Distinguished Experts Panel

 

Panel Chair

Hiroshi Kuriyama (NEC, Japan)
 

 

Hiroshi Kuriyama received B.E and M.E degrees in electric engineering from Waseda University, Japan in 1975 and 1977 respectively. Since joining NEC in 1977, he has been working in software development organizations, where he mainly developed network management systems and related software, such as UI and communication tools. He was a visiting researcher for software development technologies at University of Maryland, USA from 1983 to 1984. He was also assigned to Director of Software Development Department, NEC America in USA from 1992 to 2000. He is currently a senior manager of Systems Integration and Software Development Group Planning Division, NEC and engaged in planning software development processes. He is a chair of IEICE Technical Committee on Telecommunication Management in Japan.

 

Panelists

Byung-Deok Chung (KT, Korea)
 













 

Dr. Byung-Deok Chung is the managing director of Next Generation Network Research Department in KT Network Technology Laboratory. He is currently in charge of researching and developing the operations and management systems for transmission networks, Broadband Convergence Networks (BCN), Wibro networks, customer networks and home networks. As well, he is in charge of developing platforms for context aware and wibro-RFID over Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN). Since he joined KT in 1987, He has been involved in leading projects on development of large-scale Operations Support System(OSS) and solving many network and service operations issues with realization of optimal processes and support systems. Especially From 2003 to 2006, as the director of Development Project Management Division, he participated in the development project of NeOSS(New Operations Support System) to elevate customer satisfaction getting improvement of telecommunications operations process for business agility toward u-Society. With NeOSS, KT was selected for the TM Forum Excellence Award titled “Best Practices Award Service Provider” in 2007. His research interests include Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Information Technology Service Library and Information Technology Service Management (ITIL/ITSM), and network/services operations & management.

 

Satoshi Hasegawa (Cyber Creative Institute Co., Ltd, Japan)
 


Mr. Satoshi Hasegawa received MS degree from Tokyo Univ. in 1976. He had been engaged in the research on network manegement and control area for more than 20 years in NEC Research Labs. His major research includes spread-spectrum communication systems, SONET self-healing networks, mobile ad-hoc network with delay tolerant feature. Currently, he is a technical consultant with Cyber Creation Institute in the area of Information and Communication Technology. He was a visiting researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois in 1984 and 1985, and a reserch member at Bell Communications Research in 1987 and 1988. He has served as a technical program chair of NOMS'96 and APNOMS 2000.

 

 

G. S. Kuo (National Chengchi Univ., Chinese Taipei)
 

 

Geng-Sheng (G.S.) Kuo (gskuo@ieee.org) worked with R&D laboratories of the communications industry in the United States, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories. From August 1, 2000, he joined National Chengchi University, Taipei, Chinese Taipei as a professor. Since 2001, he has been invited as Chair Professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in Beijing, China. His current research interests include mobile communications, wireless communications, optical networks and IP-networks. From 1999 – 2001, he was Chair of Communications Switching & Routing Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society. From 2001 – 2002, he was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine, whose impact factor in 2002 is 3.165. Currently, he is Area Editor for Networks Architecture of IEEE Transactions on Communications, Editor and ComSoc Representative to IEEE Internet Computing, Editor of European Transactions on Telecommunications, etc. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of English-version China Communications, sponsored by China Institute of Communications and Information Industry Ministry of China. Furthermore, he was Co-Vice Director of Asia Pacific Board of ComSoc from 2004 to 2005, a member of Award Committee for ComSoc from 2003 to 2005, a member of New Technology Direction Committee (NTDC) for IEEE Technical Activity Board (TAB), and a member of ComSoc Certification Research Advisory Board. And, he was a member of Advisory Committee for Euro-NGI (Next-Generation Internet) Project. In addition, he has published over 150 technical papers in the refereed international journals and conferences.

 

Christian Jacquenet (France Telecom, France)
 




















 

Christian JACQUENET graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille. In 1989, he joined the national directorate of France Telecom where he was in charge of the specification and of the technical support related to the deployment of the first internetworking service offerings of France Telecom. In 1993, he joined the research labs of France Telecom (FTR&D) and, from 1993 to 1997, he has been working as an R&D engineer involved in the specification, the development and the evaluation of ATM-based internetworking service offerings. From 1997 to 2002, he's been the head of an R&D team which was in charge of the conception, the specification, the development and the validation of new IP service offerings, including IP multicast networks, and dynamic provisioning techniques. From 2002 to 2005, he's been the head of the "IP services and architectures" team within the Long Distance Networks directorate of France Telecom, where he's involved in the specification and the development of France Telecom's IP network design strategies.

Christian JACQUENET is now the Director of Standards for France Telecom R&D, he chairs the board of the Home Gateway Initiative (www.homegatewayinitiative.org), and he's also a member of the IPsphere Forum's board of directors (www.ipsphereforum.org). He is currently involved in IPTV service standardization activities through his vice-chairmanship within the IPTV Focus Group that was created by ITU-T. He also chairs the coordination group for IP standardization within France Telecom, and he authored and co-authored several Internet drafts and RFC in the field of dynamic routing protocols and provisioning techniques, as well as several papers in the field of (multicast) traffic engineering and automated production of services.

 

Doug Zuckerman (Telcordia, USA)
 


















 

Douglas N. Zuckerman received his B.S., M.S. and Eng.Sc.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1969, 1971 and 1976, and is an IEEE Fellow. His over 37 years of experience, mainly at Bell Labs and Telcordia Technologies, span the operations, management and engineering of emerging networks and services. He is currently the IEEE Communications Society’s President-Elect. His technical career included long-haul millimeter waveguide studies (before fiber), satellite systems engineering, maintenance engineering for the world’s first digital transmission networks, business services operations planning, and most recently IP-centric optical network interoperability. He was an early contributor to TMN standards and currently chairs the Optical Internetworking Forum’s OAM&P Working Group.

For over 22 years, Doug's leadership across ComSoc's technical committees, conferences, publications, chapters and Society governance has maintained focus on member interests worldwide, especially making relevant technical information widely and quickly available on line and in conferences, and encouraging more member interaction in the technical committees. He co-founded technical committees on Network Operations & Management and Enterprise Networking, as well as the IEEE Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS). His sustained contributions were recognized through the Salah Aidarous Memorial Award, the Society's Donald McLellan Meritorious Service Award, its Conference Achievement Award and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.