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Panel Chair : |
| Hiroshi Kuriyama (APNOMS2007 General chair)
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David Strand (Lucent Technologies, USA)
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Nobuo Fujii (NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, Japan)
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Donghoun Shin (KT, Korea)
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Dave Milham (BT, UK)
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Geng-Sheng (G.S.) Kuo’s current research interests include mobile communications, wireless communications, and optical networks. From 1999–2001, he was Chair of IEEE ComSoc Communications Switching & Routing Technical Committee. From 2001–2002, he was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. Currently, he is Area Editor for Networks Architecture of IEEE Transactions on Communications, Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Editor and Comsoc Representative to IEEE Internet Computing, Editor of Computer Networks, Regional Editor for Asia of European Transactions on Telecommunications, Editor of Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing, and Editor of Wireless Personal Communications. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of English-version China Communications, sponsored by China Institute of Communications and Information Industry Ministry of China, and Editor-in-Chief of English-version The Journal of China University of Posts and Telecommunications, sponsored by six universities on communications engineering in China. Furthermore, he was the IEEE Communications Society Representative to IEEE NanoTechnology Council from 2002 to 2003, Co-Vice Director of Asia Pacific Board of IEEE Communications Society from 2004 to 2005, a member of Award Committee for IEEE Communications Society from 2003 to 2005. He was a member of New Technology Direction Committee for IEEE Technical Activity Board from 2002 to 2005, and is a member of ComSoc Certification Research Advisory Board. In addition, he has been the chair or vice-chair of TPC for many IEEE international conferences, symposia and workshops (e.g., ICC 2000, Globecom 2002 and IPOM 2004). He has published over 150 technical papers in the refereed international journals and conferences.
David P. Strand is a consulting member of technical staff in the Convergence Solutions division of Lucent Technologies in Phoenix, Arizona, where he is a member of the Chief Technology Office. Mr. Strand holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University. He has over twenty-eight years experience in architecture, development, and systems engineering for telecommunications products, including switching, advanced intelligent network, next-generation networks, and network management for a variety of telecommunications domains. One of his current responsibilities is the development of network element management strategies and architectures for next-generation products within the Convergent Core business group. He has authored several papers, and has appeared as a speaker and a member of the organizing committee for a number of industry conferences and forums.
He received the B.E. and M.E degrees in applied physics from Osaka University, Suita, Japan in 1977 and 1979, respectively. In 1979, he joined the Electrical Communication Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (now NTT), Yokosuka, Japan. Since then, he has been working on network management and operations technologies R&D. Subjects to management are, digital cross-connect systems, transport networks, multipoint video conferencing services and home networks and services. Now he is working for NTT Advanced Technology Corporation and managing a business unit of developing various operation systems. He is a member of IEEE and IEICE of Japan, a chairman of TTC Technical Assembly and a vice-chairman of ITU-T SG4.
Donghoun Shin received his BS in electrical and electronic engineering from Yonsei University of Korea and his MS in electrical engineering from University of Texas at Austin of USA, in 1980 and 1983, respectively. In 1985 he joined KT, where he worked on the Development of Directory Assistant System and Automatic Changed Telephone number Announcement System. From 1995 to 1999, he was a director of development for VMS and SMS of PCS (Personal Communication Services) in KT wireless research lab. From 2000 to 2003, he was a leader of wireless application service team in the multimedia research lab. From 2005, he has been in charge of the development of WiBro and BCN network management system for KT new integrated Operations Support System (NeOSS). His research interests include FMC (Fixed & Mobile Convergence) and IMS (IP Multimedia Service) in the inter-domain and heterogeneous networks.
Dave Milham is a graduate of Electrical Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology and in telecommunications from Essex University. He is a Chartered member of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (formerly IEE). He holds a TeleManagement Forum Fellowships in recognition of his contribution to the TMF over the last decade. He works within BT's 21C Converged Services Programme on OSS Architecture and Innovation in the BT Group CTO Office. He is responsible for the development BT's internal OSS architecture and strategy together with the co-ordination of BT's contributions to the OSS activities of the TeleManagement Forum, ITU-T, ETSI, EURESCOM, and the IETF. He also represents BT on a number of UK industry regulatory committees concerned with OSS and B2B interconnect. He provides consultancy to BT Telconsult and BT Global Services customers on OSS architecture, design, standards and strategy. He is an active contributor to the TMF programmes being a member of the TMF Service Provider Leadership Council, the TMF Next Generation Network management programme and is a Member of the TMF Technical Programme Committee.