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Simao Campos, ITU
Sim�o Ferraz de Campos Neto joined the
secretariat of the ITU Standardization
Sector in 2002, and is the Counsellor
for ITU-T Study Group 16 (for
standardization work on multimedia
services, protocols, systems, terminals
and media coding, including
accessibility). He organized several
workshops (e.g. Multimedia in NGN,
Telecoms for Disaster Relief, RFID,
Standardization in E-health; SIIT2005)
and was the editor of the first version
of the ITU-T Security Manual.
Prior to joining ITU in 2002, Mr Campos
worked for 8 years as a scientist in
COMSAT Laboratories performing standards
representation and quality assessment
for digital voice coding systems, and
before that he was a researcher at
Telebras's R&D Center (CPqD).
A Senior Member of the IEEE, Mr Campos
authored several academic papers and
position papers, served in the review
committee of several IEEE-sponsored
conferences, and organized the first
ITU-T Kaleidoscope Conference. |
Gary Fishman, former
TSAG Chairman, USA
Gary Fishman has participated in and
held leadership positions in standards
bodies for over 26 years, including the
Chair of the ITU-T Telecommunication
Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG),
Vice Chair of the ITU Council’s ITU-2000
Working Group on Reform, and a member of
World Standards Cooperation comprising
the top management of ISO, IEC and ITU.
He has presented numerous seminars and
workshops to regional and national
bodies on capacity building for
international standardization. Mr.
Fishman has served on policy bodies of
the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) and he is a founding
member and currently Vice Chairman of
the Board of the US ITU Association
(USITUA).
Mr. Fishman is currently President of
Pearlfisher International, a
telecommunication standardization
consulting company. His previous work
experience with Bell Laboratories, AT&T,
Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent
includes digital transmission systems,
system engineering, optical fiber,
economic studies, communication
satellite services, regulatory tariff
filings, marketing and technical
standardization. His degrees in
Electrical Engineering are from the City
College of NY, Columbia University and
New York University. |
Alex Galis, Vice
Chairman, ITU-T FG FN
Alex Galis is a Visiting Professor at
the University College London (UCL)
www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~agalis. He has
published as editor/coeditor six
research books, and over 150
publications in the field of networks,
services, management and distributed
systems. He has served in several
program committees, organized several
IEEE conferences and workshops. He
served as reviewer for Computer Networks
Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine,
International Journal of Internet
Protocol Technology, IEEE Journal on
Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE
Network Magazine, IBM Systems Journal,
IEEE Journal of Network and Systems
Management. He has served as Principal
Investigator in 3 EU projects and he has
also contributed to other 8 research EU
projects. He is a Vice-Chairman ITU-T
Focus Group on Future Networks. |
Masahito Kawamori,
Coordinator of ITU-T IPTV Global
Standards Initiative
Masahito Kawamori is coordinating the
standardization activities on IPTV at
ITU-T. In addition to developing several
systems in the convergent areas of
mobile, fixed, broadcasting, and
telecommunications, he has been involved
in the standardization activities at
such bodies as TV-Anytime Forum, JIS,
DVB Forum, ARIB, OASIS, OMA, on various
areas including broadcasting, IPTV,
rights management and mobile services. |
Helmut Schink, Vice
Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 15
Head of Standards Wireline, Service
Delivery and Media, responsible for
standardization and regulation. Also
vice-chair of ITU-T SG 15. Previous
engagements include Vice-chair of ITU-T
SG 13. VC of the open IPTV Forum, member
of the board of the IPSphere Forum,
member of the Board of the
Telemanagement Forum, Member of the
board of directors of ICANN, chair of
ETSI project TIPHON on IP Telephony
Over 25 years in business, esp. public
communication networks, holding various
technical and management functions
marketing, like strategic product
planning, business development and
standardization, Corporate management
and in strategic business development,
development of semiconductor processes
for GaAs high speed and low noise
devices and basic research in
micro-analytics
Studied Physics at Technical University
of M�nchen and holds a Doctor degree in
the area of micro-analytics and
semiconductor physics. |
Mostafa Hashem Sherif,
AT&T, USA
Mostafa Hashem Sherif has been with AT&T
in various capacities since 1983. He has
a Ph.D. from the University of
California, Los Angeles and both an
M.Sc. and a B.Sc. from Cairo University,
Egypt. He has a M.S. in the Management
of Technology from Stevens Institute of
Technology, N.J., and is a certified
project manager from the Project
Management Institute (PMI). He is the
author of Protocols for Secure
Electronic Commerce, CRC Press, 2nd ed.
(2003), Paiements �lectroniques
s�curis�s, Presses polytechniques et
universitaires romandes, 2006, Managing
Projects in Telecommunication Services,
John Wiley and Sons, 2006 and is a
contributor to Managing IP Networks,
IEEE Press, 2003. He is the editor of
Handbook of Entreprise Integration, CRC
Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2009; a co-editor
of Management of Technology Innovation
and Value Creation, World Scientific
Publications, Singapore, 2008 and New
Directions in Technology Management,
Elsevier Science, Ltd., 2006, Elsevier,
2006. He is also a standards editor for
the IEEE Communications Magazine, an
associate editor of the International
Journal of IT Standards &
Standardization Research and in the
editorial board of the International
Journal of Technology Marketing. |
Alain Vouffo, MyFIRE,
EU
Alain-G. Vouffo Feudjio graduated MSc in
communication networks and computing
systems at the Technical University
Berlin in 2001 and has since then been
working as an expert in software design
and test automation for reactive
software-based systems (communication
systems, network protocols, SOA-based
systems etc.). M. Vouffo has been
actively involved in several EU-funded
FP6 projects on IPv6 Testing and worked
at the European Telecommunications
Standardization Institute (ETSI), as
member of several Specialist Task Forces
(STF) on the specification and
implementation of standardized
interoperability and conformance test
suites targeting several protocol
families, including IPv6, WIMAX and
SIGTRAN protocols.
M. Vouffo is currently actively involved
in the EU-funded FP7 MyFire
(http://www.my-fire.eu) project, leading
work package 1, which aims at
identifying the needs of the research
communities with regard to future
Internet research and experimentation
facilities. At the same time he is also
completing a PhD thesis on model-driven
test process optimization for reactive
software systems for various
technologies from a wide variety of
domains. |
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