Distinguished Expert Panel


DEP Session: Fri., Sept. 23, 2011, 15:40 - 17:45, Room 401

Panel Chair
Fei-Pei Lai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

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Feipei Lai received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and 1987, respectively.
He is a professor in the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. He was a vice superintendent of National Taiwan University Hospital. He was the chairman of Taiwan Network Information Center. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. He was also a guest Professor at University of Dortmund, Germany and a visiting senior computer system engineer in the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests are SOC low power computing, Medical Information System.
Prof. Lai is one of the founders of the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery and serve as the President during 2009/7-2011/7. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Tau Phi, Chinese Institute of Engineers, Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers. Prof. Lai was the chairman of Taiwan Internet Content Rating Foundation. He received the Taiwan Fuji Xerox Research award in 1991, K-T Li’s Breakthrough award in 2008, IBM faculty Award, NTU Distinguished Service Award in 2009 and Taiwan 2010 IT Distinguished Professionals.

 
Panelist
Dr. Rong-Syh Lin (CHT, Taiwan)
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Dr. Rong-Syh Lin is currently the Deputy Senior Managing Director of Network Department of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd (CHT). His career spans over twenty years in technology innovation and operations management in telecommunication sphere. His current interests are the evolution of network architecture, and BSS/OSS flexibility and agility to accelerate new service growth.
In 1989, he joined Telecommunication Labs (TL) of CHT as a Researcher. He had focused on efficient service/network operations and QoS/QoE innovation, and led the development of several Integrated Management Systems for broadband services of CHT, such as xDSL/FTTx, VPN, IPTV, and new ICT services. Since 2006, he was appointed as the program manager of CHT/TL NGOSS Evolution, which successfully transformed and consolidated dozens of BSS/OSSs based on the TMF NGOSS frameworks. In 2010, he was promoted to be the Deputy Senior Managing Director of the Network Department of CHT Headquarter.
Dr. Lin holds a Doctor degree of Computer Science in National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

 
Panelists
Dr. Atsushi Takahara (NTT, Japan)
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Atsushi Takahara received a doctor of engineering degree in computer science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1988, he joind NTT. He has worked in the research of LSI design CAD system, Programmable device design, Programmable Network node architecture and flow based traffic control.
From 2003 to 2008, he worked as the director of service and operation of visual communication service in NTT BizLink. Since 2008, he has been the executive manager of Media Innovation Laboratory, NTT Network Innovation Laboratoires.
Since 2011, he is the executive director of NTT Network Innovation Laboratories. His research interests are visual communication technology, new generation network architecture, and formal methods for system design.

 
Panelists
Dr. Tae-Sang Choi (ETRI, Korea)
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His presentation theme is "Standardization & Reserach View for Managing Clouds and Smart Networks Services and Resources".
Taesang Choi received his MS (1990) and Ph.D (1995) degrees in Computer Science and Telecommunications in Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City. He joined ETRI in 1996 and has worked in R&D of High-quality Multimedia System, MPLS Traffic Engineering and Management, High-speed Traffic Measurement and Analysis, BcN (Broadband Convergence Network) Control and Management.
His current main research interest is Future Internet management architecture. He has also actively contributed in various SDOs such as DAVIC, IETF, ITU-T, and etc. He is currently acting as a Team leader of Future Internet Architecture team in ETRI, ITU-T SG13 Question 4 Rapporteur, ETRI Standardization Fellow, and International IT Standardization Expert representing Republic of Korea.

 
Panelists
Mr. Joel J. Fleck (HP, USA)
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Joel J. Fleck II (joel.fleck@hp.com) is Chief Architect in the HP Software CTO organization and also serves as Head of Standards for HP Software. His primary research focus is on architectures for adaptive management of distributed systems and policy based management.
 Recent research activities have involved the definition of a distributed adaptive management architecture for SOA and Cloud environments using a model-driven approach starting with business vocabularies and rules, the use of semantic reasoning across ontologies to verify feasibility of inter-domain relationships, and the development of Traceability Maps, a tool which graphically represents the relationships between software artifacts throughout the software lifecycle.
Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, he spent 16 years at Bell Laboratories and Bell Communications Research researching distributed management systems, multimedia networks and automated test systems, and at Stochos, Inc. as a software architect and designer.
Joel is a frequent speaker at conferences and has published numerous papers on the subject of distributed architectures, model-driven architectures and management of distributed architectures. Joel serves on the Board of Directors and in lead executive positions for a number of international standards bodies. He also serves as Hewlett-Packard’s principal representative to the Federated Autonomic Management of End-to-end Communications (FAME) project sponsored by the Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) which partners leading Irish Universities with key industrial partners.
Joel graduated from the University of Michigan with a MS in Industrial and Operations Engineering and the University of Vermont with a BS in Computer Science. He is Distinguished Fellow of the TeleManagement Forum.

 
Panelists
Dr. Henry Chang (IBM, USA)
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Dr. Henry Chang (hychang@us.ibm.com) is the director of Intelligent Living Services research collaboratory in Taiwan, a multi-year effort to enable holistic personalized wellness care for service modeling and innovation on shared services smart cloud. The collaboratory is conducting pilots on healthy family management, wellness prescription compliance, and social analytics for health promotion.
He is a senior technical staff member and a research manager in Healthcare transformation department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He is the research innovation lead of the IBM Websphere BPM suits and IBM internal supply chain visibility. His recent research interests include Wellness transformation for smarter healthcare, business event processing, continuous process improvement, and event-based business collaboration. He received an IBM Innovation Award for his work on model-based B2B collaboration solutions.
He specializes in model-driven analysis and solution generation for dynamic business systems. He has conducted research in the areas of business process visibility with a “sense and respond” system for internal IBM integrated supply chain. His industrial experiences include dynamic web service hub for Taiwan design collaboration among chip designers, business process analytics study for IBM BTO, and business performance monitoring for Amex strategic outsourcing account.
He has developed event-driven platforms to support loosely coupled design processes across enterprises for virtual team integration and design-time e-sourcing. Henry’s main industrial experiences include managing the IBM B2B fulfillment extranet with 300 business customers, IBM semiconductor supply chain inventory monitoring system, and electronics component supply and demand integration and optimization Before joining IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, he received Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from U. Wisconsin-Madison at 1987 and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University. He is a long time member of ACM and IEEE.