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Mengxiang Han Standardization Engineer, China Unicom Mengxiang Han is a standardization engineer of Smart City Research Institute in China Unicom. He has experience in digital twin security of smart city, three-dimensional visualization of security assets, and deepfake detection. Has made contributions to ITU-T X.1815 (Security guidelines and requirements for IMT-2020 edge computing services) approved in 2023 , ITU-T X.1455 (Security Measures for Smart Residential Community) approved in 2024 and ITU-T X.2012(Security measure for digital twin system of smart cities) approved in 2024. Mr. Mengxiang Han is also an editor of X.srgsdcs, X.fr-vsasi in cybersecurity and digital twin technology integration, smart city security of ITU-T Study Group 17.
Feng Gao Chief expert and Director, China Unicom Feng Gao is Chief expert of China Unicom in security domain, and also the director of security center of China Unicom Smart City Research Institute. She has over 13 years of experience in the field of international standards, and also as the co-rapporteur of ITU-T SG17 Q7. She has played a key role in developing over 40 specifications and ongoing studies, including ITU-T X.1145, X.1147, X.1149, X.1247, X.1364, X.1454, X.1455, X.1452, X.1751, X.1815, X.1820, X.2012 and many others.
Edward Jerjian CEO & Principal Engineer, Acquire Industries Ltd., Canada Edward Jerjian is a Canadian licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng), with over 10 years of experience as a DfX (Design for X) engineer of custom electrical equipment and systems. His expertise spans areas from power manufacturing to construction, with the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, wearables, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and the Metaverse as key areas of interest. In the realm of standards development, at Canadian Standards Association (CSA) he serves on the Integrated Committee on Trace Heating (CSA C231 - ICTH) and also Vice-chair of the Canada’s Standards Mirror Committee CSA C234 (SMC 119) for Printed Electronics. At the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), he is a National Expert on TC 119 Printed Electronics and a contributor to the Joint Standards Evaluation Group (SEG) 15 with International Standards Organisation (ISO) on the Metaverse. Currently, Edward is CEO & Principal Engineer at Acquire Industries, and on the Board of Directors of intelliFLEX, Canada's Flexible & Printable Electronics Industry Association. He holds a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, with a specialization in Power Engineering.
Xiongwei Jia Chief advisor, China Unicom Mr. Xiongwei Jia has over 20 years of extensive expertise in driving innovative across various technologies and services. His expertise spans the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, the metaverse, and advancements in 5G/6G networks. He is currently a senior expert at the China Unicom Research Institute and serves on the technical committee of the China Unicom Group. In the realm of ICT standards, Mr. Xiongwei Jia is a well-established contributor, actively participating in ITU-T Study Groups such as SG13, SG17, SG20, and SG21. He serves in leadership roles, including Vice-chair of ITU-T WP3/20, Rapporteur of ITU-T Q6/20, and Convenor of ITU-T CG-AISEC/17. Mr. Xiongwei Jia has played a key role in developing over 60 specifications and ongoing studies, including ITU-T F.748.24, F.748.35, Y.4051, Y.4502, Y.4115, Y.4455, Y.4464, Y.4470, Y.4473, Y.4560, Y.4811, Y.4812, Y.4814, and many others.
Dae-Ki Kang Professor Dongseo University, Republic of Korea Dae-Ki Kang is a professor at Dongseo University in South Korea. He previously served as a senior member of the engineering staff at the attached Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in South Korea. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 2006. His research interests encompass Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Hyperparameter Optimization and Network Architecture Search, Automated Machine Learning, Adversarial Machine Learning, Bankruptcy prediction models and financial ratio analysis, and Datamining based intrusion detection. Prior to joining Iowa State University, he gained valuable experience working at two startup companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in South Korea. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Sogang University, which he obtained in 1994, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Hanyang University (ERICA Campus), awarded in 1992. Professor Kang has authored over 50 publications, which include books, book chapters, and high-impact SCI journal papers, more than 60 journal papers indexed in SCOPUS and KCI, and more than 50 international conferences. He serves as an editor for several SCI journals, including CMC, Applied Sciences, Sensors, Electronics, Symmetry, and AI+.. Additionally, he contributes to the development of international standards as an editor for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, ITU-T SG 17, and IEEE 3079. Professor Kang has also played significant roles at various international conferences, serving as chair, keynote speaker, and invited speaker at national and international conferences.
Antonio Kung Chief Executive Officer Antonio Kung is co-founder of Trialog. With more than 30 years of experience in the field of cyber physical systems and the Internet of Things, he brings expertise and know-how particularly on architecture, interoperability or data security and protection. He was the coordinator of numerous national and European collaborative projects in these fields. He is active in standardisation on the Internet of Things, security and data protection, and the editor of ISO/IEC standards 27550 (published), 27556, 27561 – POMME, 27570 (published), 21823-3, 30149. He became CEO of Trialog in 2018. Antonio has a master degree from Harvard university and an engineering degree from Ecole centrale Paris.
HoonJae Lee Editor of ITU-T TR.DPAMA & ISO/IEC 27573, Co-editor of ISO/IEC 27575, Dongseo University HoonJae Lee received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree in Electronics from Kyungpook National University in 1985, 1987 and 1998, respectively. He had been engaged in the research on cryptography and network security at ADD (Agency for Defense Development) from 1987 to 1998. Since 2002 he has been working for Department of Information Security at Dongseo University as professor. And also he is a chairperson in Dept. of Digital Forensic of Graduate school. His current research interests are in AI security, side-channel attack, USN & RFID security, security/privacy for Meta-verse. He is a member of the Korea institute of Information security and cryptology, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Information Theory Society etc.
N. Kishor Narang, Mentor, Principal Design Strategist & Architect Narnix Technolabs Pvt. Ltd Kishor is Technology Advisor, Mentor, Design Strategist & Architect in Electrical, Electronics & ICT with over 47 years of professional experience in education, research, design and advisory running an Independent Design House – NARNIX since 1981. Over 37 years of hardcore Research and Design Development Experience in Solutions, Systems, Products, Hardware, Software & Firmware (Embedded Software) across diverse technology & application domains, and over 10 years of Strategic Advisory Experience to different segments of business & industry. He has over 500 Research & Design Mentees in the Electronics, ICT & STI (Science Technology & Innovation) Ecosystems. He is Member, Academic Council, IIIT, Surat and D Y Patil International University, Pune; Research Advisor, Institute of Informatics and Communication, University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Delhi; & Member, Academic Committee, Electronics & ICT Academy at National Institute of Technology, Patna. Leading multiple National & Global Standardization Initiatives & Projects at BIS, TSDSI, IEEE, IEC, ISO, ITU and IETF… Recently appointed as a Member IEEE SA Standards Board, beyond leadership positions in other global SDOs. Mentoring many Deep Tech & Disruptive Tech Startups in the domains of e-mobility, drones, robotics, automotive like Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Robotics & AI; Strategic Electronics like Defense, Aerospace, AR/VR/XR etc…For the last 15 years, been deeply involved in standardization in the electrical, electronics, communications, information technology, digital infrastructure and cyber security domains with a focus on identifying gaps in standards to bring harmonization through system standards and standardized interfaces to ensure end-to-end Interoperability. Recent work includes advocacy and standardization in cross cutting societal Ethical imperatives – Sustainability (focus on Decarbonization in every domain), Safety of the Mankind and the Environment.
Junhyung Park Researcher of Cybersecurity Emerging-Standards Center (CESC), Soonchunhyang University, Korea, (Rep. of) Junhyung Park is a researcher at the Emerging Cybersecurity Standards Center (ECSC) of Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea. He holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Information Security Engineering from Soonchunhyang University. His professional background includes extensive experience in malware analysis, incident response, and cybersecurity in the artificial intelligence domain at the SCH Cybersecurity Center. He serves as an active editor in ITU-T Study Group 17. He was the editor of Recommendation ITU-T X.1150, “Security assurance framework for digital financial services,” which was approved in 2023. He is also contributing as an editor to several ongoing work items, including X.sr-ai (AI security), X.st-ssc (Software Supply Chain Security), and X.ztmc (Zero Trust security).
Zoe Sungchae Park Researcher of Cybersecurity Emerging-Standards Center (CESC), Soonchunhyang University, Korea, (Rep. of) Ms Zoe Sungchae Park received her Bachelor’s degree in 2008 from Soonchunhyang University, Korea. She is currently pursuing an integrated Master’s and PhD programme, which she is expected to complete in 2024, and works at the Cybersecurity Emerging-Standards Center (CESC) of Soonchunhyang University as a senior researcher. She is a founding member of VODABI, a company specialising in AI-based conversation analysis, and has over 10 years of industry experience in the security field, including roles in security vendors and the financial sector. She currently serves as the Rapporteur for Q1 in ITU-T SG17 and is the editor of multiple standardisation documents(X.sr-ai, X.st-ssc, etc) on cybersecurity in ITU-T. She has also served as a co-chair of Correspondence Group to SG17 Restructuring (CG-RES).
Arnaud Taddei CEO, Chair, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security \| Broadcom Mr. Arnaud Taddei is a Global Security Strategist at Symantec by Broadcom. He is an executive advisor on Security Strategy and Transformation for the top 150 Symantec customers. As part of his mission, M. Taddei participates in specific Standardization Defining Organizations and in particular, was elected ITU-T SG17 Chair representing the UK and works at the IETF. He started his career in 1993 at the famous CERN IT Division in Geneva which created the World Wide Web and where he led the team responsible for Communication, Authentication and Authorization. In 2000, he joined Sun Microsystems where he became one of the 100 elected global Principle Engineers. In 2007 he joined Symantec and hold Chief Architect roles up to Director of Research as direct report to Dr. Hugh Thompson, Symantec’s CTO and actual RSA Conference Chair. Graduated as Telecom Engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunication de Bretagne, France, M. Taddei owns a DEA with INRIA, which led him to the Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow in 1992.
Karim Tobich Director, CyberSecurity & Technology Consultancy, United Kingdom Karim Tobich is a PhD holder, certified CISSP, with almost two decades of work experience in security, cybersecurity, and risk management. He started his career working within the semiconductor industry, designing and assessing secure elements focusing on hardware security, cryptography, side-channel analysis, and Machine Learning, used in highly secure systems for identity management, access controls, telecom, passport, and payment industry. Then he expanded his expertise to IoT, integrated system and cloud SaaS services, where he started developing comprehensive skills in consulting on cyber risk strategy development and execution at a high-level, ensuring alignment to business objectives by taking a systematic and analytical approach to create secure, vigilant and resilient programmes. Since 2019, he is an international expert member of the ISO/IEC Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection SubCommittee, and the ISO/IEC IoT and Digital Twin SubCommittee, and many other organisations working on information security management, risk management, business continuity, systems interoperability, IoT and digital twins. He is co-author of different reports, university articles, and co-editor of different international standards like the ISO/IEC 27003, ISO/IEC 27028, and others.
Ke Wang Editor of ITU-T X.2011 and X.dtns, China Mobile, China Ke WANG has over 10 years of expertise in driving innovative across various technologies and services. Her expertise spans the evolution in 5G/6G networks security, and the protection and potential of new technologies like digital twins, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. She is currently a senior expert at the China Mobile Research Institute. In the realm of ICT standards, Mrs. Ke WANG actively participates in ITU-T SG17, 3GPP, NGMN. She serves in leadership roles as associate rapporteur of ITU-T Q14/17. Mrs. Ke WANG has played a key role in developing over 20 specifications and ongoing studies, including ITU-T X.2011, X.1401,X.1404, X.1409, X.1647, X.1812, X.1816, X.dtns, TR.5Gsec-bsf, TR.IMT2030-sec-con and many others.
Junzhi Yan Co-Rapporteur of Q6/17, Researcher, China Mobile Research Institute, China Junzhi Yan received his Ph.D. Degree in Xidian University, China, 2010. He works as a researcher in China Mobile Research Institute since 2010. His research interests include mobile network security, IoT security, DLT security and services, etc. In 2019, he was nominated for Co-Rapporteur of Q6/SG17 (Security for telecommunication services, Internet of Things (IoT), digital twin, and metaverse). He also acted as Vice-Chair of CCSA (China Communications Standards Association) since 2017. He has been responsible for more than 20 work items and completed to publish more than 10 specifications.