David LOU graduated as Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering at Ghent University in 2005. In the same year he joined the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs as an Innovation Researcher. He had a leading involvement and management role in several European and national research projects (Giant, Smart Touch, Metaverse1, Mistra, Shift-TV, etc.), and standardization bodies (MPEG). In 2016 he joined Huawei Technologies as a Chief Researcher based in Munich, Germany. He is responsible for defining the research strategy, steering disruptive network innovation and coordinating collaboration with industrial and academic partners. He is also leading the standardization activities in various SDOs (e.g. ITU-T, IETF, ETSI, etc.). His interests mainly covers IoT/IIoT/I4.0, next generation industrial networking architecture, deterministic communication, network security and privacy, video streaming and transportation, and immersive communication. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. He is the co-chair of the IIC Networking Task Group & Edge Computing Task Group and has been actively involved in relevant industrial development activities. He has been granted with more than 30+ patents.
