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Marco Carugi Consultant on advanced ICTs and associated standardization, Huawei Research Contractor Mentor of ITU-T SG20 and ITU-T SG13, Q2/20 Rapporteur and Q20/13 Associate Rapporteur Technical areas of current involvement include Future Networks incl. IMT-2020/5G and Network 2030, Internet of Things/M2M, Big Data and ML/AI. Marco has professional experience in R&D and technology strategy, and he has worked in different market roles in Solvay group, Orange Labs, Nortel Networks CTO division and ZTE R&D Technology Strategy. Marco is active in standardization since long time, leading standards specifications in different domains (NGN, IoT/M2M, Big Data, IMT2020), holding leadership positions and playing Liaison Officer roles. In the 2017-2020 ITU-T study period, among other tasks, he has been Champion of the Use Case Analysis and Requirements deliverable within the Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities and Communities, as well as Editor of the Use Cases and Requirements deliverable within the ITU-T Focus Group on Technologies for Network 2030. He is also leading the “High Level Architecture” sub-group within the EU-centric Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI) - WG3 on IoT standardization. During 2018 Marco has acted as Rapporteur for the European Commission in the joint MSP/DEI WG on Standardisation in support of Digitising European Industry and Editor of the Final Report of the WG (Dec 2018). He holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry, France) and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France). He has also completed an Executive Program on Big Data Science at Ecole Centrale (Paris, France).
Raymond Forbes ETSI ENI Educated at Loughborough University of Technology between 1977 and 1984, he joined Plessey Telecommunications where he worked on Software Engineering and Analysis. Since 1990 he has worked on network development in the area of Intelligent Networks and the standardisation thereof. He has chaired the NGN Protocols in ETSI including the IMS adaptation to fixed networks and the Common IMS programme. He was elected as ETSI TC M2M Protocols WG Chairman. Also, he has been actively involved in the ITU-T Smart Focus Group. He was appointed as chairman of the M2M Protocols activity in oneM2M the global Standards Partnership Project. Also, he was appointed as Leader of the M2M Service Enablement & Utilities Standardization. Currently, he is working for Huawei Technologies to lead and chair the ETSI ISG ENI (Experiential Networked intelligence) and ETSI ISG PDL (Permissioned Distributed Ledger) Vice-Chairman.
Luca Pesando Telecom Italia Luca has more than twenty-five years of experience in Information and Communication Technologies with Telecom Italia. In the company, he is coordinator of the fixed access and transport standardisation since 2006. At present Luca is co-chairman of WP1 in SG13 of ITU-T. In ETSI he is vice-chairman of ISG Experiential Network Intelligence (ENI), where he is also part of the PoC management team and he has been WI rapporteur. Few weeks ago he was elected chairman of ISG F5G. In the past, Luca has covered leading roles in various standards initiatives.
Vishnu Ram Independent Researcher Vishnu worked for Motorola/Nokia/Siemens in advanced technologies teams for 21 years. He was a Scientific Advisory Board Associate (SABA) member of Motorola Networks. He has published several drafts in IETF, contributed to ETSI, 3GPP in his role as a senior specialist (Radio Resource Management). He holds 12 International Granted Patents (and several pending applications) and have several publications. He is currently working as an Independent Researcher.
Shengming Cai ENI, PoC project: Intelligent Network Slice Lifecycle Management Shengming CAI is a senior research engineer at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, and serves as the expat of Data Communication Research Department at France Research Center, Huawei. His research interests include SDN, network slicing, SLA guarantee, operations research and AI. He is the technical leader of related research projects in Huawei, having be actively engaged in related research and standardization organizations. He has published papers in leading conferences and journals including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, etc.
Slawomir Stanczak Chair of ML5G, Full Professor, Technical University, Berlin, & Head, Wireless Communications and Networks Department Slawomir Stanczak studied electrical engineering with specialization in control theory at the Wroclaw University of Technology and at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin). He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1998 and the Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering in 2003, both from TU Berlin; the Habilitation degree (venialegendi) followed in 2006. Since 2015, he has been a Full Professor for network information theory with TU Berlin and the head of the Wireless Communications and Networks department. Prof. Stanczak has been involved in research and development activities in wireless communications since 1997. In 2004 and 2007, he was a Visiting Professor with RWTH Aachen University and in 2008, he was a Visiting Scientist with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He is a co-author of two books and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in the area of information theory, wireless communications, signal processing and machine learning. Prof. Stanczak received research fellowships from the German Research Foundation and the Best Paper Award from the German Communication Engineering Society in 2014. He was a Co-chair of the 14th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2013). Between 2009 and 2011, he was an Associate Editor of the European Transactions for Telecommunications (information theory) and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing between 2012 and 2015. Since February 2018 Prof. Stanczak has been the chairman of the ITU-T focus group on machine learning for future networks including 5G.