Speakers

Dr. Andreas Mueller is Bosch’s Chief Expert for Communication Technologies for the IoT and leading the Bosch 6G program. In addition to that, he has been coordinating and driving the Industrial 5G activities of Bosch over the past couple of years.

Mr Ari Kynäslahti has a long career working at Nokia. He joined Nokia in the beginning of 1995. In Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks he has worked in many manager positions, for example as Head of Mobile Networks Product Management, Head of LTE Product Management, Head of Global Radio Sales and Head of WCDMA Product Management as well as multiple positions in R&D and Business Development.

Prof. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in various domains of ICT development. The projects under his command have resulted in 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.

Colleen Josephson is a Senior Research Scientist in the Office of the CTO at VMware.

Devaki Chandramouli is a Bell Labs Fellow and Head of North American Standardization at Nokia. She serves as a Steering Group Co-chair in Next G Alliance. She serves as the rapporteur and lead for 5G System Architecture specification, Private Network, Industrial 5G in 3GPP SA2, received 3GPP Excellence award in 2021.

Douglas Castor is Senior Director of Future Wireless Research and Innovation at InterDigital’s Philadelphia area office, where he leads the incubation and development of emerging technologies for wireless systems. Since joining InterDigital in 2000, he has led teams in both product development and research innovations for 3G through 6G cellular and IEEE Wi-Fi technologies. Key topics currently under Doug’s leadership include extending cellular to sub-THz frequencies, enhancing performance throug

Dr. Simone Redana is Head of Architecture, Security and Automation Standards & Research at Nokia Standards, Strategy & Technology with focus on novel e2e architecture, security and network automation solutions for the 5G era and preparation for 6G as well as business acceleration for verticals. He is responsible for Research and Standardization in Nokia on RAN, CORE & System Architecture, Security, Network & Service Automation and creating Nokia IP portfolio in those areas.

Dr. Ulrich Dropmann heads the external standardization activities for Nokia. He is responsible for global and regional standardization including radio spectrum aspects. Ulrich is board member of the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA). He also is a VP and Executive Committee member of the Global Mobile Supplier Association (GSA). Since April 2022, he serves in addition as a board member to the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN-GF)

Emily Chung is a Principal Wireless Architect Lead in the Mixed Reality Architecture Team at Microsoft Corporation. Emily heads the Wireless Architecture Team for Mixed Reality/Augmented Reality devices. Emily works with a talented team to prototype and drive for innovation in wireless systems for MR/AR use cases. Prior to this role, Emily held roles in Silicon and Systems Architecture at Microsoft, Intel, and Microchip.

Dr. Gavin Horn is with the Wireless R&D group at Qualcomm Technologies. Since 2014, he has been leading the 5G systems architecture design, evaluation, and standardization including network architecture, security, slicing, edge, cloud-native, virtualization, and radio interface protocols.

Gerhard received his BS in Physics from the US Naval Academy in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia in 2003. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he served on active duty in the US Navy for 5 years on the USS Chandler and the USS John A. Moore.

Grace Koh is Head of Office and Vice President, Government Affairs, North America, Nokia. Before coming to Nokia, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to the International Telecommunication Union’s World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, where she led the 125-member delegation in negotiating successful outcomes for U.S. spectrum and satellite policy.

Dr. Harish Viswanathan is Head of Radio Systems Research Group in Nokia Bell Labs. He received the B. Tech. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Hemanth Sampath is the Sr. Director of engineering and head of 5G R&D for emerging applications at Qualcomm, including XR/metaverse, cloud gaming and private networks.

Hua Wang is a full professor and chair of electronics at Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich).

Sr. Vice President – Technology & Network Services, Network Chief Technology Officer, AT&T Services, Inc.

Ivan Seskar is the Chief Technologist at WINLAB, Rutgers University responsible for experimental systems and prototyping projects. He is currently the program director for the COSMOS project responsible for the New York City NSF PAWR deployment, the PI for the NSF GENI Wireless project, which resulted in campus deployments of LTE/WiMAX base stations at several US universities, and the PI for the NSF CloudLab deployment at Rutgers.

Mr. Martin was born in the Canary Islands (Spain) and studied economics before working on Information Management Systems for companies such as Ely Lilly and BP. In 1993 moved to the US and started a successful career as a business management consultant, helping U.S.-based companies transition from a centralized data processing model to a distributed data transmission system with a heavy emphasis on ERP and enterprise communications.

Jeffrey Andrews (S’98, M’02, SM’06, F’13) received the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the Truchard Family Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where he is Director of the 6G@UT research center.

Joe Madden founded Mobile Experts and serves as the lead analyst. Over the past 30 years, Mr. Madden has accurately predicted Digital Predistortion, Remote Radio Heads, Small Cells, 5G Fixed Wireless, and the true size of the IoT market.

Joel Taubenblatt serves as the Acting Bureau Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Taubenblatt has held several leadership positions in the Bureau, including Deputy Bureau Chief, Chief of the Competition and Infrastructure Policy Division, and Chief of the Broadband Division. He graduated from Duke University School of Law and from the University of Pennsylvania, with undergraduate degrees in Economics from the Wharton School and in Engli

John Smee is Senior Vice President of Engineering and Global Head of Wireless Research at Qualcomm. He oversees all 5G/6G and Wi-Fi R&D projects including systems design, standards contributions, and advanced radio, hardware, and software research testbeds and technology trials with industry partners. He joined Qualcomm in 2000, holds over 200 U.S. Patents, and has focused on the innovation and commercial launches of wireless communications across 5G NR, 4G LTE, 3G CDMA, and IEEE 802.11.

Josep M. Jornet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Director of the Ultrabroadband Nanonetworking Laboratory and a faculty member of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the SMART Center at Northeastern University, in Boston, MA.

Ken Perlin, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, directs the Future Reality Lab, and is a participating faculty member at NYU MAGNET. His research interests include future reality, computer graphics and animation, user interfaces and education. He is chief scientist at Parallux and Tactonic Technologies.

Klaus Doppler is a Chief IoT Architect at Nokia Technologies and is closely involved in Nokia’s 6G research.

Leonard Kleinrock is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA.

Mr. Mario Maniewicz was elected Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He took office on 1 January 2019.

Chief, Policy and Rules Division, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC

Michael Ha is the Chief of Policy and Rules Division, Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission. Since joining the Commission in 2010, he has been engaged in various proceedings on spectrum allocations for wireless broadband services, mobile/fixed satellite services, public safety services and unlicensed services.

Michael Marcus was overeducated in electrical engineering at MIT. Prior to working at FCC for almost 25 years, he worked at Bell Labs, served in the U.S. Air Force, and analyzed electronic warfare issues at the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Mikael Höök joined Ericsson in 1994 and has held various positions targeting the research and standardization of 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. He is currently Research Area Director for Radio-research within Ericsson Research and based in Kista, Stockholm.

Monisha Ghosh is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the Notre Dame Wireless Institute. She is also the Policy Outreach Director for SpectrumX, the first NSF Center for Spectrum Innovation and the co-chair of the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council (TAC) Working Group on Advanced Spectrum Sharing.

Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT.

Mr. Naoki Tani has been leading the R&D Innovation Division since June 2020.
He is responsible for the entire R&D activities of NTT DOCOMO, including radio, mobile core, terminals, and services, and also for the creation of a vision of future mobile systems and services.

Nishant is a global leader with broad experience in strategy and technology development and portfolio management, as well as in having significant profit and loss responsibilities. He has been intimately involved in bringing cutting-edge products to market across industry domains and has a deep understanding of the silicon, software and system requirements necessary for innovation.

He is leading 5GX Infra Tech Office of ICT Infra in SK Telecom, while developing E2E network technologies including Handset, Radio Access Network, Core Network, Transport Network, Location, and Location AI. In particular, he has been leading the 5G technology with a successful world’s first 5G NSA commercialization, along with Beyond 5G technology evolution.

With almost 20 years as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Pekka has accrued deep expertise in the telecommunications, technology, energy, machinery, and finance sectors, all of which are central to the transition into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Pramod Viswanath is the Forrest G. Hamrick Professor in Engineering at Princeton University.

Puneet Jain is a Sr. Principal Engineer and Sr. Director of Technical Standards in the Next Generation and Standards (NGS) Group at Intel Corporation.

Raj Singh is the Executive Vice President of Compute Strategy and Business Development at Marvell. In his role, Raj serves as an interface for Marvell’s strategic compute customers and partners and drives key compute and wireless program initiatives for the company. Previously, Raj served as Executive Vice President of Marvell’s Processors Business Group.

As Vice President of Engineering and Network Operations for U.S. Cellular, Robert is responsible for ensuring the superior quality of U.S. Cellular’s high-speed network so that customers have the world’s best wireless experience. Dr. Jakubek also leads Engineering Teams at all UScellular’s network operations centers across the country.

Roger Nichols is an acknowledged subject matter expert in mobile wireless communications design and measurement technologies. He has 37 years of engineering and management experience at Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, and Keysight spanning roles in R&D, marketing, and manufacturing. Having worked on every wireless generation he has been directing Keysight’s 6G program since its inception in 2019.

Satoshi KONISHI joined KDDI in 1993.
From 1995, he was mainly involved in research and development in wireless communication systems such as LEO satellite systems, mesh-type fixed wireless access (FWA) systems, and mobile cellular systems. He led development of base stations for LTE in KDDI while contributing for standardizations in 3GPP, 3GPP2 and ITU-R.

Steve is the Head of Qualitative Capabilities for the Media Development division of Ipsos UK with 19 years’ experience in the research industry.

Mr. Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. He is now Chief Technology Architect in NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport (tsr@nyu.edu) is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University (NYU), and is a professor in the NYU Courant Computer Science Dept. and the NYU School of Medicine. He founded the NYU WIRELESS research center and the wireless research centers at the University of Texas Austin (WNCG) and Virginia Tech (MPRG).

Tim O’Shea is the CTO and Co-Founder at DeepSig Inc and a Research Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech in Arlington, VA.
He is focused on building machine learning and AI-Native wireless baseband processing capabilities to enhance the spectral and energy performance of 5G, 5G-Advanced, and 6G wireless air interfaces, as well as leveraging AI-Driven spectral and channel awareness to optimize multi-user and multi-access next generation wireless systems. Previously he worked with wireless startu

Todd E. Humphreys holds the Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professorship in Engineering in the department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Udayan Mukherjee is the Intel Senior Fellow and Chief Architect of Wireless Network & Products for Intel’s Networking and Edge Group.

Dr. Venkatesh Ramaswamy is Chief Technologist at MITRE Labs in Bedford, Massachusetts where he currently leads technical innovation and R&D activities in 5G/xG technologies.