GLOBECOM 2019 General Chair's Award
The GLOBECOM 2019 General Chair's Award is presented to an individual or team in industry in recognition of an exemplar service to humanity within the vicinity of the conference.
The GLOBECOM 2019 General Chair’s Award will be presented to John Komeiji and his team for the leadership in bringing Broadband access to under-served rural areas in Hawaii, fueling economic development, enabling residents to purchase goods that are not available locally and broadening business, healthcare and educational opportunities. Through John Komeiji’s leadership as President and General Manager, Hawaiian Telcom successfully won $18.2M in a 2018 Federal auction to enable rural areas in Hawaii with 1 Gb/s broadband service. Using optical fiber and other technologies, Hawaiian Telcom is the only local provider actively expanding broadband to underserved rural areas in Hawaii. Service will be provided to nearly 4,000 homes and businesses in rural Hawaii.
The GLOBECOM 2019 General Chair’s Award will be presented on 10 December 2019 at the beautiful Hilton Waikoloa Village resort on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Awardee:
John Komeiji, President and General Manager, Hawaiian Telcom
John Komeiji was named President and General Manager in July 2018, responsible for the overall leadership and management of Hawaiian Telcom’s operations and corporate staff.
Mr. Komeiji previously served as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel, responsible for the company’s day-to-day business operations. His Administrative Services organization included the External Affairs, Government Affairs, Human Resources, Information Technology Systems & Order Management Systems, Legal, Project Management & Delivery, and Support Services teams. He joined the company in July 2008.
Prior to joining Hawaiian Telcom, Mr. Komeiji served as senior partner at Watanabe Ing & Komeiji LLP. His practice focused on the litigation of complex commercial, personal injury and professional liability matters.
Mr. Komeiji earned a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and a Juris Doctorate from Hastings College of Law.
Under Mr. Komeiji’s leadership, Hawaiian Telcom was honored as the 2019 Company Winner of Pacific Business News’ Titans of Technology Award. In 2018, the Hawaii Venture Capitalist Association honored Mr. Komeiji with the Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year award. Mr. Komeiji was presented the University of Hawaii Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011. A former Adjunct Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, Mr. Komeiji taught Pretrial Litigation and received the Co-Adjunct Professor of the Year Award in 2002.
Mr. Komeiji is a past president of the Hawaii State Bar Association and has served on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Lawyer Competence. A member of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates, he is also a Bencher and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Inns of Court, Aloha Chapter.
Mr. Komeiji serves on numerous non-profit boards including as Board Vice Chair for Hawaii Medical Service Association, and as President of The 200 Club. In the past, he served as Board Chair for the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific and for the Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii.
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Best Paper Awards
The IEEE Globecom 2019 Best Paper Award Ceremony will be held in "Monarchy Ballroom" of Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, 10:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, 12 December 2019.
AHSN Symposium
Paper Title: iLoc: A Low-Cost Low-Power Outdoor Localization System for Internet of Things
Authors: Kang Hu, Yuhao Chen, Shibo He, Zhiguo Shi, Chen Jiming, and Zhen Tao
CISS Symposium
Paper Title: WiPIN: Operation-free Passive Person Identification Using Wi-Fi Signals
Authors: Fei Wang, Jinsong Han, Feng Lin, and Kui Ren
CQRM Symposium
Paper Title: The Impact of Human Mobility on Edge Data Center Deployment in Urban Environments
Authors: Piergiorgio Vitello, Andrea Capponi, Claudio Fiandrino, Guido Cantelmo, and Dzmitry Kliazovich
CREAN Symposium
Paper Title: Learning-Aided Realtime Performance Optimisation of Cognitive UAV-Assisted Disaster Communication
Authors: Trung Q. Duong, Long D. Nguyen, Hoang D. Tuan, and Lajos Hanzo
CSSMA Symposium
Paper Title: RFID-based Driving Fatigue Detection
Authors: Chao Yang, Xuyu Wang, and Shiwen Mao.
CT Symposium
Paper Title: The Penalty in Scaling Exponent for Polar Codes is Analytically Approximated by the Golden Ratio
Author: Ori Shental
GCSN Symposium
Paper Title: Closed-Form Beamforming Aided Joint Optimization for Spectrum- and Energy-efficient UAV-BS Networks
Authors: Ke Li, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, and Fu-Chun Zheng
MWN Symposium
Paper Title: MACH: Movement Aware CoMP Handover in Heterogeneous Ultra-Dense Networks
Authors: Wen Sun, Lu Wang, Jiajia Liu, Nei Kato, and Yanning Zhang
NGNI Symposium
Paper Title: A Novel Cloudlet-Dwell-Time Estimation Method for Assisting Vehicular Edge Computing Applications
Authors: Peng Sun, Azzedine Boukerche, and Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho
ONS Symposium
Paper Title: Slice-Aware Service Restoration with Recovery Trucks for Optical Metro-Access Networks
Authors: Sifat Ferdousi, Massimo Tornatore, Sugang Xu, Yoshinari Awaji, and Biswanath Mukherjee
SPC Symposium
Paper Title: Simultaneous Multiuser Beam Training using Adaptive Hierarchical Codebook for mmWave Massive MIMO
Authors: Kangjian Chen, Chenhao Qi, Octavia Dobre, and Geoffrey Li
WC Symposium
Paper Title: Intelligent Beam Training for Millimeter-Wave Communications via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Jianjun Zhang, Yongming Huang, Jiaheng Wang, and Xiaohu You
Paper Title: Enabling Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces
Authors: Xianghao Yu,Dongfang Xu, and Robert Schober
IoT SAC Track
Paper Title: SoftSense: Collaborative Surface-based Object Sensing and Tracking Using Networked Coils
Authors: Kai Li, Ufuk Muncuk, M. Yousof Naderi, and Kaushik Chowdhury
Other SAC Tracks
Paper Title: DSIC: Deep Learning based Self-Interference Cancellation for In-Band Full Duplex Wireless
Authors: Hanqing Guo, Shaoen Wu, Wang Honggang, and Mahmoud Daneshmand
