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Biographies |
Martin Adolph (Project Officer, Standardization Policy Division, ITU-T)
Martin Adolph is Programme Officer in
ITU’s Standardization Policy and
Technology Watch Division. Since joining
the organization in 2007, he has played
an active role in launching ITU’s work
on ICT and climate change, and in
organizing annual CTO meetings, bringing
together ITU’s management with global
ICT leaders.
Martin is also responsible for ITU-T’s
Technology Watch, which surveys the ICT
environment to capture new topics for
standardization activities. Fascinated
with innovation and new technologies, he
authored several Technology Watch
Reports on topics such as biometrics,
cloud computing, sensor networks, video
games, etc. He is also acting as
technical advisor to this year’s ITU
Kaleidoscope.
Martin holds a diploma in computer
science from Dresden University of
Technology, and one in engineering from
Ecole Centrale Paris.
http://itu.int/techwatch. |
Graeme Allan
(Executive- Network Infrastructure
Provisioning, South Zone, Telkom SA Ltd)
Graeme Allan is currently responsible
for network engineering and build in
Telkom SA’s South Zone. Since obtaining
a B Sc Eng (Electrical) from the
University of Cape Town he has worked in
various network engineering and
operations positions.
He is the Chief Mentor for graduate
Engineers and Technologists in Telkom
SA, and has occupied various positions
in the South African Institute of
Electrical Engineering (Western Cape)
and the Society of Telkom Engineers. |
Rufus Andrew (Managing Director, Nokia Siemens Networks, South Africa)
Mr Rufus Andrew is the Managing Director
of Nokia Siemens Networks (“NSN”) in
South Africa. NSN is the Global Joint
Venture between Nokia Networks (“Nokia
NET”) and Siemens Communications. Prior
to his role as Managing Director of the
local company in South Africa, Rufus was
the Head of a Services Business unit for
East and Southern Africa. Besides
assuming the governance responsibility
for NSN, Rufus is also highly focused on
new business development in South
Africa.
He has a twenty three year career in
Sub-Saharan Africa working considerably
in the Broadcasting, Information
Technology and Telecommunications
Sectors.
He commenced his career as a broadcast
engineer with then, M-Net Television. He
then progressed through the broadcast
signal distribution domain within M-Net
/Multichoice, a Pan-African
Multi-channel Broadcaster and was a key
part of their venture into the rest of
Africa. He later transitioned across
from “technical and operations” to
“business development and marketing” and
was involved in initiating several ICT
development projects in Sub-Saharan
Africa with Orbicom, then a company of
the MTN Group, a leading African
Telecomms Operator. He has contributed
to South African State-Owned ICT
Enterprises where he served at an
executive level at Sentech and
Arivia.Kom, before joining Siemens
Telecommunications in January 2006.
Rufus is a member of the South African
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (SAIEE), Chartered Marketers
of Southern Africa (CM SA), and
Institute of Directors of Southern
Africa (IODSA). He is a coach and mentor
of recently graduated, previously
disadvantaged, aspiring entrepreneurs
and executives.
He has served on several ICT Industry
bodies in Southern Africa including:
• Southern African Broadcasting
Association (chairperson of the
Technical Committee);
• South African Value-Added Network
Providers Association (SAVA)
• Telecommunications Harmonisation
Committee of COMESA Region (Common
Market for East and Southern Africa)
• Southern Africa Digital Broadcasting
Association (SADIBA)
Mr Andrew is passionate about bridging
the digital divide in Africa through
leapfrogging the Broadband landscape.
This, he believes, will not only
increase the accessibility of ICT
services but will also be a key catalyst
for stimulating rapid economic growth in
South Africa and neighbouring countries
in the region. |
Mohammad Arifuzzaman
Mohammad Arifuzzaman received the B.Sc.
degree in Computer Science & Engineering
from Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology (BUET) in
2001. He worked as an Assistant
professor at IBAIS University,
Bangladesh till 2005. After that he
joined in the Bangladesh Civil Service
and worked as an Assistant secretary to
the Government of the Peoples republic
of Bangladesh. He is now doing Masters
in the Graduate School of Global
Information and Telecommunication
Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
and he is a project research student of
Matsumoto Lab. His research interests
lie in the area of Communication
protocols, wireless ad-hoc networks,
sensor networks, and optical
communication. |
Tohru Asami (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tohru Asami received B.E. degree and
M.E. degree in electrical engineering
from Kyoto University in 1974 and 1976,
and Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in
2005. In 1976, he joined KDD (KDDI).
Since that time, he has been working at
its R&D Laboratories in several research
areas such as facsimile terminals,
UNIX-based data communication systems,
network management systems, and various
access media to the Internet. In 1985,
he developed an accounting system for
the Internet gateway for Japanese
academic networks in cooperation with of
UUNET, EUNET, etc. In 1997, he drove the
first open xDSL Field Trial in Japan
with several companies to promote the
possibility of ADSL in the Japanese
telecommunication environments. After
being C.E.O. of KDDI R&D Labs., Inc.
between 2001 and 2005, he moved to a
professor of The University of Tokyo
(Dept. of Information and Communication
Engineering, Graduate School of
Information Science and Technology). He
is a member of the IEEE. From 2003 to
2005, he was a vice chairman oof the
board of directors of Information System
Society in The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers,
Japan (IEICE-ISS). |
Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Luigi Atzori received the PhD degree in
Electronic Engineering and Computer
Science from the University of Cagliari
(Italy) in 1999, where is currently
assistant professor in
telecommunications. He teaches
telecommunication networks and Internet
protocols and conducts research on the
following topics: video streaming, IP
telephony playout buffering, QoS in
multi-service networks and technologies
for the implementation of the Internet
of Things. In these fields he has
published more than 80 papers in
international journals and conference
proceedings. Dr Atzori has been awarded
a Fulbright Scholarship (2003-2004) to
work on video streaming at the
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Arizona. He
is an external evaluator for the
European Commission within the Seventh
Research Framework Programme (FP7) and
for Italian National Research Projects
for the MIUR (Ministry of Scientific
Research and Education). He has been
editor of the ACM/Springer Wireless
Networks Journal in the period 2007-2010
and has been the guest editor of the
special issue on Multimedia over Ad-Hoc
and Sensor Networks (Monet Journal,
2008), guest editor of the special issue
on Mobile Video (Elsevier Image
Communication Journal, 2007), editor of
LNCS Visual Content Processing and
Representation (Springer LNCS 3893,
2005) and editor of the Springer Book on
The Internet of Things (2009). He is
member of the Editorial Board of the
Hindawi Journal on Advances in
Multimedia (since 2010) and is guest
editor of the special issue on QoE
management in emerging multimedia
services to appear on the IEEE
Communications Magazine. He is involved
in the organization of several
international conferences on Multimedia
Communications and Networking (MobiMedia,
VLBV, ICIP, Packet Video). He is senior
member of IEEE, of the Multimedia
Communications Technical Committee
(MMTC) and of the ICST. |
 Antoine Bagula (University of Cape Town, South
Africa)
Antoine Bagula: received the MEng degree
in Computer Engineering from Catholic
University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium
and the MSc Degree in computer science
from the University of Stellenbosch in
South Africa. He obtained a PhD in
communication systems from the KTH-Royal
Institute of Technology in Sweden. The
focus of his research is on the design,
analysis and control of intelligent
telecommunication systems and their
integration into the emerging Ubiquitous
networks. His current interests include
the modeling, optimization, performance
evaluation, and implementation of RFID
and Radar networks, Sensor/Actuator
networks as well as next generation
IP/optical networks. Besides his strong
involvement in research at the academic
and industry levels, Dr Bagula is
currently involved in training
activities in developing countries as an
ICTP, ISOC and WirelessU
trainer/consultant. At UCT, Dr Bagula
leads the Intelligent Systems and
Advanced Telecommunication (ISAT)
Laboratory of the department of computer
science. He is also an active member of
the ICT4D centre. |
Fatna Belqasmi
(Concordia University, Canada)
FATNA BELQASMI
(fbelqasmi@alumni.concordia.ca) holds a
Ph.D. and a M.Sc. degree in electrical
and computer engineering from Concordia
University, Canada. She is a research
associate at the same university. In the
past, she worked as a researcher at
Ericsson Canada. She was part of the IST
Ambient Network project (a research
project sponsored by the European
Commission within the Sixth Framework
Programme, FP6). She worked as a unit
managed and as an R&D engineer for Maroc
Telecom, Morocco. Her research interests
include NGNs, service engineering,
distributed systems, and networking
technologies for emerging economies. |
Giuseppe Cardone (University of
Bologna, Italy)
Giuseppe Cardone received his laurea
degree in computer science engineering
from University of Bologna, Italy, in
March 2009. He is now a Ph.D. student in
computer science engineering at the same
university. His interests include
performance and scalability issues of
distributed systems, wireless sensor
network management and integration,
urban and mobile sensing, and
power-aware middlewares. He is an IEEE
student member. |
 Wallace Chigona
(University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Wallace Chigona is an Associate
Professor in Information Systems at the
University of Cape Town, South Africa.
He has a Masters degree in Computer
Science from the University of Waikato,
New Zealand and a PhD in Computer
Science from the University of
Magdeburg, Germany. Wallace Chigona’s
research interests are on the social
economic impact of information
technology especially on
under-privileged communities. He has
been involved in a number of research
projects involving the designing and the
assessment of technological
interventions in under-resourced areas.
His recent project has looked at the use
of ICT in primary schools in South
Africa. He has published widely in
peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
He is in the editorial board of a number
of journals including the African
Journal of Information Systems and the
Electronic Journal of Information
Systems in Developing Countries. |
Antonio Corradi (University of
Bologna, Italy)
Antonio Corradi graduated from
University of Bologna, Italy, and
received MS in electrical engineering
from Cornell University, USA. He is a
full professor of computer engineering
at the University of Bologna. His
research interests include distributed
and parallel systems and solutions,
middleware for pervasive and
heterogeneous computing, infrastructure
support for context-aware multimodal
services, network management, mobile
agent platforms. He is member of IEEE,
ACM, and Italian Association for
Computing (AICA). |
Ian Graham (University of Edinburgh,
United Kingdom)
Ian Graham graduated with a degree in
Production Engineering and Management.
After working in the engineering and
automotive industries he began lecturing
in Operations Management, first at
Heriot-Watt University and latterly at
the University of Edinburgh. He first
became involved in standards research as
part of a European Union study of EDI
nearly twenty years ago and since then
has been involved in a series of
projects analysing ICT standardisation
drawing on concepts from the sociology
of technology. |
Michael Andres Feliu Gutierrez (University of
Cape Town, South Africa)
Michael Andres Feliu Gutierrez received
his BSc (Hon) in Electrical and Computer
Engineering in 2009 from the University
of Cape Town and is presently studying
towards his Master of Science degree at
the same institution. His research
interests include Mobile Cloud
Computing, Service provisioning in Next
Generation Networks and Policy
Management. |
Masum Z. Hasan (Cisco
Systems, USA)
Dr. Masum Z. Hasan is currently a
Principal Engineer / Architect at Cisco
Systems, San Jose, USA, where he has
been working and leading R&D projects in
a number of areas, including Network
Software Architecture, Cloud Computing
and Networking, Virtualization,
High-performance/Distributed/Parallel
Computing, Network Management, and
Healthcare Computing and Networking.
Masum’s prior job experiences include
Principal Investigator at Bell Labs,
USA, Research Scientist at the
University of Toronto, Canada, and
software developer at a number of
software companies.
Masum obtained his MMath and PhD in
Computer Science from University of
Waterloo, Canada and combined BEng-MEng
in Computer Engineering from Odessa
National Polytechnic University in
Ukraine. Masum has been participating on
the organizing and technical program
committees of a number of IEEE/IFIP
International Conferences, as editor of
a number of journals and
scientific/technical magazines, and has
been publishing and presenting papers,
tutorials, and on panels at various
well-known academic and industrial
conferences. Masum also has been
participating in and contributing to a
number of standards development
organizations, such as IETF, ITU, OASIS
and OIF. Personal website and contact
information:
https://sites.google.com/site/masumzh/home. |
Suhaidi Hassan (Universiti Utara Malaysia,
Malaysia)
Suhaidi Hassan is an Associate Professor
and Assistant Vice Chancellor at UUM
College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti
Utara Malaysia.
He has a PHD in Computing (computer
networks) from the School of Computing,
Faculty of Engineering, University of
Leeds, United Kingdom, 2003. An MS in
Information Science (telecomm/networks),
School of Information Sciences,
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
USA, 1993 and BS in Computer Science
Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering
and Applied Science, State University of
New York, Binghamton, New York USA,
1991. |
Hirofumi Horikoshi (Technology Planning
Department, NTT Corporation, Japan)
Hirofumi Horikoshi graduated from Dept.
of Physics, Tokyo University of Science
in 1987, and joined NTT Corporation in
1987. Now he is a General Manager of NGN
Promotion Office, Technology Planning
Department, NTT Corporation.He is in
charge of the investigation of the
fundamental construction plan of NGN and
the promotion of its R&D. He is a member
of IEICE in Japan. |
Eva Ibarrola (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Eva Ibarrola received the B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Telecommunications
Engineering from the University of the
Basque Country, Spain, in 1991. In 2010
she received the Ph.D. in
Telecommunications Engineering from the
same University for her work in the area
of user-centric QoS management models.
Prior to joining University of the
Basque Country in January 2000, she
worked as an expert engineer in the CNSO
(National Centre for Supervision and
Operations) of Telefónica.
She has been cooperating in different
R&D projects related with
telecommunications QoS evaluation and
measurement. Her research interests
focus mainly on user’s oriented Quality
of Service (QoS) management models and
frameworks and Quality of Experience (QoE)
evaluation. |
Antonio
Iera (University "Mediterranea" of
Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Antonio Iera is a Full Professor of
Telecommunications at the University ‘‘Mediterranea”
of Reggio Calabria, Italy. He graduated
in Computer Engineering at the
University of Calabria in 1991; then he
received a Master Diploma in Information
Technology from CEFRIEL/Politecnico di
Milano and a Ph.D. degree from the
University of Calabria. From 1994 to
1995 he has been with Siemens AG in
Munich, Germany to participate in the
RACE II ATDMA (Advanced TDMA Mobile
Access) project under a CEC Fellowship
Contract. Since 1997 he has been with
the University Mediterranea, Reggio
Calabria, where he currently holds the
positions of scientific coordinator of
the local Research Units of the National
Group of Telecommunications and
Information Theory (GTTI) and of the
National Inter-University Consortium for
Telecommunications (CNIT), Director of
the ARTS – Laboratory for Advanced
Research into Telecommunication Systems
(www.arts.unirc.it), and Head of the
Department DIMET. His research interests
include: new generation mobile and
wireless systems, broadband satellite
systems, Internet of Things. Elevated to
the IEEE Senior Member status in 2007. |
Yoshikazu Ikeda (Otani University, Japan)
Yoshikazu IKEDA is a professor at Otani
University, Kyoto, Japan. He was a
professor at Tokyo Institute of
Technology during 2003 and 2007, a
visiting professor at National Institute
of Informatics in Japan, CEO of
JPIX(Internet Exchange), and Executive
Director for Multimedia Business of KDD
company (International telecom operator
in Japan) before 2000. He worked with
ITU as a Rapporteur for SS-7 signaling
network in ITU-T SG.11 in 1980’s. He
graduated from University of Tokyo in
1969. |
Kai Jakobs (Professor, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Kai joined RWTH Aachen University's
Computer Science Department as a member
of technical staff in 1985. Since 1987,
he has been Head of Technical Staff at
the Chair of Informatik 4 (Communication
& Distributed Systems). He holds a PhD
in Computer Science from the University
of Edinburgh.
Kai is (co)-author/editor of a text book
on data communication networks and, more
recently, fourteen books on standards
and standardisation processes, with a
focus on the ICT sector. More than 170
of his papers have been published in
conference proceedings, books, and
journals. He has been on the programme
committee and editorial board of
numerous international conferences and
journals, respectively, and has served
as an external expert on evaluation
panels of various European R&D
programmes, on both technical and
socio-economic issues. Kai is also Vice
President of the European Academy for
Standardisation (EURAS), as well as
founder and editor-in-chief of the
'International Journal on IT Standards &
Standardization Research', and of the
'Advances in Information Technology
Standards and Standardization Research'
book series. |
Ved P. Kafle (National Institute of
Information and Communications
Technology, Japan)
Ved P. Kafle has been working as a
researcher at the National Institute of
Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), Japan. He is also a
member of the AKARI Architecture Design
Project for New Generation Networks. He
is involved in designing new generation
network architectures and protocols,
considering emerging (as well as future)
network environments and application
requirements. In particular, he is
currently investigating the research
challenges of node identification and
location architectures of the New
Generation Network or future Internet.
He has been awarded with the ITU
Association of Japan Award in 2009 for
his active contributions to the
standardization of Next Generation
Network architectures. He also received
the best paper award (second prize) at
the ITU-T Kaleidoscope event on
Innovations for Digital Inclusion, 2009.
Dr. Kafle received the B.E. degree in
electronics and electrical
communications from Punjab Engineering
College (now PEC University of
Technology), Chandigarh, India, the M.S.
degree in computer science and
engineering from Seoul National
University, South Korea, and the Ph.D.
in informatics from the Graduate
University for Advanced Studies, Japan. |
Heejoong
Kim (Keio University, Japan)
Heejoong Kim received his Master of
Radio Communications Engineering from
Yonsei University, Korea, in 1998. He
had worked as a mobile and satellite
communication R&D engineer at LIG Nex1
from 1998 to 2005. After working at LIG
Nex1 as an engineer, he began working
for Korean Broadcasting Commission (KBC)
for Korean government, and he moved his
working place to Korea Communications
Commission (KCC) in 2008 due to
integration of two ministries, i.e. KBC
and Ministry of Information and
Communication (MIC). He is currently
engaged in KCC, and he is also studying
on radio spectrum policy and technology
at graduate school of media design, Keio
University in Japan for his doctoral
degree from 2009. |
Dhananjay Kumar (Anna University, India)
Dhananjay Kumar received his
undergraduate degree in Electronics &
Communication Engineering from the
Institution of Engineers (India),
Calcutta, in the year 1997. He was
rewarded a Master of Engineering (M. E.)
degree in Electronic Engineering at the
M. S. University, Baroda, in the year
1999 and subsequently a Master of
Technology (M. Tech.) degree in
Communication Engineering at the
Pondicherry Engineering College,
Pondicherry in the year 2001. A Doctor
of Philosophy (Ph. D.) degree was
conferred to him by Anna University,
Chennai in the year 2009 for his
research work on high quality multimedia
support in next generation multi-carrier
wireless mobile networks. Currently he
is professor-in-charge of undergraduate
program in the department of Information
Technology, Anna University, MIT,
Chennai. Dr. Dhananjay Kumar and his
student team have developed a webcam
assisted hand gesture based user
interface that intends to replace
conventional mouse in desktop computers.
His present research work includes video
streaming, multimedia surveillance, and
cognitive radio systems. |
Leo Lehmann (OFCOM, Switzerland)
Leo Lehmann is working at the Federal
Office of Communication (OFCOM) in
Switzerland, taking care on the
regulation of mobile and fixed/mobile
converged networks. Since October 2008
Leo also serves the ITU-T as
vice-chairman of Study Group 13 (Future
networks including mobile and NGN).
Further on in this role he functions as
the interface of SG13 to the Joint
Coordination Activity on Accessibility
and Human Factors (JCA-AHF) of ITU-T.
Afore he was the Rapporteur on
“multimedia service mobility management”
in the ITU-T Study Group 16 (Multimedia
Services) for many years. Leo has been
working since 20 years in the
telecommunication business, being
responsible as senior manager and expert
for network system design and
engineering at mayor players of the
telecommunication market. As designated
expert on mobile networks and multimedia
he has contributed to several scientific
conferences. |
Alessia Magliarditi (Kaleidoscope Coordinator, ITU)
Alessia Magliarditi is Programme Officer in the Workshops and Promotion Division (WPD) of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB). She is the TSB focal point for academia and, from 2011, she is the Coordinator of the Kaleidoscope conferences, the main ITU interface with universities and research institutions. She previously worked as Promotion Officer in WPD.
Alessia joined ITU in 2006 working in the External Affairs and Corporate Communication Division of the General Secretariat. She was in charge of external relations, liaising with governments, permanent missions, UN agencies, international organizations, ITU regional offices, and universities.
Prior to joining ITU, Alessia Magliarditi worked at the ILO from 2003. She was responsible for external relations with UN agencies, social partners, NGOs and universities, encouraging them to sign partnership agreements with ILO.
Alessia holds a M.A in Social Sciences from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, and a M.A in International Relations and Diplomatic Studies from “Lumsa” University of Rome. Alessia completed United Nations proficiency courses in English and French, and she is finishing a five-year UN Spanish course.
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Muthoni Masinde (University of Cape Town, South
Africa)
Muthoni (http://www.muthonimasinde.net/)
is a PhD student at the University of
Cape Town (UCT) where she is a member of
the HPI Research School in ICT4D and the
Intelligent Systems and Advanced
Telecommunication (ISAT) Laboratory.
Muthoni is also a lecturer at the School
of Computing and Informatics, University
of Nairobi
(http://sci.uonbi.ac.ke/node/71), Kenya.
Prior to this, she worked as Software
Systems Analyst/ Programmer/ Team Leader
at the same University.
Muthoni holds an MSc. in Computer
Science from the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium, and a BSc. in Computer
Science from the University of Nairobi,
Kenya. Her research objective is to come
up with a drought and climate change
monitoring/warning solution that is
based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
and Mobile Phones and how these two
technologies can complement African
indigenous knowledge on droughts. This
research topic saw Muthoni emerge in the
top 5 in the 2011 ITU Green ICT
Application
Challenge(http://www.itu.int/osg/blog/default,date,2011-10-31.aspx). |
Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)
Since joining NTT Labs in 1970, Mitsuji
Matsumoto has been engaged in Research
in the field of terminal design for
Telematics and Multimedia systems. In
1994, he received the Doctor’s Degree of
Engineering from Waseda University,
Tokyo Japan. In 1996, he joined Waseda
University as a Professor. After that he
has been studying in the graduate school
of the Global Information from 2000.
From April 2008, he visit the Center of
Excellence for Information and
Communication Engineering, Scuola
Superiore Sant’Anna, PISA Italy as a
visiting Professor.
He started International Standardization
activities from 1979 and worked on
Facsimile, Telematics, Non voice
Services and Multimedia. In 2000-2004
study period, he became a Vice Chairman
of ITU-T SG16.
His current research is the Wireless
communication using Infrared, Visible
Light and Radio wave. He also research
on the e-Everything, like e-Learning,
Accessibility, ITS, Emergency Call
system. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and
IEICE, IPSJ, IIEEJ in Japan. |
Ajay Ranjan Mishra (NSN – India)
Mr Ajay Ranjan Mishra is the Global Head
of Industry Environment - India &
Emerging Markets, CTO Office for Nokia
Siemens Networks.
Ajay graduated in 1997 from the
University of Delhi with Masters of
Technology in Microwave Electronics and
since then he has been working in Nokia/
Nokia Siemens Networks and. His previous
roles included Global Head of Business
Development (Emerging Markets) and
Global Head of Services Innovation
Management.
Ajay has authored many research papers
in technology & management domain. He
has also authored three books on
Cellular Technologies.
Ajay’s other affiliations include:
· Academic Board Member of Telecom
Centre of Excellence (Indian Institute
of Management-Ahmedabad)
· Founding Member & Vice-President of
GISFI (Global ICT Standardisation Forum
of India).
· Invited to be on Advisory Board on
Unatek Inc, a network security company
from US.
· Board of Director, Chairman of Focus
Group: New Technologies, CMAI
(Communications Multimedia and
Infrastructure Association of India)
· “Executive in Residence”, invited by
E-labs, INSEAD Business School
Fontainebleau, France
· Invited Council Member of Council of
Telecommunication Advisors (NY-USA)
· Member of ITU-APT, CeWIT, BWCI
(Telecom Organisations in India)
· Invited to join Vision 2020 board of
top education institute in India
Ajay’s current interests are issues
associated with innovations and
development of the cellular network
globally, both technically and
commercially with emphasis on Emerging
markets. He is currently based in New
Delhi, India. |
Boris Moltchanov (Telecom Italia, Italy)
Boris Moltchanov received a Ing. Degree
in information technologies and computer
since from Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
in August 1997 – Summa Cum Laude; and
bachelor degree in management, marketing
and world economy from Volgograd State
Technical University (Russian
Federation) in January 1999 – Summa Cum
Laude.
In 1999-2000 he held researcher position
at Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
In 2000 he joined TILab (formerly CSELT)
as expert of Mobile Terminals, SIM/SmartCards
and Value Added Service platforms. In a
moment of biggest Telecom Italia
expansion in the International arena he
was involved in strategy and roadmap
definition for VAS and Service Platforms
evolution for all international Telecom
Italia’s subsidiaries.
Currently he has moved step forward and
is involved in definition and
prototyping of disruptive services
accordingly to the Research&Trends
initiative of Telecom Italia. He is
involved in a number of EU projects
addressing innovative services.
In the last couple of years he’s
delivering his know-how of the Service
Layer evolution performed in Telecom
Italia to foreign companies within
Telecom Italia’s interests.
He’s author of some international
patents, papers and frequent speaker in
various conferences, workshops and
congresses as well as participant and
member of some standardisation entities
such as OMA and TMF. |
Yoshitoshi Murata (Iwate Prefectural
University, Japan)
Yoshitoshi Murata received his M.E from
Nagoya University, Japan. He received
his Ph.D from Shizuoka University,
Japan. From 1979 to 2006, he was
belonging to NTT and NTT DoCoMo and
developing mobile communication systems,
mobile terminals and services. Since
2006, he is a professor of faculty of
Software and Information Science, Iwate
Prefectural University. Prof. Murata was
awarded the best paper of the ITU-T
“Innovations in NGN” Kaleidoscope
Academic Conference 2008. His research
interests include mobile communication,
sensor usage application and integrated
media communication. He is a member of
IEEE, IEICE and IPSJ. |
Nikesh Nageshar (University of the
Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Nikesh Nageshar graduated with a BSc and
MSc Electrical Engineering (Light
Current) from the University of
Kwazulu-Natal. He has worked as an
electrical engineer on, VoIP, IP and
Submarine cable systems within the
telecommunications sector in South
Africa. His prior research includes
universal telecommunication access for
rural areas.
At present Nikesh, is a student at the
University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg and is also employed by
Neotel South Africa as a Senior
Specialist at the Technology and
Innovation division. He research
interests include the quality of service
mechanisms for voice in packet wireless
networks.
Nikesh is a Member of the SA Institute
of Electrical Engineers and a registered
Professional Engineer with the
engineering council of South Africa. |
Chedlia Ben Naila (Waseda University,
Japan)
Chedlia Ben Naila received the B.S.
degree in telecommunications and
networking in 2004 from National
Institute of Applied Sciences and
Technology (INSAT), Tunisia, and the
M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from
Graduate School of Communications (Sup'com),
Tunisia, in 2005. She is currently
working toward the Ph.D. degree in
telecommunications at Waseda
University’s GITS, Japan. She worked as
a Junior Lecturer at Sup'com, Tunisia,
between 2005 and 2008.
Her research interests include FSO, RoF
and optical fiber communication. She
received in 2011 the 26th Telecom System
Technology Award from the Japanese
Telecommunication Advancement Foundation
(TAF).
Ms. Ben Naila is a student member of
IEEE, OSA, SPIE and IEICE in Japan. |
Kanagaraj Nachimuthu
Nallasamy (Alcatel-Lucent India
Limited, India)
Kanagaraj Nachimuthu Nallasamy received
his B.Tech. degree in Information
Technology from Anna University,
Chennai, in the year 2011. Currently, he
is working as an engineer in
Alcatel-Lucent India Limited, Chennai.
His research interests include cognitive
radio networks and routing in IP
networks. |
Monontši Paul Nthontho (University of
Cape Town, South Africa)
Monontši Paul Nthontho: MSc student at
the Department of Electrical
Engineering, University of Cape Town,
South Africa. He obtained a BSc Eng.
Electrical and Computer Engineering from
UCT. His Research interests are Next
Generation Telecommunications and their
applications in Smart Grid. |
Francis William Petersen (Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Francis Petersen is Dean: Engineering &
the Built Environment at the University
of Cape Town in South Africa. He has
formerly been Executive Head: Strategy
at Anglo Platinum Corporation and
Executive Vice-President: Research and
Development at Mintek. He graduated from
the University of Stellenbosch with the
B. Ing (Chem), M. Ing (Metal) and Ph.D (Ing)
degrees, and completed a short course on
Financial Skills for Executive
Management with IIR Training. He is a
recipient of the Ernest Oppenheimer
Memorial Trust and the Cape Technikon
(now the Cape Peninsula University of
Technology) Researcher of the Year
Awards and is a regular reviewer, and
member of a range of editorial boards
for international journals. He is a
non-executive director on the Boards of
the Royal Bafokeng Platinum and Pragma
Holdings. Furthermore, he is a member of
the South African Minister of Science &
Technology’s National Advisory Council
on Innovation (NACI), chairman of the
Board of the Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR) and a member
of the Board of the South African
Precious Metal and Diamond Regulator.
Francis is also a registered
professional engineer with the
Engineering Council of South Africa. He
is an advisor to the Anglo Platinum
Beneficiation Fund and is a Fellow of
both the South African Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy and the South
African Academy of Engineers.
Francis has extensive experience of
management at various levels within the
University and industry sectors, and is
an extraordinary professor in the
Department of Chemical Engineering at
the University of Stellenbosch. He
believes in teamwork, and has played a
key role in various initiatives within
higher education, industry and science
councils. He is the founder of the first
cohort of industry research
organisations in the minerals and energy
sectors (M & E G9), and has been
actively involved in strategic planning
with regard to R&D in the Science and
Technology Sector, Joint Venture
formation and Scenario Development.
Francis is serving on various national
and international technical, editorial
and advisory committees, is actively
involved and has consulted widely to the
South African engineering & the built
environment industries. He has published
over 150 technical papers & conference
proceedings in international journals. |
Mahdi Pirmoradian
(Kingston University London, United
Kingdom)
Mahdi Pirmoradian received the B.S. and
M.S. degrees in electronic engineering,
from Azad University, Iran. He is a
member of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering (EEE) department at Azad
University in Iran. Mahdi is a student
Member of IEEE. He is currently pursuing
the Ph.D degree in wireless
communication with the Wireless
Multimedia and Networking (WMN) research
group at Kingston University in London.
His research interests are in wireless
networks, especially cognitive radio,
spectrum management and radio resource
management. |
Virgilio Puglia (Italtel,
Italy)
Virgilio Puglia is currently working as
Program Manager at Italtel (an Italian
Telecommunication Company). He was
Program Manager on various Next
Generation Networks projects for Telco
Service Providers and Large Enterprises
(power companies, banking groups). He
has 15 years of experience in
telecommunication system integration of
complex networks. He worked as Solution
Technical Leader at Italtel and was
involved in projects related to IP and
MPLS Backbone, DCN, LAN, Access Network
(IP, Dial UP and DSL), SS7 and SIGTRAN
Signaling Network and SDH/DWDM/CWDM
Backbone/Regional/MAN infrastructures.
He collaborated in National Network
services implementation for IP Services
Shaping/Policing based on levels that
are over the three ISO/OSI layers,
Disaster Recovery solutions based on
SDH/DWDM technology, QoS, MPLS VPN, VPLS
and VoIP and in OSS System integration.
For several years, he was the Technical
Leader for migration and integration of
the IP National Backbone of a challenge
Italian Service Provider.
He is also an Energetic Certifier of
buildings and he is associated to
Lombardy Order of Energy certifiers
(CENED) and to the Milan Order of
Engineers.
He received his Engineering Degree at
the University of Florence (Italy) in
1996. In the past, he also worked as
software developer. |
Papa Ousmane Sanghare (Université Cheikh Anta
Diop de Dakar, Senegal)
Papa Ousmane Sangharé received Master
and Master’s degree in computer Science
from the University Cheikh Anta Diop of
Dakar in 2006 and 2010.
He has worked in Internet measurements,
focusing on Internet Coordinate Systems
(ICS). He studied the impact of Triangle
Inequality Violations (TIVs) on ICS and
how to use the TIVs to improve the
routing in networks. He is also
interested by Wireless Sensors Networks
(WSN). |
Mostafa Hashem Sherif,
AT&T, USA
Mostafa Hashem Sherif has been with AT&T
in various capacities since 1983. He has
a Ph.D. from the University of
California, Los Angeles and both an
M.Sc. and a B.Sc. from Cairo University,
Egypt. He has a M.S. in the Management
of Technology from Stevens Institute of
Technology, N.J., and is a certified
project manager from the Project
Management Institute (PMI). He is the
author of Protocols for Secure
Electronic Commerce, CRC Press, 2nd ed.
(2003), Paiements électroniques
sécurisés, Presses polytechniques et
universitaires romandes, 2006, Managing
Projects in Telecommunication Services,
John Wiley and Sons, 2006 and is a
contributor to Managing IP Networks,
IEEE Press, 2003. He is the editor of
Handbook of Entreprise Integration, CRC
Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2009; a co-editor
of Management of Technology Innovation
and Value Creation, World Scientific
Publications, Singapore, 2008 and New
Directions in Technology Management,
Elsevier Science, Ltd., 2006, Elsevier,
2006. He is also a standards editor for
the IEEE Communications Magazine, an
associate editor of the International
Journal of IT Standards &
Standardization Research and in the
editorial board of the International
Journal of Technology Marketing. |
Boyan Soubachov
(University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Boyan Soubachov completed his
undergraduate degree in Computer
Engineering at the University of
Pretoria, South Africa in 2009. He
commenced PhD degree studies in
Electrical Engineering at the University
of Cape Town in 2010 with research focus
on cognitive radio systems. Boyan has
published full research papers in
international conferences and is
currently progressing with his
postgraduate studies as of 2011. His
main research interests are signal
processing aspects of cognitive radio
systems and modulation systems,
currently dealing with power loading &
control and channel estimation in OFDM
modulation systems. |
Vasileios P. Spyropoulos (Medical Instrumentation Technology Department, Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece)
Vasileios (Basile) P. Spyropoulos, born
in Thessaloniki, Greece on August 5th,
1953, received a B.Sc. Degree in
Physics, from the University of Athens,
Greece in 1976, and a Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.)
Degree in Physics from the Universities
of Heidelberg and Saarland, Germany, in
1982. He held positions in the ISR
Division of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland,
in the Radiology and Clinical Chemistry
Institutes of the Medical School of the
University of Heidelberg, Germany, he
was Head of the Biomedical Engineering
Department of the Public Enterprise for
Hospital Construction, Athens, Greece,
and he served as Patent Examiner, in the
European Patent Office, Munich, Germany.
Since 1987, he is full Professor of
Biomedical Technology, in the Medical
Instrumentation Technology Department,
of the Technological Education Institute
(TEI) of Athens, Greece and he served or
still serves as Visiting Professor in
the National School of Public Health,
Athens, Greece, University of Patras
Medical School, Greece, National School
of Public Administration, Athens,
Greece, Greek Army Medical Corps
Applications’ School, Athens, Greece,
University of Athens Department of
Informatics, Greece, University of
Heidelberg Medical School, Germany,
Technical University of Ilmenau,
Germany, National Nuclear Physics and
High-Energy Physics Institute (NIKHEF),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, University
of Crete, Greece, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, and
Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA.
He is the Head of the Biomedical
Technology Laboratory of TEI of Athens,
encompassing activities related to
Health-Care Information Technology,
Biomedical Technology and Hospital
Management, Medical Decision Supporting
Systems, and Radiological Protection
Methods and Policies. About 300
contributions in International and
National Conference Proceedings with
Referral System and in International
Scientific Journals, 8 Volumes of
Lecture-Notes and extensive Digital
Educational Material in the E-class of
his Department and of the Department of
Informatics of the University of Athens,
related to the above mentioned fields.
|
Takeshi Takahashi (National Institute of
Information and Communications
Technology, Japan)
Takeshi Takahashi received his Ph.D.
degree in Global Information and
Telecommunication Studies from Waseda
University. He was a researcher at
Tampere University of Technology in
Finland from 2002 to 2004 and worked for
mobile IP and multicast communication
techniques. He became a researcher at
Waseda University in Japan from 2004 to
2006 and continued the research. From
2006 to 2009, he became a strategic
consultant at Roland Berger Japan and
worked for assorted client organizations
to assist their business strategy
building and operations. He is currently
a researcher in the National Institute
of Information and Communications
Technology, Japan and is working for
cybersecurity research and
standardization activities. His research
interests include internet security,
network protocols and content delivery
system. |
Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, South Africa)
Alfredo Terzoli obtained a Laurea cum
Laude in Physics from the University of
Pavia, Italy, in 1980. Having developed
a keen interest in computing, he soon
left academia for the industry, working
first for the internal Information
Systems of Honeywell Italia and later
for Snamprogetti, an engineering society
supporting the activity of ENI (Ente
Nazionale Idrocarburi, a large Italian
parastatal in mining and oil sector).
After spending a few years teaching
Computer Science and computer-assisted
Industrial Automation in an Italian
technical high school, he joined Rhodes
University in South Africa at end of
1989.
He is currently Professor in the
department of Computer Science at that
university, where he heads the Telkom
Centre of Excellence in Distributed
Multimedia. He is also Research Director
of the Telkom Centre of Excellence in
ICT for Development hosted by the nearby
University of Fort Hare. His research
interests are the building of advanced
telecom services that merge realtime and
non-realtime multimedia streams, and ICT
for Development. In the context of the
latter, he started and leads a
multi-disciplinary, long term,
cooperative research project in the
marginalized rural area of Dwesa, South
Africa, now known as the Siyakhula
Living Lab (www.siyakhulaLL.org). Since
2010, ideas and prototypes originating
from the Siyakhula Living Lab are
‘productized’ in Reed House Systems
(www.reedhousesystems.com), a solution
provider specializing in products for
ICT for Development. |
Mamello Thinyane (Telkom Centre of Excellence in ICTD, South Africa)
Mamello received his PhD in Computer
Science from Rhodes University. He is
the Head of the Telkom Centre of
Excellence in ICT for Development at the
University of Fort Hare. He is also a
senior lecturer within the Department of
Computer Science at the same university.
Besides overseeing and managing the
operations of the Centre of Excellence (CoE)
he is also involved with lecturing a
number of postgraduate modules in the
department, supervising students,
involved with the operations at the
Siyakhula Living Lab (the field site of
the CoE research) and also with
operations at ReedHouseSystems (an ICTD
software factory linked to the CoE).
His research interest include ICT for
Development , Multi-Agent Systems,
Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Mobile
Applications, and Social Media. |
Mosiuoa Tsietsi (Rhodes University, South
Africa)
Mosiuoa Tsietsi obtained an MSc in
Computer Science at Rhodes University,
where he developed a hybrid P2P/SIP
framework that enables the creation of
dynamic, self-healing overlay networks
for realtime and non-realtime
applications. In his PhD he investigated
service creation and delivery in IMS - a
core subsystem of 3G/4G mobile networks
- extending the service layer to realise
complex, personalised telecommunication
services. He is currently working as a
postdoctoral researcher for the
department and is the Technical Lead of
the Convergence Research Group. |
George Wells (Rhodes
University, South Africa)
George Wells is Professor and Head of
the Department of Computer Science at
Rhodes University. He completed his PhD
degree in coordination languages for
parallel and distributed programming at
the University of Bristol. His research
interests include parallel and
distributed processing, with a
particular interest in methods for the
simple, efficient use of multicore
processors, and multimedia network
applications. |
Hanno Wirtz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Hanno Wirtz received his diploma (M.Sc.
equivalent) from RWTH Aachen University
in 2008. In his diploma thesis, he
investigated topological DHT overlays
for Wireless Mesh Networks.
Currently, he is working towards his
Ph.D. at the Chair of Communication and
Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen,
where he is a member of the Mobile
ACcess project. His research interests
include wireless multi-hop networks,
especially mesh and ad-hoc networks. |
Luis Zabala
(University of the Basque Country,
Spain)
Luis Zabala received the B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Telecommunications
Engineering from the University of the
Basque Country, Spain, in 1998. Prior to
joining University of the Basque Country
in November 2008, he worked as a network
engineer for Gamesa Corporation. He is
currently working toward the Ph.D.
degree. He has been cooperating in
different R&D projects related to
telecommunications QoS evaluation and
measurement and also in projects about
traffic monitoring and analysis in high
speed networks. His research interests
focus mainly on Quality of Service (QoS)
analysis and modelling and performance
evaluation in high speed networks. |
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