Biographies

Les Brown has over 40 years of experience specializing in the standardization of wire-line data communication technologies, including voice-band modems, DSL modems, and wire-line based home networking. He has held many leadership positions in ITU-T and Broadband Forum over the years. Les is currently the Rapporteur for ITU-T Question 18 of Study Group 15 and Associate Rapporteur for ITU-T Question 4 of Study Group 15.​ ​

Qiang Cheng is a senior expert in the standardization, and has over 20 years of experience specializing in the research and standardization of access/home network technologies, e.g. DSL, PON, VLC, Wi-Fi. He actively participates in ITU-T SG15 Q18 and CCSA TC6 WG2. He has drafted more than 20 China national standards in access/home network area. As an editor, he participated in the formulation of G.vlc and G.fin-SA recommendations. ​

Mr Jianbin Duan got his MS degree in Material Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2014. Since then, he has been working in YOFC for about 9 years, engaged in development and reliability research of optical cables and connectors. He is a member of IEC SC86A WG3 “Optical cables”& ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 WG3“Customer Premises Cabling”.​ ​

Dr. Effenberger has worked in the optical access field at Bellcore, Quantum Bridge Communications (Motorola), and Futurewei Technologies, where he is now the Fellow for fixed access network technology. His team works on forward-looking fiber access technologies, with several “world’s first” prototypes and trials. Frank is the rapporteur for ITU-T Q2/15, vice chair of ETSI F5G ISG, is a Fellow of the OSA and the IEEE, and holds 130 US patents. ​

Ronald Heron is responsible for next generation access fiber strategies at Nokia. As an Electrical Engineer from Concordia University in Montreal, he has guided development and deployment of FTTH, DSL, radio and long-haul fiber networks, first at Bell Canada, then Alcatel and now Nokia. Based in Ottawa, Canada, he provides CTO guidance and is an active contributor to industry forums and optical access conferences around the world.​​​

Lincoln Lavoie is a senior engineer at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory, responsible for the Broadband and Open Source programs offered by the lab, including: 5G, NFV, Gfast, DSL, Wi-Fi, and PON programs. He currently serves as the technical chair of the Broadband Forum and is a member of the Linux Foundation Anuket TSC. Lincoln has worked in the broadband industry for the past 20 years, with a focus on access technologies, and most recently the migration to virtualized and disaggregated technologies. Lincoln received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 2008.​ ​

He is a senior expert and mainly engages in technical research and standardization on advanced technology of fiber access network and home network, and has extensive experience of WLAN technology Research as well. And he also serves as the co-editor of ITU-T recommendation G.FIN-PHY.​​ ​

From 2018, as director of standard team of Fixed network and multimedia, leading the research on standardization of Optical network, home networking and multimedia. Contiguously promote ITU-T SG15/Braodband Forum/CCSA/IEEE 802 standard developing since 2006, mainly contributed to Optical access Network specifications, for example XG-PON/XGS-PON/50G-PON, 10G-EPON/25/50G-EPON, TR101/TR156 etc. ​ ​

Yuanqiu Luo is a Director of Optical Access Standards in Futurewei Technologies, USA. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. Dr. Luo is an Editor of ITU standards G.987.3 (XG-PON), G.988 (OMCI), G.989.2 (NG-PON2), G.9802 (multiwave PON), G.9803 (radio over fiber), G.9804.2 (50G-PON), and G.9807.1(XGS-PON). She is the Chair of the IEEE 802.3dk Task Force (100G and 200G BiDi). She was the Chief Editor of IEEE standard 802.3cp (10G/25G/50G BiDi) and a Clause Editor of IEEE standard 802.1AS (time synchronization). Dr. Luo is the IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section Photonics Society Chair. She is a member of the IEEE ComSoc Educational Services Board (ESB). She is currently an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Luo received the Best Paper Award from IEEE & OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. She is a two-time recipient of the IEEE Standards Award (both 2011 and 2021). In 2021 she was named a Star in Computer Networking and Communications by the IEEE ComSoc N2 Women. In 2022 she won the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award for outstanding innovations on highspeed optical access system design and leadership in driving international standards. ​​​ ​

Greg Mirsky has over 25 years of experience in developing networking solutions and further advancing networking technology. His areas of research include network resiliency and quality assurance by enhancing fault management and performance monitoring methods, efficient Segment Routing in IPv6 network, control and user plane separation in disaggregated networking systems, and network slicing for performance-constrained services. He is an active contributor to SDOs (IETF, BBF, and MEF). Greg Mirsky has 29 published IETF RFCs, is the leader of the Performance, Experience, and Application Testing project stream at BBF, the editor BBF TR-390.2 Performance Measurement from the IP Edge to a Customer Equipment Using STAMP, and an inventor with 10+ granted patents. Greg Mirsky has a BS in Physics degree from Latvian University in Riga, Latvia.​

Luca has more than twenty-five years of experience in Information and Communication Technologies with Telecom Italia. In the company, he is coordinator of the fixed access and transport standardisation since 2006. At present Luca is co-chairman of WP1 in SG13 of ITU-T. In ETSI he is vice-chairman of ISG Experiential Network Intelligence (ENI), where he is also part of the PoC management team and he has been WI rapporteur. Few weeks ago he was elected chairman of ISG F5G. In the past, Luca has covered leading roles in various standards initiatives.​​ ​

Yue Sun is an expert in optical access field of China Unicom and has been engaged in research and standardization on optical access technology for years, including the next-generation PON, industrial PON, FTTR and ODN. Currently he is serving as the editor of ITU-T recommendation G.fin-NM.​​​ ​