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Biographies



​​​Shin-Gak Kang
Vice Chairman of IT​U-T SG16, Co-Chair of ITU-T SG16 CG-Metaverse​

Shin-Gak Kang is the Assistant Vice President of ETRI, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Republic of Korea. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea in 1984, 1987, and 1998, respectively. He joined ETRI in 1984 and is currently Head of the Standards and Open Source Research Division. He is also Adjunct Professor of ETRI School of University of Science and Technology in Korea. He has actively participated in many international standardization activities of many SDOs including ITU-T SG 7, SG 17, SG 11, SG 13, SG 16, SG 20, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6, IETF and IEEE NGSON as Rapporteur, Convenor, Editor, and major contributor since his first joining to ITU-T SG 8 meeting in 1988. He served as ITU-T SG11 Vice-Chairman and its WP Chair from 2013 to 2021. Since 2004, he has been working as Convenor for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6/WG 7 on Future Network. He is also c​urrently serving as Vice-Chairman of ITU-T SG16 and Co-Chairman of the CG-Metaverse.

 Yuan Zhang
ITU-T SG16 WP3 co-Chair, ITU-T SG16 Question 12 Rapporteur, China Telecom

Ms. Yuan Zhang, Deputy Director of Big Data and AI Research Center in China Telecom Research Institute, is the Co-chair of ITU-T WP3/16, Co-chair of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 MPEG-VCM, and the Rapporteur of ITU-T Q12/16. Yuan is responsible for R&D and standardization of AI. ​
Lu Yu
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 29/WG 4 Convenor, Zhejiang University​

Lu Yu is a Distinguished Professor in the College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering at Zhejiang University. Her research areas include 2D/3D visual content representation and compression, human visual perception and image/video quality assessment. She developed a series of technologies adopted for multiple image/video coding related IEEE, ISO/IEC as well as ISO/IEC and ITU-T joint standards. She is the Convenor of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 4, MPEG Video Coding, and leading standardization activities such as immersive video coding, essential video coding, low complexity enhancement video coding, and neural network compression, etc






Yuntao Wang​​
ITU-T SG16 Question 5 Rapporteur, CAICT​

Yuntao Wang, Senior Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer of Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communication Technology(CAICT), Deputy Director of Internet Governance Research Center of CAICT, Head of Overall Team of Artificial Intelligence Team of CAICT, Head of Overall Team of Blockchain Team of CAICT, Vice Chairman of Young Experts Committee of CAICT, Rapporteur of ITU-T Q5/16 of United Nations International Telecommunication Union, Postgraduate Tutor of Institute of Telecommunication Science and Technology, National Science and Technology expert (Ministry of Science and Technology), expert appointed by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, expert appointed by the Chinese Institute of Electronics, expert appointed by the Education and Examination Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.




Ismael Arribas
Co-founder, Kunfud®, Chief Compliance Officer at KRON WORLD S.L.

Global and Collective Entrepreneur from Kingdom of Spain, driving an independent compliance firm named Kunfud® since 2006. Committed with Standards at ISO TC 307, CEN-CENELEC JTC19, Liaison Officer between CEN-CENELEC and ETSI ISG- PDL, ITU-T FGDLT and Q-22 at Study Group 16. Founding member of INATBA (https://inatba.org/) and Co-chair at Standards Committee in INATBA.  Principal Advisor for standardization at LaCChain (https://www.lacchain.net/#/home?lang=en) and IDB Lab. Co-Founder of various Startups like Blue Future Organization, Lumiversity and CLAUDIA.

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Kepeng Li
ITU-T SG16 Metaverse CG Co-chair, Tencent
Kepeng is the Co-chairman of ITU-T SG16 Metaverse Correspondence Group. He is also the senior standard engineer in Tencent. Currently, he mainly engaged in standardization of Metaverse, blockchain, information security, etc. He has actively participated in many international standardization activities of many SDOs including ITU-T SG 16, SG 17, ISO, IETF, W3C, IEEE, OMA, etc. He served as ITU-T SG17 WP4 co-chair, IETF ACE WG co-chair, OMA CD WG chair, etc.




​Noah Luo

ITU-T SG16 Chair

Noah Luo, ITU-T SG16 chairman since 2016, senior director and departmental chief in standards and industry development, Huawei Technologies, Co.,Ltd, is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, in charge of development of strategic relationships with leading international standards organizations including ITU,ISO,IEC, ISO/IEC JTC1 and scores of others. He was educated in Xi’an Jiaotong University, China with a Doctorate in Automatic Control: Theory and Application, he spent two years in Chinese Academy of Sciences,  Beijing, as a postdoctoral research scientist before joining Huawei. Dr.Luo has experience of working in international standards organizations since the early 2000s and he had been based in Europe for leading and supervising standards and ecosystem development tasks 2013-2019 before his current posting in Switzerland.

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Heung Youl ​​Youm
Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security | Professor, Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University​, South Korea

He is Chairman of ITU-T SG17 (Security). He is working as a professor for the Department of Information Security Engineering of the Soonchunhyang University, Korea from September 1990. He is currently the Director of SCH Cybersecurity Research Centre from Dec. 2013. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2003 and has actively contributed to the work of SG17 as a core member of security experts. He was an associate Rapporteur of SG 17 Question 10/17 from 2003 to 2004. For the Study Period (2005 – 2008), he served as a Rapporteur of ​Question 9/17. He was a Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 from 2009 to 2016. He was a Chairman of Working Party 2 (Application Security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2009–2012) and was a Chairman of Working Party 3 (Identity management and cloud computing security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2013–2016). He has been a Project Editor for many approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in DLT security, authentication/application protocols, de-identification techniques, USN/IoT security, 5G security, and cybersecurity.  He is a Commissioner for the Korea Personal Information Protection Commission, a Chairman for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007, and a Board director for Korea Information/Security agency. He was a president of KIISC (Korea Institute on information security and cryptology) in 2011 and is an emeritus president of KIISC. He had worked for ETRI as a senior research engineer from 1982 to 1990. He had been involved in developing high speed transmission system. He had been involved in many (advisory or self-performance evaluation) committees for the Korea National Security Office for the Korea Presidential office from 2018 to 2022, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) from 2008 to 2016, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) from 2013 to 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Energy (MoTIE) from 2015 to 2017. He had been involved in self-performance evaluation) committees for the Ministry of Science and ICT since 2017. He had been the chairman for the committee on information security in the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games from January 2015 to May 2018. He received a Bachelor degree in 1981, a Master degree in 1983, and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, all in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea.​​​​​​
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Hideki Yamamoto 
Vice-chairman, ITU-T SG16, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (OKI), Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Hideki Yamamoto is a product manager of video delivery system business unit in Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd in Japan. The product, called OKI MediaServer, is popular as an IPTV platform based on ITU-T H.721 and H.702 and was adopted in ITU IPTV IPv6 Global Testbed (I3GT).  He has a long history of IPTV standardization in ITU-T. He was one of editors of the ITU-T recommendation of IPTV audience measurement (ITU-T H.741.0 - H.741.4), IPTV based digital signage system framework (ITU-T H.780), multimedia framework for IPTV (ITU-T H.763.3), accessibility profiles for IPTV services (ITU-T H.702) and so on. Now, he is a vice chairman of ITU-T SG16 (Multimedia and digital services), co-Chairman of WP2 (e-services including accessibility, human interface, vehicular multimedia, digital health and so on) in ITU-T SG16, and Chairman of Expert Group on Multimedia Applications in Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Standardization Program (ASTAP).

Jisu Kang
Co-founder, Chief Research Officer (CRO), KLleon

Jisu Kang is the Co-founder and Chief Research Officer (CRO) of KLleon. Jisu Kang received his bachelor's and master's degrees from KAIST, majoring in artificial intelligence. Jisu Kang was registered for Forbes 30 under 30 in 2022, recognizing his leadership. KLleon (https://klleon.io/, https://klone.chat/), founded by Jisu Kang, aims to revolutionize communication using digital humans. Humans have temporal and spatial limitations in communication, and digital humans can solve these limitations.



Khizer Khaderi
Senior Advisor, Global Esports Federation; Director, Stanford Human Perception Lab​

Dr. Khizer Khaderi is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University. Khaderi is the Director/Founder of the Stanford Human Perception Laboratory (HPL) and the Stanford Vision Performance Center (VPC), and faculty at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Stanford Human Performance Alliance. Khaderi is a renowned Neuro-Ophthalmic surgeon, technologist and futurist. He founded Vizzario Inc, a perceptual AI company, spun out from HPL. Khaderi has extensive domain expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MxR), wearables, applied neuroscience, human factors, and human-machine interfaces/interaction. His research interests include developing personalized human intelligent systems for the metaverse/Web3 based on the human brain and sensory systems, developing technologies to optimize human performance, and combining biological and computational principles to expand our capabilities in research, clinical practice, and everyday life. Dr. Khaderi's approach to advance research interests and develop practical applications for everyday use is building collaborative partnerships across academia and industry. Dr. Khaderi’s experience across industry sectors include consumer electronics, gaming, Metaverse/Web3, retail, life science, sports/Esports health care, Pharma, e-commerce, to name a few. He has developed novel technologies in these areas and generated multiple invention patents. Selected as a “40 under 40”, he contributed to President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology regarding vision technology and the aging population. He also advises multiple companies, venture firms and organizations including the Global Esports Federation, Magic Leap, Riot Games, Intel, Activision, Unity, Epic Games, Google, FB, Microsoft, Apple, NBA, Aerie Pharma, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.​​
​​Bilel Jamoussi
Chief of Study Groups TSB, ITU

A distinguished engineer, leader, and diplomat; multilingual standardization expert and holder of 22 patents, Tunisian born Dr. Bilel Jamoussi has been Chief of the Study Groups Department of ITU Standardization Bureau (TSB) in Geneva Switzerland since 2010. He has led the coordination of the bureau’s standards moving activities into a new era characterized by digital transformation that needs an increased collaboration with vertical sectors such as healthcare, transportation, utility, and banking. His innovative approach has served as a catalyst to launch new standards initiatives related to emerging technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, AI, and Quantum, attracting a new wave of memberships from non-traditional players. He has also been credited with bringing the telco and financial sectors together to develop digital payments guidelines and standards with the aim of advancing financial inclusion globally. Bilel is recognized as a key figure in the ICT industry. Key achievements under his tenure have been important new standards while effectively managing staff by recruiting new talent, improving gender balance, delivering new work methods, and staying within budget. Prior to 2010, he worked in the private sector for 15 years and held senior executive positions such as Director of Standards for Nortel. In this role, he participated in over 90 standards-making bodies worldwide. In the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), he authored a number of Internet standards. As an IEEE Senior Member, he was elected to the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Board of Governors and the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group. He holds a BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Bilel has lived in Tunisia, Canada, the USA, and Switzerland, giving him a unique global viewpoint. He is fluent in Arabic, French, and English and speaks some Spanish and German.