Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Distinguished Industry Speakers 1 (DIS-01): Next Generation Internet
Time: 16:00-17:45
Room: Hilton, Kona 4
Moderator: Latif Ladid, Founder & President, IPv6 Forum
Panelists:
Yanick Pouffary, Chief Technologist, Hewlett Packar Enterprise, France
Hiroshi Esaki, Trustee, Internet Society, Japan
Richard Kuhn, Computer Scientist, NIST, USA
Ari Pouttu, Research Manager, University of Oulu, Finland
Thursday, 12 December 2019
Distinguished Industry Speakers 2 (DIS-02): Next Generation Wireless
Time: 16:00-17:45
Room: Hilton, Kona 4
Moderator: Latif Ladid, Founder & President, IPv6 Forum
Panelists:
Chih-lin I, Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies, China Mobile, China
Peiying Zhu, Senior Director, Wireless Technology Lab, Huawei Technologies, Canada
Udayan Mukherjee, Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation, USA
Akbar Rahman, Senior Principal Engineer, InterDigital, Canada
Distinguished Speaker Program Moderator
Latif Ladid
Founder & President, IPv6 Forum
- Founder & President, IPv6 Forum
- Member of 3GPP PCG Board
- IEEE 5G Future Networks Initiative Steering Committee Member
- IEEE IoT Initiative Steering Committee Member
- Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society - ISOC
- IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logos Program Board
- World Summit Award Board Member
- Vice-Chair, ETSI IPv6 Industry Specification Group
- Member of Future Internet Forum EU Member States (representing Luxembourg)
- IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award, 2002
- IPv6 Life Time Achievement Award, 2016
- Research Fellow @ University of Luxembourg (since 2006)
Distinguished Industry Speakers
The following Distinguished Industry speakers have been confirmed for IEEE GLOBECOM 2019. The title and abstract of their talks will be posted closer to the conference.
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Distinguished Industry Speakers 1 (DIS-01): Next Generation Internet
Time: 16:00-17:45
Room: Hilton, TBD
Yanick Pouffary
Chief Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, France
Yanick Pouffary is a HPE Distinguished Technologist and serves as Chief Technologist for IoT at HPE Pointnext Services Intelligent Edge, focusing on advisory, digital transformation, innovation and emerging trends.
Yanick is a strategic advisor to governments, enterprises and service providers when it comes to digital transformation technologies such as IoT, IPv6, software defined networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In her role as Chief Technologist, Yanick develops IoT, network strategic vision and technology services. She advises and helps customers to successfully adapt and take advantage of the ever changing world of Internet technologies.
Yanick is a founding member of the IPv6 Forum, an IPv6 Forum Fellow, and general chairperson for the IPv6 pogo programs (Ready & Enabled & Education). She is ETSI IP6 Industry Group vice-chairperson and one of the distinguished recipients of the IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award for her technology contributions to support the adoption and deployment of IPv6.
Yanick has more than three decades of experience in the industry and extensive knowledge in the development of networking products and services. She holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Nice, France. Yanick is based in Nice, France.
Hiroshi Esaki
Trustee, Internet Society, Japan
Dr. Hiroshi Esaki received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively. And, he received Ph.D from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1998.
In 1987, he joined Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation. From 1990 to 1991, he has been at Applied Research Laboratory of Bellcore Inc., New Jersey (USA), as a residential researcher. From 1994 to 1996, he has been at CTR (Center for Telecommunication Research) of Columbia University in New York (USA). During his staying at Columbia University, he has proposed the CSR architecture, that is the origin of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), to the IETF and to the ATM Forum. From 1996 to 1998, he has conducted the CSR project in Toshiba, as a chief architect.
Since 1997, he has involved in the IPv6 research and development at the WIDE project. He is a co-founder of series of IPv6 special project in the WIDE project, i.e.KAME project ; IPv6 protocol stack for BSD UNIX, TAHI project ; IPv6 test and evaluation specification and tools, USAGI project ; IPv6 protocol stack for Linux.
Regarding the research/development/deployment for the IPv6, he has been very tightly and closely working with Prof. Jun Murai, who has been a political and technical advisor for the Japanese cabinet for more than 15 years. He is an executive director of IPv6 promotion council, which is cross ministry and cross industry council to promote the IPv6 technology. As the activities of IPv6 promotion council, he has established the following working groups, that are aiming to explore and to deploy the IPv6 as the professional and business operation.
Since 2003, he has started the introduction of TCP/IP and Internet Framework into the facility system, which is now identified as SmartGrid, Smart Building, Smart Campus or Smart City. He successfully standardized the TCP/IP based architectural framework as IEEE1888 in IEEE, and proposing to NIST SGIP CoS (Catalogue of Standard) in US and to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC6.
Ari Pouttu
Research Manager, University of Oulu, Finland
Prof. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in fields such as synchronization, interference suppression, coding, and modulation designs in spread spectrum and multicarrier systems. The projects under his command have resulted waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications. He has also been involved with architecture design for Finnish Software Radio including adaptive antennas and related algorithms. Prof. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in fields such as synchronization, interference suppression, coding, and modulation designs in spread spectrum and multicarrier systems. The projects under his command have resulted waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications. He has also been involved with architecture design for Finnish Software Radio including adaptive antennas and related algorithms.
He has published more than 50 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications and he holds two patents. He was the Director of Centre for Wireless Communications in the University of Oulu from 2006 to 2012. Currently he is heading as a professor a research group targeting dependable wireless solutions including solutions for 5G. He is the PI of 5GTN experimental research and is acting as collaborative projects leader in national 6Genesis flagship targeting 6G solutions.
Richard Kuhn
Computer Scientist, NIST, USA
Rick Kuhn is a computer scientist in the Computer Security Division at NIST, and is an IEEE Fellow. He has authored three books and more than 150 conference or journal publications on information security, empirical studies of software failure, and software assurance. He co-developed the role based access control model (RBAC) used throughout industry and led the effort that established RBAC as an ANSI standard. Previously he served as Program Manager for the Committee on Applications and Technology of the President's Information Infrastructure Task Force and as manager of the Software Quality Group at NIST. Before joining NIST in 1984, he worked as a software developer with NCR Corporation and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He received an MS in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park, and an MBA from William & Mary.
Thursday, 12 December 2019
Distinguished Industry Speakers 2 (DIS-02): Next Generation Wireless
Time: 16:00-17:45
Room: Hilton, TBD
Chih-Lin I
Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies, China Mobile, China
Dr. Chih-Lin I received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been working at multiple world-class companies and research institutes leading the R&D, including AT&T Bell Labs; Director of AT&T HQ, Director of ITRI Taiwan, and VPGD of ASTRI Hong Kong. She received the IEEE Trans. COM Stephen Rice Best Paper Award, the IEEE ComMag Fred W. Ellersick Prize Best Paper Award, and has won the 2015 Industrial Innovation Award of IEEE Communication Society for Leadership and Innovation in Next-Generation Cellular Wireless Networks.
In 2011, she joined China Mobile as its Chief Scientist of wireless technologies, established the Green Communications Research Center, and launched the 5G Key Technologies R&D. She is spearheading major initiatives including 5G, C-RAN, high energy efficiency system architectures, technologies and devices, green energy, and wireless big data for network embedded intelligence. She has led the launch of Wireless AI Alliance (WAIA) and O-RAN (Open RAN) Alliance. She was an Area Editor of IEEE/ACM Trans. NET, an elected Board Member of IEEE ComSoc, Chair of the ComSoc Meetings and Conferences Board, and Founding Chair of the IEEE WCNC Steering Committee.
She was a Professor at NCTU, an Adjunct Professor at NTU, and an Adjunct Professor at BUPT. She is the Chair of FuTURE 5G SIG, the Chair of WAIA Executive Committee, the Chair of O-RAN TSC, an Executive Board Member of GreenTouch, a Network Operator Council Founding Member of ETSI NFV, a Steering Board Member and Vice Chair of WWRF, a Steering Committee member and the Publication Chair of IEEE 5G Initiative, a member of IEEE ComSoc SDB, SPC, and CSCN-SC, and a Scientific Advisory Board Member of Singapore NRF. Her current research interests center around “From Green & Soft to Open & Smart”.
Peiying Zhu
Senior Director, Wireless Technology Lab, Huawei Technologies, Canada
Huawei Fellow and IEEE Fellow
Peiying Zhu is a Huawei Fellow and IEEE Fellow. She is currently leading 5G wireless system research in Huawei. The focus of her research is advanced wireless access technologies with more than 150 granted patents. She has been regularly giving talks and panel discussions on 5G vision and enabling technologies. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Peiying was a Nortel Fellow and Director of Advanced Wireless Access Technology in the Nortel Wireless Technology Lab. She led the team and pioneered research and prototyping on MIMO-OFDM and Multi-hop relay. Many of these technologies developed by the team have been adopted into LTE standards and 4G products. Peiying Zhu received the Master of Science degree and Doctorate Degree from Southeast University and Concordia University in 1985 and 1993, respectively.
Udayan Mukherjee
Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation, USA
Udayan Mukherjee is an Intel Fellow in the Network Platforms Group and chief technologist for network infrastructure at Intel Corporation. He leads technology and product development related to wireless radio access and core networks, including Cloud-RAN, virtual RAN, base stations based on the LTE and LTE-Advanced standards, and mobile edge platforms, as well as gateways and packet core solutions. Mukherjee is also responsible for establishing new growth areas for Intel in the telecommunications market segment, a role that includes developing technologies and optimizations for telecom platforms designed for software-based networking and network function virtualization, developing wireless-specific intellectual property, and leading Intel’s 5G wireless network technology development. Mukherjee’s research interests include mobile computing and communication platforms; heterogeneous networks; next-generation air interface technologies; network virtualization; and mobile edge services and applications. A specialist in communications and computer system design and development, Mukherjee joined Intel in 2000. Before assuming his current role, he led AdvancedTCA-based telecom server development as principal engineer in Intel’s Modular Communications Platform Group. He also led technology development in areas such as memory power management and chassis-, shelf- and rack-based manageability software, and he spearheaded Intel’s efforts to deliver the industry’s first draft of a carrier-grade telecom Linux specification.
Before joining Intel, Mukherjee spent more than a decade leading engineering teams at various technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard Co. and First Data Corp. A three-time recipient of the Intel Achievement Award, Mukherjee was appointed an Intel Fellow in 2016. He has been granted 10 U.S. patents, with additional patents pending, and is the author or co-author of multiple papers on topics related to wireless and telecom technologies. Mukherjee holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur in India, and earned dual master’s degrees in systems science and industrial engineering from Louisiana State University.
Akbar Rahman
Senior Principal Engineer, InterDigital, Canada
Akbar Rahman is Senior Principal Engineer at InterDigital a mobile technology research and development company. Over the last 25+ years, he has participated in the research, development and standardization of communication protocols and network architecture for mobile technologies starting from 2G, to 3G/4G, and now focusing on 5G and beyond 5G (B5G). He has been giving talks and participating in panel discussions on different aspects of mobile protocols and architecture over the different generations of mobile technology evolution. He is an active participant at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body and the co-author of multiple RFCs. He has also previously participated in the ETSI, TIA and 3GPP standards bodies. He has 85 granted patents in the area of mobile technology, and also published multiple conference and journal papers. Prior to joining InterDigital in 2001, Akbar was an Independent Contributor for Nortel Networks, and a Systems Engineer for Ericsson. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1990.
