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Duncan Earl President & Chief Technology Officer, Qubitekk Inc., United States Dr. Duncan Earl is the President and co-founder of Qubitekk, a California based manufacturer of quantum components and communication security systems. Prior to founding Qubitekk in 2013, Dr. Earl spent 18 years working as an optical researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has numerous patents and research publications to his name and is a serial entrepreneur.
Yuan Gu Chief Standard Engineer, ZTE Corporation, China Dr. Yuan Gu is a chief standard engineer and member of quantum information technology committee at ZTE Corporation. With more than 20 years of work experience in R&D of optical transport networks and relevant fields, Dr. Gu has served as development engineer, system engineer, standard project manager and director, and engaged in a large range of R&D work on SDH, WDM, OTN, PTN, transport SDN, 5G transport, QIT for networks, QKD etc. He received his PhD from the department of Optoelectronics Engineering, Chongqing University, China in 1998. He currently serves as the subgroup learder and chief editor of deliverable D1.2 (Technical Report on QIT4N use case part 1: Network aspects of Quantum Information Technology) of ITU-T FG_QIT4N.
Marc Kaplan CEO, VeriQloud, France Marc Kaplan has worked in the area of quantum information for more than ten years. He graduated from University Paris-Sud and worked in Montreal with Gilles Brassard, the co-inventor of quantum cryptography. Before founding VeriQloud, his research has focused on using quantum algorithms to break classical cryptographic systems, and on the design of quantum-resistant alternatives. He is the CEO of VeriQloud, a company developing solutions for long-term security based on quantum communication.
Hans Hyungsoo Kim Director, Quantum Infra Innovation Project, Infra Lab., KT (Korea Telecom) corp. Hans Hyungsoo Kim has worked at KT (Korea Telecom) corp. R&D part from 1993. He had successfully led outstanding projects in relation to B-ISDN (Broadband-Integrated Digital Network), NGN (Next Generation Network), IP QoS (Quality of Service), Green ICT, Smart Grid, 5G and AI. Now he is responsible for leading the Quantum Technologies, as a Director of Quantum Infra Innovation Project in KT. Dr. Kim has a Ph.D. in electronics engineering from Kon-Kuk University. In addition to his role in KT, Dr. Kim has participated ITU-T based international standards activities, since 1997. Now he is working as a vice-chairman for ITU-T Study Group 13, Chairman of Working Party 1/SG13 and a vice-chairman of FG QIT4N.
Ming-Han Li Senior researcher, CAS Quantum Network Co., Ltd, China Dr. Ming-Han Li is a senior researcher at CAS Quantum Network Co., Ltd. He obtained his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His research interests are Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNGs) and loophole-free bell test. Dr. Li joined CAS Quantum Network in 2020 and also serves as leader and chief editor of deliverable D1.1 Technical Report on Network aspects of QIT in the ITU-T Focus Group on Quantum Information Technology for Networks (FG-QIT4N).
Zhangchao Ma Senior Consultant, CAS Quantum Network, China Zhangchao Ma is an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China and a senior consultant in CAS Quantum Network Co., Ltd. He also serves as the ITU-T FG-QIT4N WG2 Chair, Q16/13 associate rapporteur, and CCSA ST7 WG2 co-chair.
James Nagel Lead Photonic & Laser Systems Engineer, L3Harris Technologies, United States Dr. James Nagel is a Lead Photonic & Laser Systems Engineer at L3Harris Technologies Space and Airborne Systems, with over 15 years of experience across large and small businesses in both the commercial and aerospace industry. His primary technical expertise covers the field of lasers and optics at the component and system/application level. Specific areas include photonic devices, nonlinear optics, fiber lasers, free-space optical communications, LIDAR and remote sensing applications, as well as quantum communications. In his current role, Dr. Nagel is responsible for optical communications and networking efforts within L3Harris, leading multiple customer-funded and Internal Research & Development programs and serving as the Chief Technologist of L3Harris’ Quantum Communications Solutions group. He holds a PhD in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. Since its establishment in 2019, James also serves as co-chair of the ITU-T Focus Group on Quantum Information Technology for Networks (FG-QIT4N).
Andreas Poppe Senior Project Co-ordinator, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria Andreas Poppe studied Telecommunication Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. There he received his Ph.D. degree at the Photonics Institute in 2000 supervised by Prof. Ferencz Krausz for researching on femtosecond lasers and frequency combs. Afterwards he commercialized his research results at the spin-off SME-company Femtolasers GmbH. In 2002 he joined the quantum cryptography project at the Institute of Experimental Physics (University of Vienna) headed by Prof. Anton Zeilinger, where he designed an entangled QKD-system, included in the QKD-network demonstration of the European project SECOQC. Between 2008 and 2015 Andreas was senior scientist at the Optical Quantum Technologies group of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, where he was the leader of the QKD systems development team. In 2015 he moved to the Optical and Quantum Communications Laboratory at the Munich Research Center of Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH as a senior expert leading technical developments of a novel CV-QKD system. Late 2019 he returned to AIT to participate to the co-ordination team of the EU testbed project OpenQKD to prepare future QKD deployment.
Yoshimichi Tanizawa Chief Research Scientist, Toshiba Corporation, Corporate Research & Development Center Yoshimichi Tanizawa is a senior research scientist at Toshiba Corporation, Corporate Research & Development Center. He received his M.S. degree in Engineering from Keio University. His research interests include network system, network security, and QKD (quantum key distribution) system. He is currently working on QKD network system, QKD integration into applications, and QKD key management system. He is rapporteur of ETSI GS QKD 014 “Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Protocol and data format of REST-based key delivery API” in ETSI ISG-QKD. He was a recipient of the IPSJ Best Paper Award in 2012 and the Best Paper Award at SAINT 2012.
Chonggang Wang Principal Engineer/IEEE Fellow, InterDigital Communications, United States Chonggang Wang is a Principal Engineer at InterDigital Communications. He received his PhD degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2002. He has 20+ years of experience in the fields of wireless communications, networking, and computing, including research, development, and standardization. His current research interests include quantum internet, 6G cellular systems, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, decentralized and pervasive intelligence, and cybersecurity. He participates in industry standardization activities with IETF/IRTF, ETSI, oneM2M, 3GPP and IEEE; he received oneM2M Technical Excellence Award in 2018. Chonggang and his team actively engage in collaborations with the industry and leading universities/institutions to explore next-generation mobile networks and computing systems. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet of Things Journal and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network - The Magazine of Global Internetworking. He has been serving in many committees such as IEEE Computer Society Fellow Committee and IEEE Sensors Council Publication and Award Committee, and also is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to internet of things enabling technologies.
Yong Zhao CEO, QuantumCTek Co., Ltd., Chair, Quantum Information Association of China (QIAC), China Dr. Yong Zhao is the CEO of QuantumCTek Co., Ltd., the Chair of Quantum Information Association of China (QIAC). He obtained his bachelor’s degree from University of Science and Technology of China, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. His research interest is Quantum Information Processing with semiconductor system, with the working experience in Cavendish Lab in the University of Cambridge. Dr. Zhao joined QuantumCTek in 2009 and has operated the corporation to become the leader of China’s quantum information industry. QuantumCTek has provided commercial QKD system to most of the quantum-safe projects in China, including 2000km Beijing-to-Shanghai Backbone network and tens of metropolitan QKD networks with fruitful applications in many fields. He is committed to organizing more than 30 Chinese ICT corporations to jointly build a quantum security service platform, aiming to expand the quantum safe technology to be more widely accepted and applied.