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Xiaomi An Professor, Renmin University of China Xiaomi An, Professor at the School of Information Resources Management in Renmin University of China, received her Ph.D. degree from University of Liverpool, Fulbright research scholar of University California, Los Angeles, distinguished Visiting Scholar Award of University of Sheffield’s Information School. Leader of Big Data Governance Team at the Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education in Renmin University of China, Leader of the Data Governance Team at the Smart City Research Center in Renmin University of China. As author or editor-in-chief of 20 books, published over 270 papers, chair over 50 projects. Convener of IEC SyC Smart Cities/WG1 on Terminology, project leaders of IEC 63234 ED1 “International Electrotechnical vocabulary–Part 831: Smart cities systems” and IEC TS 63235 ED1 “Smart City System – Methodology for concepts and taxonomies building”, “ISO 30300 Information and documentation-Records management-Core concepts and vocabulary”, “DPM Terms and Definitions, Taxonomies” and “Technical Enablers for Trusted Data” of ITU-T FG DPM. Expert of IEC/ISO/ITU Smart Cities Coordination Task Group Draft White Paper: Suggested Priority Terms in Need of Common Definitions to Support Standards Activities for Smart Cities and member of ISO JTCG F4 of TMB (Providing guidance documents to people writing management system standards under ISO Technical Management Board).
Jun Kyun Choi Professor, KAIST, Korea Prof. Jun Kyun Choi received the B.Sc. (Eng.) from Seoul National University in electronics engineering, Seoul, Korea in 1982, and M.Sc (Eng.) and Ph.D degree in 1985 and 1988, respectively, in electronics engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). From June 1986 until December 1997, he was with the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI). In January 1998, he joined the Information and Communications University (ICU), Daejeon, Korea as Professor. At year 2009, he moves to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as Professor. He served for KAIST IT convergence center as director during 2011 - 2014. His research interests are concerned with network protocol and performance analysis including IPTV. Dr. Choi was an active member of ITU-T Study Group 13 as a Rapporteur or Editor from January 1993 on the ATM, MPLS, and NGN issues. He is Head of Korean Delegation (1993 - 2010) and the working group chairman of IPTV Focus Group (year 2006 – 2007). He had submitted more than 450 contributions at ITU-T and more than 50 drafts on IETF.
II Young Chong Professor, HUFS, Korea Il Young Chong joined at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) in 1980, and since 1996 he has served with professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Korea. He has taken the role of Dean of Engineering College and Vice-President of HUFS from 2006 to 2012. He received the Ph.D. of computer science from the University of Massachusetts, USA 1992. He involved in research on communications service platform, service-oriented networking and IoT (Internet of Things) services. He is project leader of Korean Consortium for two ITEA3 EU projects, Web of Objects (WoO) and EmoSpaces (Enhanced Affective Wellbeing based on Emotion Technologies for adapting IoT spaces) since 2011. Since 2003 he has taken 8 editors to develop 5 ITU-T Recommendations and 3 draft Recommendations on NGN, IPTV, home network and IoT.
Hui Ding Co-Founder and COO, Chaincomp Technologies Dr. Hui Ding is the co-founder and COO of Chaincomp Technologies Co., Ltd. She was senior cooperation manager at Central Research Institute, 2012 Labs, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. She worked with ITU-T SG13, ONF, OIF, IETF and participated in more than 20 SDO projects including SDN northbound API, Intent-based API, information modeling, open-source tooling development and ONF/OIF global interoperability demo as researcher and standard engineer in China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China. She obtained Ph.D degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Okan Geray WG5 Co-chair, Strategic Planning Advisor, Smart Dubai, UAE Dr. Okan Geray has more than 20 years of experience in management consulting in various industries. He has consulted for a number of organizations in Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Turkey and Dubai. He has worked in A.T. Kearney global management consulting firm for 6 years and was a member of global Telecommunications and High Technology core team before he joined Dubai Government in 2002. He has worked as the strategic planning advisor in Dubai eGovernment, Dubai Smart Government, and more recently in Smart Dubai Office after its establishment. His responsibilities include Strategic Planning, Strategic Performance Management and Policy Making. He was the Co-Chair of Enhancing Innovation and Participation Working Group in United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) joint global initiative by ITU and UNECE. This working group addressed Smart Governance, Smart Economy and Smart People aspects in smart cities. He is currently leading three deliverables globally in U4SSC; namely “Guidelines on Strategies for Circular Cities”, “City Science Application Framework” and “Guiding principles for artificial intelligence in cities”. He is the Co-Chair of “Data Economy Impact, Commercialization and Monetization” Working Group in ITU Focus Group on Data Processing and Management. He is also the Co-Rapporteur of ITU Study Group 20 Question 7 on “Evaluation and assessment of Smart Sustainable Cities and Communities”. He holds double major B. S. degrees in Industrial and Computer Engineering from Bosphorus University in Istanbul Turkey, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Systems and Control Engineering from University of Massachusetts in USA. He has published journal and conference papers and has been an adjunct lecturer in management for 15 years.
SeungMyeong Jeong Senior Researcher, KETI, Korea SeungMyeong Jeong is a Senior Researcher in IoT Platform Research Center at Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI). He received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Ajou University, South Korea in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Before he joined KETI, he worked as a Junior Researcher at Advanced Standard R&D Lab., CTO Divison, LG Electronics in Seoul, South Korea, for six years. His research interests are in the areas of IoT middleware platforms (e.g. oneM2M) and interworking technologies. He has been the active member of oneM2M standardization from the beginning and now he’s the vice-chairman of oneM2M Architecture WG. Not just oneM2M standardization, he’s also involved in R&D projects pertaining to semantic interoperability collaborating EU consortium (i.e. FIESTA-IoT, WISE-IoT) and cognitive IoT R&D project in Korea. Finally, he’s been recently focused on IoT enabled smart cities with activities on NIST IES (IoT Enabled Smart)-City Framework, EU H2020 SynchroniCity project and Smart City Data Hub project in the Korean National Strategic Smart City Program.
Kyoung Cheol Koo Vice President, Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) Dr. Kyoung Cheol Koo is the Vice President of Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) which is ICT-related SDO in the Republic of Korea. He is in charge of Standardization Division within the TTA. He received Bachelor and Master from Hanyang University. He finished the Doctorial Coursework in KAIST and holds Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Pai-Chai University. He has been involved in the field of ICT standardization over 20 years. He started his work in 1992 as a researcher at Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). In 2001, he moved to the TTA for improving standardization system of Korea. He accomplished a lot of projects for ICT standardization such as establishment of ICT Standardization Roadmap in Korea, planning of national ICT standardization projects, setting up National ICT Standardization Policy and Strategy, etc. He has played an important delegation role in International Standardization Meetings such as ITU-PP (2002, 2006 and 2018), WTSA and ITU-T TSAG. He has also engaged in GSC (Global Standards Collaboration), CJK (China-Japan-Korea) IT meeting, 3GPP PCG/OP and oneM2M as Head of Delegation.
Antonio Kung CEO, Trialog Antonio Kung is the CEO of Trialog which he co-founded Trialog in 1987. He has a background on cyberphysical systems, with an initial experience on the development of real-time operating systems. He focuses on the integration of non functional requirements such as dependability, interoperability, security or privacy. He has worked in a number of domains (ageing, smart cities, energy, or transport) and has coordinated a large number of European projects in these areas. He is involved in standardisation activities on security and privacy, currently the editor or co-editor of ISO/IEC 21823-3, 27030, 27550, 27570, 27556 (interoperability, security, privacy). He is also the rapporteur of a ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 study period on the impact of AI to privacy. Antonio holds a master’s degree from Harvard University, United States and an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris, France.
Steve Liang CTO/Associate Professor, SensorUp/University of Calgary, Canada Dr. Steve Liang is a world-renown researcher, teacher, and entrepreneur. Dr. Liang is a global influencer and change maker in the emerging area of the Internet of Things (IoT), a disruptive technology that will radically change the world we live in. Dr. Liang is currently the working group chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) SensorThings API Standard Working Group and the Rapporteur of the ITU-T Q12/11 on IoT Test Specifications. From 2011 to 2014, Dr. Liang held the AITF-Microsoft Industrial Research Chair on Open Sensor Web. In 2013, he was selected as one of Calgarys Top 40 under 40. In the past four years, Dr. Liang has given more than 50 invited talks in more than ten countries around the world. Dr. Steve Liang is also the founder and CEO of SensorUp Inc., offering an innovative standard-compliant IoT cloud platform.
Gyu Myoung Lee Chair, ITUT FG-DPM, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) Gyu Myoung Lee received his BS degree from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and his MS and PhD degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2007. He is with the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK, as a Senior Lecturer from 2014 and with KAIST Institute for IT convergence, Korea, as an adjunct professor from 2012. Prior to joining the LJMU, he has worked with the Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France, from 2008. Until 2012, he had been invited to work with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. He also worked as a research professor in KAIST, Korea and as a guest researcher in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, in 2007. His research interests include Internet of things, future networks, multimedia services, and energy saving technologies including smart grids. He has been actively working for standardization in ITU-T, IETF and oneM2M, etc., and currently serves as a WP chair in SG13, a Rapporteur of Q16/13 and Q4/20 as well as an Editor in ITU-T. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Wonsuk Lee Senior Research Staff, ETRI Dr. Wonsuk Lee is a senior research staff in ETRI which is government sponsored research institute of South Korea. He is part of service standard research lab of protocol engineering center in the organization from 2015. Prior to joining the ETRI, he was worked for web development group of mobile communication division in Samsung Electronics from 2011.His research interests include Internet of things, connected car, blockchain and web platform. Dr. Wonsuk Lee has been actively working for standardization in W3C, ITU-T, ISO and OCF, etc. In W3C he made an ontology and API specifications related to media annotation on the Web as an editor and he had a chair role for system applications WG during two and half years. He had made international standards in ITU-T SG13 and ISO IEC/JTC1. Currently he is the chair of automotive and web platform business group in W3C and the editor of automotive WG in W3C. In addition he is Korean Delegation for ISO/TC 307, which is the group in charge of the standard for blockchain and DLT.
Kyeong Hee Oh CEO, TCA services Kyeong Hee Oh, CEO of TCA services, Outside director of Korea Internet & Security Agency She is an information security professional with a 20+ years’ experience. She had participated the establishment of the evaluation criteria for information security product, of the national PKI, of ISMS certification scheme in Korea and developed the first draft of Privacy Information Management Systems in Korea. She has involved with the International standardization from 2010, she is now Co-rapporteur of ITU-T SG 17 Q14 Security aspects of distributed ledger technologies, liaison officer to TC 307 and FG-DLT, Korean delegation of ISO TC 307 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, and Head of Korean delegation of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 WG 1 Information Security Management.
Ramy Ahmed Fathy Vice Chairman of ITU-T SG20, Director, Digital Services Planning and Risk Assessment, NTRA, Cairo, Egypt Ramy Ahmed Fathy is the Director of Digital Services Planning and Risk Assessment at the Egyptian National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA). As the Director of Digital Services, he seeks the development and implementation of sustainable and effective digital services in the Egyptian market. His role at NTRA includes the development of guidelines, regulatory frameworks, viable business models, and effective specifications & technical operating parameters, which ensure efficient and effective services' operation. He is leading the design, and specifications development of intelligent and digital services; addressing interoperability, risk, regulatory impact assessment and services’ market adoption while employing a wide set of tools related to radio network planning, transport design, market modeling, and optimization. Fathy has been actively involved at the different stages of development of various intelligent ICT systems and services, in addition to numerous ICT-for-development and digital transformation initiatives including national broadband networks, smart cities, m2m and IoT enabling regulatory frameworks, smart utilities, eGov, water management, and next generation access planning. His 15 years of experience include projects design, budgeting, and planning of smart cities, enterprise automation, DTV transformation, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Over the past 10 years, Fathy has served in key roles in the international standardization arena. In 2012, he served as the Vice-Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group of Bridging the Gap between Innovations and Standardization (Focus Group Innovation). One year later, he was elected as the Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Water Management for a period of two years. Currently he is serving as the Vice Chairman of the ITU-T Study Group 20 (SG20) on IoT and its applications including smart cities and communities since late 2015 where he is leading activities related to the standardization of end-to-end architectures for IoT and smart cities, intelligence, mechanisms for the interoperability of IoT applications, security, and identification aspects of IoT systems. Fathy has a PhD in electronics and communications. He has led R&D projects in radio network planning and optimization, cognitive radio systems, video coding, cryptography, DSP/FPGA/GPP based implementations of consumer electronics products and satellite communication systems. He has numerous publications in esteemed journals and conferences, and he's the author of one book in electronics.