 Sebastian BosseFG-AI4A Co-Chair | Head of Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group, Fraunhofer HHI
Sebastian Bosse is head of the Interactive & Cognitive Systems group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin, Germany. He studied electrical engineering and information technology at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. Sebastian received the Dr.-Ing. degree in computer science (with highest distinction) from the Technical University Berlin in 2018. During his studies, he was a visiting researcher at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA. In 2014, Sebastian was a guest scientist in the Stanford Vision and Neuro-Development Lab (SVNDL) at Stanford University, USA. After 10 years as a research engineer working in the Image & Video Compression group and later in the Machine Learning group, he founded the research group on Interactive & Cognitive Systems at Fraunhofer HHI in 2020 that he has headed since. Sebastian is a lecturer at the German University in Cairo. He is on the board of the Video Quality Expert Group (VQEG) and on the advisory board of the Interational AIQT Foundation. Sebastian is an affiliate member of VISTA, York University, Toronto, and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Since 2021 he has been appointed a chair for the ITU focus group on Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture. His current research interests include the modelling of perception and cognition, machine learning, computer vision, and human-machine interaction over a wide field of applications ranging from multimedia and augmented reality, through medicine to agriculture and industrial production. |
 Raghu Chaliganti
FG-AI4A-WG-AS Co-Chair | Research Associate, Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group, Fraunhofer HHI
Dr. Ragu Chaliganti is a research associate in the domain of digital agriculture at the Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group, Fraunhofer HHI. He has more than 10 years of experience as an agricultural economist and policy professional. He has been appointed as a co-chair for the ITU working group on digital agriculture use cases and solutions (WG-AS) at the Focus Group on "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) for Digital Agriculture" (FG-AI4A ). His Master’s degree is in International Agriculture from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and his Doctoral degree in Agriculture Economics from Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin. During his studies, he was a visiting scholar at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India. In addition to that, he acquired expertise in project management at Gesellschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung GmbH, Witzenhausen, and in data science at Spiced Academy, Berlin. At the Division of Resource Economics (RESS), Humboldt-UniversitäZuzu Berlin, Raghu conducted policy research on the adoption of bioenergy technologies and coordinated a working group on institutional innovations in the framework of the Future Megacities Project. He has also several years of consulting experience taking a lead in project design from inception to implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. In this connection, he provided policy advice for formulating climate resilient agriculture guidelines for the state of Jharkhand, India, and drafted scaling-up strategies for the first ICT-centric Climate Change Knowledge Network for the Indian Agriculture Project. In addition, he conducted several studies and analyses related to seed sector development and agricultural marketing.
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 Ramy Ahmed Fathy
A senior executive, with 20 years of technology and regulatory experience in the digital transformation and telecom space, leading complex digital initiatives in the irrigation, space, energy (distribution and metering), intelligent transportation systems, and telecom mobile and wireless infrastructure. Dr. Fathy’s recent career has focused on senior technical advisory and project leadership in digital solutions design and implementation with solid experience in key verticals like Smart Cities, IoT, M2M, 5G, and related subjects. He has done advisory work on advanced ICT/Digital solutions design and standards-based implementations with an emphasis on security, interoperability, and integration. Dr. Fathy is actively engaged in standardization in the IEEE and ITU. In 2021, he has joined the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board (SASB) as a board member. He is also serving as the Vice-Chairman of one of its standing committees, the IEEE SA NesCom. He is a member of AudCom (2020 & 2021), a member of ProCom (2022), and GEPS representative from 2019. In 2016, he has been elected to serve as the Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 20, the lead ITU-T study group which develops international standards on IoT and its applications including smart cities and communities. Furthermore, he is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the recently established ITU-T Focus Group on “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) for Digital Agriculture” (FG-AI4A), whereby he is leading along with an international team of experts, the use of emerging technologies including AI and IoT; to support optimized agricultural production and management processes. Dr. Fathy has a Ph.D. in Electronics & Communications (cognitive radio systems) and a Masters in crypto. He has numerous publications in scholarly journals and conferences, and he’s the author of one book in electronics.
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 Abdelaziz Htitiou
Researcher, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Germany
Abdelaziz Htitiou is currently a scientific researcher working for the research center for agricultural remote sensing at the Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) in Germany. His research interests focus on improving crop monitoring and phenology analysis through the acquisition, processing, and analysis of remotely sensed data from several satellites using a variety of tools and techniques, including machine learning and deep learning algorithms. He has authored/co-authored publications in this field that have been published in well reputed journals and conference venues.
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 Eun Kyeong Jee
Programme Coordinator, ITU-TSB
Eun Kyeong Jee is a Programme Coordinator in the ITU-TSB responsible for researching international ICT standardization trends, analyzing the structures and activities of ITU-T. She is also exploring opportunities for cooperation and managing cooperation projects between the ITU and the Ministry of Science and ICT(MSIT) of Korea. She joined ITU-TSB in November 2021. She spent the last sixteen years in charge of ICT international cooperation, management of the next generation broadband R&D projects, radio frequency policy, broadcasting market investigation for fair competition and planning the Korean ICT industry strategy in the MSIT of Korea. She has also worked for development of the next generation nuclear fission and fusion energy and led multiple related projects.
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 Xie Jian
Vice Chairman, Food Sub-association, CCOA (Chinese Cereal and Oils Academy) | Former Chief Engineer, China Grain Wuhan Scientific Research & Design Institute
Prof. XIE Jian is the former chief engineer of China Grain Wuhan Scientific Research & Design Institute, as well as the Vice Chairman of Food Sub-association of CCOA (Chinese Cereal and Oils Academy). Prof. Xie has been focusing on grain processing technology research and development, standard for grain & processing technology, machine, code, etc.. since 1982 after graduating from Zhengzhou Food College. Prof. Xie has presided over the completion of more than 10 National Key Science and Technology Project on rice processing, such as “Development and Integrated Application of New Technology for Precision and Intelligent Rice-milling(2019~2022)”. Prof. Xie has draw up or revised over 20 national standards and international standards, such as “GB/T 1354-2018 Rice”, and “ISO7301:2011 Rice-Specification” and “ISO7301:2021 Rice-Specification”, etc. Prof. Xie designed or provided technical advice for rice processing enterprises such as COFCO Rice, Jinjian Rice Group, Beidahuan Rice Group, Myanmar Japan Rice Co., Cambodia Rice Co., etc. |
 Seng-Kyoun Jo
Dr. Jo is a principal research engineer, domain support manager and project leader of agriculture, animal and aquaculture intelligence center in ETRI since 2006. He had worked as Rapporteur for ITU-T SG13 leading in telecommunication network technology from June 2013 to September 2018. Currently, his research is mainly focused towards ICT convergence technology and service in agriculture and aquaculture industries. Dr. Jo achieved his Ph.D. degree in computer science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany. He also got his master degree in electronics & information engineering at KAIST in Korea (Republic of). |
Sukwon Kang
Director, Department of Digital Agriculture, Rural Development Administration (RDA)
Sukwon Kang is the Director of Department of Digital Agriculture at the Rural Development Administration (RDA). He started his career in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for spectral analyzing technologies to assess quality and safety of agricultural products and food ingredients. Then he joined the Systems Studies and Modeling (SSM) team of New Jersey-NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training (NJ-NSCORT) at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. When he is at Rutgers, he studied the Advanced Life Support Systems (ALSS) to support human life during long-duration space missions. Since 2002, he joined the food quality and safety laboratory at RDA for studying the non-destructive technologies to assess quality and safety of agricultural products and food ingredients. Another research topic was using the new renewable energy for the agricultural industry. Also, he participated in international cooperation between RDA and the agricultural research institutes of other countries, and Official Development Assistance (ODA). He holds a PhD in the Biological and Environmental Engineering from the Cornell University, and a BSc and MSc degrees in Biosystems Engineering from the Seoul National University.
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 Hyoung Jun Kim
Chairman, ITU-T SG20
Dr. Hyoung Jun Kim was educated at Kwangwoon University in Seoul, the Rep. of Korea, where he obtained a degree of B.S. and M.S. in 1986 and 1988 respectively. And he got his Ph.D. degree in the field of Computer Science in 2007 at Chungnam National University. He joined ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) in 1988, and he is currently working as Senior Vice President of ETRI. He has had about 33 years research experiences in various divisions of ETRI including Info-Communications Technology Division, IT Strategy Research Division, Information & Telecommunications Technology Division, Protocol Engineering Centre, and Intelligent Convergence Research Lab. He has been currently serving as Chairman of ITU-T SG20 and is Chair of WP1/20 and the co-convenor of JCA-IoT/SC&C under SG20. In addition, he has been also serving as Chair of ASTAP (Apt STAndarization Programme) in APT (Asia Pacific Telecommunity).
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 Kyoung Cheol Koo
Vice President, Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA)
Dr. Kyoung Cheol Koo is the Vice President of the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) which is an ICT-related SDO in the Republic of Korea. He is in charge of the Standardization Division within the TTA. He received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Hanyang University. He finished the Doctoral Coursework in KAIST and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Pai-Chai University. He has been involved in the field of ICT standardization for over 25 years. He started his work in 1992 as a researcher at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). In 2001, he moved to the TTA for improving the standardization system of Korea. He accomplished a lot of projects for ICT standardization such as the establishment of an ICT Standardization Roadmap in Korea, planning of national ICT standardization projects, setting up National ICT Standardization Policy and Strategy, etc. He has played an important delegation role in International Standardization Meetings such as ITU-PP (2002, 2006, and 2018), WTSA, and ITU-T TSAG. He has also engaged in GSC (Global Standards Collaboration), CJK (China-Japan-Korea) IT meeting, 3GPP PCG/OP (2019 and 2022 Vice-Chairman), and oneM2M as Head of Delegation.
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 Yubin Lan
Director, National Center for International Collaboration Research on Precision Agricultural Aviation Pesticides Spraying Technology (NPAAC)
Dr. Yubin Lan is the Director of the National Center for International Collaboration Research on Precision Agricultural Aviation Pesticides Spraying Technology (NPAAC), China. He has been engaged in agricultural engineering over 20 years and has an outstanding international reputation in Precision Agricultural Aviation area. He firstly proposed the concept, technical route and technical system of "Precision Agricultural Aviation" in the world. Yubin Lan has worked at University of Nebraska (Lincoln), University of Georgia, and USDA-ARS. He has won many international honors and is a foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities, foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and foreign academician of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. Yubin Lan has a rich experience in precision agriculture, smart agriculture and digital agriculture, and has established the first "ecological unmanned farm" in China. He is currently the Chairman of the International Society of Precision Agricultural Aviation (ISPAA), Chairman of CIGR Precision Aerial Application Technology Working Group, Scientist of China Agriculture Research System(CARS-15-22), et. al. Yubin Lan obtained his Ph.D. in agricultural engineering from Texas A&M University in 1994. He has published more than 300 papers in internationally renowned journals, and he also has more than 5 academic monographs and 70 invention patents.
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 Nicolás Larrandart
Nicolás Larrandart is an Electrical Engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications and software development sector. He started his career in Telefónica, a global telecommunications company, working in the end-customer enterprise engineering team and later in the cybersecurity product team and enterprise technical sales team. Currently, he is co-founder and CTO of Auravant, an Agtech platform leading digitalization in agriculture and reducing environmental impact globally. |
 Gyu Myoung Lee
CG-AIoT Convenor, ITU-T SG20
Gyu Myoung Lee is with the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK, as a Professor from 2014 and with KAIST Institute for IT convergence, Korea, as an Adjunct Professor from 2012. Prior to joining the LJMU, he has worked with the Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France, from 2008. Until 2012, he had been invited to work with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. He also worked as a research professor in KAIST, Korea and as a guest researcher in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, in 2007. His research interests include AI powered Internet of things, digital twin, computational trust, trust in data and AI, privacy preserving with blockchain, knowledge centric networking and services, multimedia services, and energy saving technologies. He has been actively working for standardization in ITU-T, IETF and oneM2M, etc. He was the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on data processing and management (FG-DPM) to support IoT and smart cities & communities and currently serves as the WP3 chair in SG13, the Rapporteur of Q16/13 and Q4/20 as well as a vice-chair of FG-AN and FG-AI4A in ITU-T. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He received his BS degree from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and his MS and PhD degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2007.
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Mythili Menon
Mythili Menon works as Project Officer at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in the domain of standardization for new and emerging technologies. She serves as the Advisor of the ITU/WMO/UNEP Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Natural Disaster Management (FG-AI4NDM). Mythili possesses a strong background in environmental science, standardization and the policy frameworks underlying sustainable development issues. Between 2015-2017, she worked for the ITU-T Study Group 20 on 'Internet of Things and Smart Cities and Communities' and ITU-T Study Group 5 on ‘Environment, Climate Change and Circular Economy’. Previously, she worked as the Standardization Lead at Mandat International for various EU Horizon 2020 projects. Mythili holds a Masters in 'Standardization, Social Regulation and Sustainable Development' from the University of Geneva. She completed her Bachelors in 'Environmental Science and Chemistry' from University College Utrecht in the Netherlands. The areas relating to the sustainable development goals, artificial intelligence, blockchain, intelligent transport systems, disaster management, data management, smart cities, and IoT are of enduring interest to her and she has co-authored several publications on these subjects.
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 Andreas Meyer-Aurich
Group Leader, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy Max-Eyth-Allee (ATB)
Dr. Andreas Meyer-Aurich has a background in Natural Sciences and Agricultural Economics. At ATB he analyzes agricultural systems and their potential to include digital tools and technologies. He published 49 articles in scientific journals and coordinated various reseach projects on agriculture in interaction with innovative technologies. He is active in the German Society on Informatics in Agriculture and teaches at the “Humboldt University zu Berlin”. Currently he is coordinating a Horizon Europe project with 11 European partners on “Digtalisation as enabler for agroecology”. |
 Juyoung Park
Principal Member of Engineering Staff, ETRI, Rep. of Korea
Dr. Juyoung Park has joined ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) as a member of R&D group in 2001, just right after he got his Ph.D degree from the Chungnam National University in Korea. His research area includes IoT, multicast, QoS/QoE and WPT technologies and their killer applications. Currently he takes a great interest in Smart-agriculture for the sustainable future. He also has experiences in the standardization activities in ITU-T, ISO, IEC, and JTC1. His noticeable standardization works done regarding Digital Agriculture under ITU-T SG20 are ITU-T Y.4466 “Framework of smart greenhouse service,” and ITU-T Y.4482 “Requirements and framework for smart livestock farming based on the Internet of things”. Currently he is developing standards regarding Digital Agriculture under ITU-T SG20, including ITU-T Y.Sup.SmartAgri-usecases "Use cases of IoT based smart agriculture" and ITU-T Y.DM-SLF “Conceptual data model of smart livestock farming service”. |
Bertrand Rouet-Leduc
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
Bertrand Rouet-Leduc obtained his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2018, in machine learning (ML) and materials science. Since then, Bertrand has been developing ML methods for geoscience at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he held a permanent staff position, and at Kyoto University, where he is an assistant professor. In 2020 Bertrand co-founded Geolabe in order to leverage advances in geophysics and ML towards impactful sustainable and efficient applications. Bertrand is also Geophysical Journal International's editor for ML-related research. Bertrand's work has been published notably in high impact scientific literature (Nature, PNAS, etc.) and has been featured repeatedly in scientific (Scientific American, Physics Today, etc.) and general media (New York Times, Washington Post etc.).
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