Ved P. KAFLE received the B.E. (Honours) degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Punjab Engineering College, India, the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea, and the Ph.D. degree in Informatics from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan. He is currently a research manager at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, and concurrently holding a visiting associate professor's position at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. He has been serving as a Rapporteur of ITU-T Study Group 13 since 2014. His research interests include network architectures, 5G and Beyond 5G networks, Internet of things (IoT), smart cities, network control and service automation by AI and machine learning, network function virtualization (NFV), software defined networking (SDN), and terrestrial and non-terrestrial network convergence. He received the ITU Association of Japan's Encouragement Award and Accomplishment Award in 2009 and 2017, respectively. He received four Best Paper Awards from the ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference in 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2020. He is a fellow of ITU-T SG13, a life member of Nepal Engineers Association, a senior member of IEEE and a member of IEICE.
