draft of Privacy Information Management Systems in Korea. ​She has involved with the International standardization from 2010, she is now Co-rapporteur of ITU-T SG 17 Q14 Security aspects of distributed ledger technologies, liaison officer to TC 307 and FG-DLT, Korean delegation of ISO TC 307 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, and Head of Korean delegation of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 WG 1 Information Security Management.  

 
Youki Kadobayashi
​Study Group17 Q14/17 co-rapporteur​ & National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

Dr. Youki Kadobayashi has been assisting ICT regulatory agencies in Japan for 10 years as a subject matter expert. He has also been working within ITU-T Study Group 17 as the rapporteur of Q.4 (Cybersecurity) and more recently on Q.14 (DLT security). In addition to his service on international standards development, he also closely works with research communities worldwide to further progress the state of cybersecurity. Based on his working experience across research, standardization and education sectors, he firmly believes that promising new technologies can be transformed into technological infrastructure only after considerable amount of efforts by each of these sectors.
 

 

​Zhaoji Lin
Vice-chairman of ITU-T Study Group17 & ​ICT Security Standardization Director, ZTE​

Zhaoji Lin is the vice-chairman of ITU-T SG17 and vice-chairman of Working Party 3 of ITU-T SG17. Zhaoji works as an ICT Security Standardization director in the tecnical planning and development unit at ZTE Corporation. He is also active in many international and regional standards organizations, including Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) in the areas of device management, digital rights management, identity management, IoT security and cloud computing security. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many ITU-T recommendations, OMA specifications and CCSA standards.

 

 


Herbert Bertine
Former ITU-T Study Group17 Chairman 

Herbert Bertine is a former chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 and previously Study Group 7, having served from 1993 to 2008. He has been actively involved in the standards work of the ITU since 1975 and has held senior leadership positions for 28 years. He has devoted extensive efforts in facilitating cooperation with SDOs. Herb also has been active in other arenas dealing with ICT standards including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 and ANSI. He was instrumental in developing the collaborative procedures between ITU-T and JTC 1 (reflected in Rec. A.23) and in establishing the cooperative procedures with the IETF. Herb retired in November 2007. He was Director, Standards at Lucent Technologies where he led Lucent's standards efforts worldwide. He joined Bell Laboratories in June 1965 and spent his career in communication technologies. This included systems engineering work on modems, digital data systems, X.25 packet networks, open systems, and advanced communication systems. Since 1982, he had various responsibilities for corporate-wide standards management. In October 2006, Herb was awarded the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal for outstanding technical and managerial leadership in establishing international information technology and telecommunications standards and the methods by which they are produced. Herb has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
 
Xiaoya Yang
ITU-T Study Group17 Counsellor
 
Ms. Xiaoya Yang is the Head of the WTSA Programmes Division in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-TSB). She was the Co-counselor of ITU-T Study Group 2 on 'Operational aspects of service provision and telecommunications management' and Study Group 3 on 'Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues' from 2009 to 2010; Counselor of ITU-T  Study Group 17 on 'Telecommunication security' from 2007 to 2008; and Workshop Project Coordinator from 2004 to 2006. Before joining ITU, she worked in the Ministry of Information Industry of China from 1998 to 2004. There she was the division director responsible for regulation of Internet and information security. From 1997 to 1998 she worked in China Telecom as a network engineer and service manager in their Internet service department. She has a M.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China and a MBA from Hongkong Polytechnic University.​