 Jamil Chawki
Chair of Linux Foundation AI Outreach committee and CEO Orange AI Marketplace
Dr Jamil Chawki is an Intrapreneur Founder and CEO of Orange AI Marketplace which inspires and supports companies in developing their usage of AI to grow their Business. He is Chairman of the LF AI Foundation Outreach Committee and in charge of open source activity at Orange. Jamil worked as Chairman of ITU-T SG 13 Cloud Computing Working Party and convenor of the Cloud Computing Collaborative Teams between ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC1. Before this position, Jamil was a Director of Enterprise 2.0 research program working on Software as a Service marketplace architecture for France Telecom. In 2004 he was in charge of the first Fibre To The Home ‘FTTH’ Triple Play pilot project for Jordan Telecom. From 2000 to 2002, Jamil was Chairman and CEO of a telecom operator in Lebanon ‘Ogero Telecom’. His main responsibilities were to manage the network and Information System (OSS/BSS)restructuring and to supervise the implementation of the first Gigabit Ethernet network in the Middle East region. Prior to 2000 he worked for 10 years as an R&D engineer and manager in the field of optical WDM and IP transport networks at France Telecom. He published numerous technical IEEE/IET papers and holds over 20+ patents. |
 Kwang-Cheng Chen
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida
Kwang-Cheng Chen has been a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, since 2016. From 1987 to 2016, Dr. Chen worked with SSE, COMSAT, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, National Tsing Hua University, HP Labs. in mobile communications and networks. He visited TU Delft (Netherland) in 1998, Aalborg University (Denmark) in 2008, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012-2012 and 2015-2016, and honorably appointed as the Sungkyunkwan Fellow Professor (Korea) in 2013. Dr. Chen has been actively involving in the organization of various IEEE conferences (most recently as the Executive Chair for the
IEEE GLOBECOM 2020, and serving editorships with a few IEEE journals (most recently as the series editor on
Data Science and AI for Communications in the
IEEE Communications Magazine), together with various volunteer services to the IEEE, Communications Society, Vehicular Technology Society, and Signal Processing Society, such as founding the Technical Committee on Social Networks in the IEEE Communications Society. He founded a wireless IC design company in 2001, which was acquired by MediaTek Inc. in 2004. Dr. Chen also has contributed essential technology to various international standards, namely IEEE 802 wireless LANs, Bluetooth, LTE and LTE-A, and 5G-NR. He has authored and co-authored over 300 IEEE publications, 4 books published by Wiley and River (most recently,
AI in Wireless Robotics, 2019), and 24 granted US patents. Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow and has received a number of awards including
2011 IEEE COMSOC WTC Recognition Award,
2014 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, 2014 IEEE COMSOC AP Outstanding Paper Award. Dr. Chen's current research interests include wireless networks, artificial intelligence and machine learning, IoT/CPS, social networks and data analytics, and cybersecurity. |
 Sudhir Dixit
Working Group Chair, Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF)
Dr. Sudhir Dixit is a Senior Fellow and Evangelist of Basic Internet at the Basic Internet Foundation and heads its US operations. He is also a Board Member & Working Group Chair at the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). From 2015 to 2017 he was the CEO and Co-Founder of a start-up, Skydoot, Inc, in the cloud-based and collaboration space. From December 2013 to April 2015, he was a Distinguished Chief Technologist and CTO of the Communications and Media Services for the Americas Region of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services in Palo Alto, CA, and prior to this he was the Director of Hewlett-Packard Labs India from September 2009. From June 2009 to August 2009, he was a Director at HP Labs in Palo Alto. Before joining HP, he held various leadership positions at BlackBerry, Nokia, NSN and Verizon Communications. Sudhir Dixit has 21 patents granted by the US PTO and has published over 200 papers and edited, co-edited, or authored eight books by Wiley, Springer and Artech House. He has been a technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and is presently on the editorial boards of IEEE Spectrum Magazine, Cambridge University Press Wireless Series and Springer’s Wireless Personal Communications Journal. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and, since 2010, he has been a Docent of Broadband Mobile Communications for Emerging Economies at the University of Oulu, Finland. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of IET and IETE, Dixit holds a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida. |
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Ved P. Kafle
Research Manager, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Dr. Ved P. Kafle is a research manager at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo. He holds a concurrent position of Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Electro- Communications, Tokyo. He is working as a Rapporteur in ITU-T Study Group 13. He is an ITU-T SG 13 Fellow. He is involved in research, development, and standardization of new technologies of communication networks. His research interests include information-centric networking (ICN), autonomic resource provisioning for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), network slicing, and 5G systems. He has edited many ITU-T Recommendations related with the next generation network (NGN) and future networks. He received the ITU Association of Japan Encouragement (2009) and Accomplishment (2017) awards, and Best Paper award from ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conferences three times (2009, 2014, 2018). |
Leo Lehmann
ITU-T Study Group 13 Chairman
Since April 2015, Dr. Leo Lehmann is the elected Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 (Future networks including cloud computing, mobile and next-generation networks). Before his election, he already served the ITU-T as vice-chairman and working party co-chairman of Study Group 13 since October 2008. From 2012 until 2014, he also acts as Vice-chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group on Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery (FG DR&NRR). Afore he was the Rapporteur on “multimedia service mobility management” in the ITU-T Study Group 16 (Multimedia Services) for many years. An internationally recognized expert, Leo has worked in telecommunications for 24 years and has experience in private industry as well as the public sector. Prior to joining OFCOM, Switzerland in 2002, Leo held senior management positions in network engineering, system design and services at major telecommunications players on both the vendor and operator side of business.
As designated expert on Next Generation Networks and Future Networks including 5G and Multimedia, he has contributed many conferences and workshops. He is one of the winners of the best paper award of the ITU-T Kaleidoscope event 2011“The fully networked human? − Innovations for future networks and services”. |
 Jean-Paul Pallois
Senior Wireless Professional, Huawei Technologies
Jean-Paul Pallois has more than 25 years of experience in the communications industry worldwide; he is well-travelled as he lived and worked in many places outside Europe, such as the Reunion Island (France), Toronto (Canada), Mountain View (US) and London (UK). Before joining Huawei Technologies, Jean-Paul worked at Goupil (a French PC manufacturer), Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent, where he acted as Wireless Strategist and Strategic Marketing Professional. He represented Nortel in TMF projects and was the Alcatel-Lucent representative in the NGMN and UMTS forums. Jean-Paul has contributed to various industry conferences such as MWC, CTIA, TMF, LTE World Summit, SON and WWRF Conferences and contributed to industry publications with recent ones dedicated to the impact of AI/ML on wireless networks. Jean-Paul is part of the Wireless EU Product team and located in Paris. His current activities are focused on OSS and SON portfolio planning, Network Automation, Big Data Analytics. He leads Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for Wireless in Europe. |
 Luca Pesando
Telecom Italia
Luca has a master degree in Physics a PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Torino and twenty-five years of experience in Information and Communication Technologies with Telecom Italia. He is coordinator of the activities in standardisation for wireline technologies since 2006, managing the participation in the relevant standards bodies in collaboration with the coordinators of the other standardisation areas in the company.
He is co-Chairman of Working Party 1 (IMT2020 or 5G) of SG13 in ITU-T for the study period 2017-2020 and has been previouosly one of the vice-chairmen of the FG IMT2020 for the pre-standard activities. In ETSI he has been previously Chairman of the ETSI Project E2NA and of the M493 joint WG M493 in TC NTECH till the end of 2017. He is following the Experiential Network Intelligence ISG activities with particular focus on PoC selection and support. In the past years he has been Vice-President of the Open IPTV Forum. Previously he worked in the optical communications and networking R&D fields, with management roles in internal and external collaboration and consultancy projects. He is co-inventor for several patents in TIM portfolio. |
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. |
 Tina Tsou
Arm, Enterprise Architect
Tina Tsou is an innovator and a visionary with far-reaching accomplishments within the technical engineering realm. As Arm’s Enterprise Architect, Tina serves in the highly visible Technical Lead role for the Enterprise Open Source Enablement team, where she analyzes, designs, and implements robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm’s architecture within open source communities and projects. Tina also serves as Arm’s Edge Computing Team Lead. As the company’s open source thought leader, she builds powerful partnerships with and influences open source communities in support of multiple architectures. Tina previously served as the Digital Domain Expert (Connectivity) for Philips Lighting, where she implemented NB-IoT in an outdoor carrier project with China Mobile and Huawei. She released Bluetooth + ZigBee combo chip architecture, and delivered connectivity hardware/software platform (ZigBee 3.0, Wi-Fi). Tina’s earlier experiences include her role as Principal Engineer, Fixed Network BU (Huawei Technologies), Principal Engineer/Senior Staff Engineer, IP BU, (Futurewei Technologies-Huawei USA), and Technical Lead and Senior Staff Engineer (Huawei Technologies). The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Tina 100+ patents. She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies. Tina was the first woman to chair an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group from a Chinese business enterprise. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Akraino Edge Stack Technical Steering Committee. |
