Over the years, Les has worked for Motorola Codex, Conexant Mindspeed, Centillium Communications, Texas Instruments, and Infineon Technologies. He currently works for Lantiq.

Wael William Diab works as a Senior Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Broadcom. He is responsible for defining technical strategy for the Infrastructure & Networking Group (ING). Prior to Broadcom, Diab worked at Cisco in various technical, architectural, and business leadership roles, focused on next-generation networking products and technologies.

Diab is a Senior Member of the IEEE and was elected as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group, serving in that position since 2008. Diab is a member of the IEEE-SA Standards Board and the IEEE Standards Education Committee (SEC). He was elected to the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG) and serves as its Vice-Chair. He is also the IEEE-MGA liaison to the IEEE-SA.

Named winner of the 2011 TechAmerica Innovator Awards for his leadership in Green Technology, Diab was recognized by the David Packard Medal of Achievement and Innovator Awards for his leadership in the development of Energy Efficient Ethernet Networking solutions.

Diab holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, a BA degree in Economics from Stanford, and an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business. He holds over 100 US issued patents in the networking space.

For the last fifteen months, Dan has been leading the “IEEE 802.3 Next Generation 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Optical Ethernet Study Group.” This project recently was approved to become the IEEE 802.3bm Task Force.

Dan has been working at Applied Micro for a year and helping them to establish a technology strategy that will position them for success in Data Center networking. In addition to his responsibility to identify new technology opportunities, he represents them in key networking consortia and standards bodies including IEEE 802.3, OIF, and the Ethernet Alliance.

Prior to his employment at Applied Micro, Dan was Principal Engineer for Physical Layer Technologies at Hewlett Packard’s Networking Business unit. He worked at HP for 31 years spanning a career that started in production assembly and worked through a technical ladder to his ultimate role as a Master level engineer.

Dan has been working in the IEEE 802.3 Working Group since 1988, participated in many projects, and led the 802.3ak 10GBASE-CX4 project to successful completion.

He is married, has three grown children, and loves the outdoors. He and his wife live on a 50-acre ranch in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Marek received his PhD degree in the area of electronics and telecommunication, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Currently, he holds more than 35 international and European patents, published in books and has more than 40 magazine and conference publications.

He has been active in the PON area since 2001 and was chief architect and a member of the founding team of Passave, acquired by PMC-SIERRA in 2006, handling mainly optical communication, systems, and architecture for silicon.

He is active in PON standard bodies and has participated in the IEEE 802.3ah project, ITU-T SG15/Q2 and FSAN, and is serving in SIEPON as TF1 Chair (Service Configuration and Provisioning Task Force).

He is currently a PMC-SIERRA Fellow.

Prior to Teknovus, Glen worked at the Advanced Technology Lab at Alloptic, Inc., where he was responsible for design and performance analysis of PON scheduling protocols and was involved in development of the very first EPON system.

Dr. Kramer received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California at Davis, where he was awarded an NSF grant to study next-generation broadband access networks.  Glen has authored 16 patents.  His book Ethernet Passive Optical Networks has been published in English (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Chinese (BUPT Press, 2007).

Yoichi Maeda was born in Aichi, Japan on May 19, 1955.  He received his B. E. and M. E. Degrees in Electronic Engineering from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, in 1978 and 1980, respectively. Since joining the Electrical Communications Laboratories of NTT in 1980, he has been engaged in research and development on transport network systems for broadband communications including SDH, ATM and IP technologies.  From 1988 to 1989, he worked for British Telecom Research Laboratories, UK, as an exchange research engineer between NTT and BT.  His main areas of expertise are: transport networks and systems, optical access networks and systems, network service integration, and global standardization strategy planning. 

 

Mr Maeda has been Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 15 since 2004 and has actively led the studies in the area of the development of standards on optical transport network infrastructures, systems and equipment to facilitate the evolution toward intelligent transport networks.

 

Mr Maeda is a member of the IEEE and a Fellow of IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) of Japan.  He is the Feature Editor on Standards for the IEEE Communications Magazine.

 

Having been appointed as CEO and S.V.P. of TTC (The Telecommunication Technology Committee) in October 2010, he currently leads this Japanese telecommunication standardization organization.

In 1991 joined the Optical Communications Group of CET, the R&D Labs of Portuguese incumbent operator. Since then has worked in Research and Development activities on Optical Communications and is presently responsible by the Unit Transport Networks.

During his professional activity has worked in areas such as digital transport networks based in PDH/SDH, cable technologies for residential customers, and lately in FTTH networks. It is the delegate of PT in FSAN/ITU standard related activities.

Mr. Nikolich is an executive consultant serving as the Chief Strategy Officer for YAS Broadband Ventures LLC in the technology, standards, intellectual property and venture investing fields since 2001.    He is and IEEE Fellow and Chairman of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee since 2000, overseeing the ratification of approximately 150 standards and the 50 current projects in wired and wireless communications networking with 1500+ active members.  He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activities Board and active leader of the IEEE-Standards Association.  He holds several patents, serves on the technology advisory boards of companies developing emerging communications technology products and provides strategic consulting services to executives in the communications industry. In 1998 he co-founded Broadband Access Systems, Inc. (BAS), leading the development of next-generation Cable Modem Termination Systems, where he was Vice President of Technology and Standards.  Prior to BAS, Mr. Nikolich has held a number of technical positions of increasing responsibility at large and small networking and technology companies beginning in 1978 (e.g., Racal-Datacom, Applitek, Motorola, Analogic). In 1978&79 he received a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Biology and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dr. Shen Chengbin was born in Jilin Province, China, and got Ph. D degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Now he is with Shanghai Research Institute of China Telecom as the R&D Director. He has engaged in development and application of PON technologies in China for ten years and is the China Telecom's domain expert in Access Networks.

He is inventor of more than ten patents, and author of more than 20 papers.

Dr. Shen has been active in PON standardization orgnizations, such asCCSA,  IEEE, BBF, and FSAN. He joined the Service Interoperability of Ethernet Passive Optical Networks Working Group in 2010, and is participating in Package C of the standard. He is also the co-editor of BBF TR-200 and WT-287.

Since 2011 Technical Director on Optical Technology Standards at Huawei Technologies.

Spent whole of his career on several aspects of optical fibre transmission technologies: application and system engineering for PDH, SDH, OTN, DWDM, PON equipment, working at Philips Telecom, AT&T, Lucent Technologies (1980 – 2003), Senior Optical Product Manager on FTTH CPEs at Genexis in the Netherlands (2004 – 2011) and consulting with Finisar Co. for ITU-T representation (2004 – 2011).

Since 1989 participating in ITU-T Study Group15 Q.6: "Characteristics of optical systems for terrestrial transport networks”, since 2006 Rapporteur of Q.6, Editor of Recommendations G.664 (optical safety), G.693 (very short distances optical interface specifications), G.695 (CWDM optical interface specifications). Since 2011 participating in IEEE 802.3 for 100G and 400G client side optical interface specifications.

Ravi Subramaniam is currently serving in the role of Technical Director for the IEEE conformity Assessment Program where he is responsible for establishing and supporting conformity assessment activities based on IEEE standards. Prior to taking on this role, he served as Director, International and Smart Grid Operations at MET Laboratories. His background encompasses testing various products to multiple national and international standards involving product safety and EMC.

Ravi also served at General Manager for MET’s Asian Operations from 2006-2009 where he was responsible for setting up and managing MET's Asia branch in Shenzhen, China and other satellite offices in Seoul, Korea. He has focused on expanding MET’s scope of business into Photovoltaic, RFID, Energy Star, Alternative Energy, Smart grid and Smart Meter Testing. He worked closely with nationwide utilities and public utility commissions to study testing concerns and monitor problems with AMI deployment. He also successfully built relationships and initiated MoUs with test laboratories worldwide.

Previous to joining IEEE, Ravi also worked as a R&D Engineer at Honeywell and Ericsson’s Blue Ridge Labs. Ravi studied Electrical Engineering, at Arizona State University and Johns Hopkins University. He participates in the ANSI CAPC committee, selected IEEE working groups, NIST’s SGIP Testing and Certification Committee.