Panels

Panelists:

• Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Title: A roadmap in the labyrinth of standards
Christos Douligeris, currently a Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece, held positions with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami. He was an associate member of the Hellenic Authority for Information and Communication Assurance and Privacy and the President and CEO Hellenic Electronic Governance for Social Security SA. Dr. Douligeris has published extensively in the networking scientific literature and he has participated in many research and development projects. His main research interests lie in the areas of computer networking, communications, network security, cyber security, web science, data analytics, new technologies in education and emergency response operations.

• Slawomir Gorniak (EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA)

Title: Role of standards in the current and future EU cybersecurity legislation
Slawomir Gorniak, CISSP, CISM, is a telecommunications engineer focused on network security. Since 2008 he works at ENISA (EU Agency for Cybersecurity), where he has been involved in the areas of standardisation, certification and electronic identification. He is a coordinator and co-author of multiple ENISA reports covering various aspects of information security. Currently he is responsible for the Agency’s actions in the area of standardisation and assures its liaisons with Standards Developing Organisations.

• Liina Kamm (Cybernetica AS, Estonia)

Liina Kamm received her PhD in computer science (cryptography) from the University of Tartu (Estonia) in 2015. She is a researcher and research project manager at Cybernetica AS (an SME in Estonia). She started her professional career designing software for the Estonian Genome Foundation and for cross-border clinical trials. She then focused her research on enabling privacy-preserving statistical analysis for social sciences and genomics. She is the chairman of Technical Committee 4 (Information technology) of the Estonian Centre for Standardisation and Accreditation, and represents Estonia in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Working Groups 2 and 5. She leads the CyberSec4Europe standardisation work package and certification tasks.

• Ioannis Papagiannopoulos (Piraeus Port, Greece)

Title: Maritime Standards in Practice
Ioannis Papagiannopoulos has a BSc in Physics from National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, an MS postgraduate degree in Data Networks and MBA. Also he is a PhD candidate of the University of the Aegean on a subject entitled Security Resilient Maturity Model – Business Continuity. He has many certifications and extensive experience in the management of large IT projects, Information Systems Management, teaching experience in various university institutes and colleges. He has a big experience in many European Projects as project leader or as partner. (Participation in a numerous EU Project related to Security and Safety such as MEMO, SEE MARINER as Project leader, TrainMOS, S-Port, CYSM, Medusa, Mitigate, Poseidon MED I and Poseidon MED II as partner, SUPPORT, AUGGMED, SAURON, CBRN etc). Also, as chairman for the Science and Technology Committee of H2020 EU Project “AUGGMED”. Now, he is a business executive of the COSCO SHIPPING – PPA as a Port Facility Security Officer, who is responsible for the implementation of the ISPS Code and as the Deputy Security Officer of Piraeus Port. Also, he is Deputy Director of COSCO SHIPPING – PPA’s Directorate of Security – Safety and Environmental Protection.

• Antonis Billis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Title: Towards a standardization of patient involvement in research and innovation development: the LifeChamps standardization plan
Dr. Antonis Billis is an Electrical and Computer Engineer and holds a PhD in the research area of digital biomarkers for remote patient monitoring scenarios. As of today he holds the position of PostDoc Research Fellow in the Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation, at the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main research interests lie within: ehealth/mhealth, digital biomarkers, clinical decision support systems, cancer informatics, intelligent remote patient monitoring systems, smart hospitals, as well as assistive technologies for vulnerable population. He has published numerous scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals and gave several oral presentations in international conferences. For his scientific work he has received 2 scholarships from the Captain Fanourakis Foundation and «Support of young researchers» of the Greek Minister of Growth and Investments. In addition, he has more than 10 years of research experience, as he has participated in numerous national and EU funded projects. Currently he scientifically coordinates the LifeChamps project, funded under the Horizon 2020 research framework, focusing on machine learning and Big Data for the QoL support of older cancer survivors.

Panel 4: “Standards for Aerial Communications”

Tuesday, November 29, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM Athens time

Room: ZEUS AB

Moderator:

• Kamesh Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA)

Kamesh Namuduri is a Professor of electrical engineering and the Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory in University of North Texas. During the past 11 years, Dr. Namuduri’s research has focused on aerial networking and communications. He is a co-editor for the book titled UAV Networks and Communications, which was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2017. He is leading the Smart and Connected Community project on “Deployable Communication Systems” in collaboration with the government, public and private organizations. This living laboratory project was demonstrated thrice during the Global City Teams Challenge hosted jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and US Ignite from 2015 to 2018. He contributed to the development of research agenda, requirements and blueprints highly deployable communications systems led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Public Safety Telecommunications Council. Dr. Namuduri earned his bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Osmania University in India, his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Hyderabad, and Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from University of South Florida.

Panelists:

• Kenneth Goodrich (NASA, USA)

Kenneth Goodrich is the Deputy Project Manager for Technology of the NASA Advanced Air Mobility Project. He has been with NASA for 38 years and has spent much of his career improving the safety, utility, and ease of use of aircraft through the development of advanced aircraft automation, pilot interface, and flight operations technologies. Mr. Goodrich oversees the development and coordination of technology requirements, priorities, and research planning and execution with internal and external AAM stakeholders including industry and the FAA. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan and George Washington University, respectively.

• Kenneth Bandelier (VIAVI Solutions, USA)

Kenneth Bandelier is an Application Engineer at VIAVI Solutions who has worked in the field of Avionics Testing for over twenty years. He has worked with numerous international OEMs, airlines, and MROs in both military and commercial aerospace fields to assist with their test equipment training, installation, operation, and technical issue resolution needs specializing in large integrated Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) systems. He is a member of the IEEE P1920.2 Vehicle to Vehicle Communications for UAS Working Group and also a member of various RTCA subcommittees. He has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Central Missouri.

• Keven Gambold (Unmanned Experts, USA)

Keven Gambold completed 21 years of active duty service with the Royal Air Force as a front-line combat pilot, logging 1500 hours in Tornado GR4 fast-jets, and another 1500 hours of unmanned combat missions and two deployments to Iraq. In his subsequent role as Director for the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (North America)’s Technical Aviation and Safety Committee, Keven has published peer-reviewed papers on UAS operations in the civil sector, in addition to being an active member of RTCA SC-203 and SC-228. Keven has chaired several global UAS Conferences and Workshops and has written and broadcast numerous Webinars and authored/co-authored a number of books. Keven has also written, and taught numerous international UAS training courses. With a Masters in Aeronautical Operations and a Commercial Pilots License, he is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Unmanned Experts Inc.

Panel 5: “What will be the scope of the future 6G standards?”

Wednesday, November 30, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM Athens time

Room: Virtual in Zoom

Moderator:

• Rui L. Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

Rui L. Aguiar (born 1967) is a Full Professor at University of Aveiro. He is also a Research Associate at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. He is currently coordinating a research line in Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, on the area of Networks and Services. He has been serving as Steering Board Chair of Networld Europe, the European ETP representing the telecommunications community, engaged in the discussions of the future European R&D workprogrames for telecommunications. He has been previously been associated with Carnegie Mellon University, the Universidade de Uberlandia, and has been an advisory for the portuguese Secretaria de Estado das Comunicacoes and member of the task force for 5G cybersecurity. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM. He is a regular keynote speaker in the future of mobile communications and digital society, with dozens of talks across the whole world. He is an associated editor of Wiley’s Emerging Telecommunication Technologies and Springers’ Wireless Networks. He has more than 500 papers published.

Panelists:

• Richard Li (Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA)

Title: What is needed from network layers by 6G applications?
Dr. Richard Li is Chief Scientist and Vice President of Network Technologies at Futurewei, USA. Richard served as the Chairman of the ITU-T FG Network 2030 from 2018 to 2020, and as the Vice Chairman of the Europe ETSI ISG NGP (Next-Generation Protocols) from 2016 to 2019. He has also served as Co-Chairs of steering committees and technical program committees of some academic and industrial conferences. Richard is extremely passionate about advancing ICT infrastructure technologies and solving problems in their entirety, thus creating a bigger and long-term impact on the networking industry. During his career, Richard spearheaded network technology innovation and development in Routing and MPLS, Mobile Backhaul, Metro and Core Networks, Data Center, Cloud and Virtualization. Currently he leads a team of scientists and engineers to develop technologies for next-generation network architectures, protocols, algorithms, and systems in the support of emerging and forward-looking applications and industry verticals in the context of New IP, Network 2030, and 5G/B5G/6G.

• Ashutosh Dutta (Johns Hopkins University and IEEE Future Networks Initiative, USA)

Title: Future Networks: The INGR Vision and the Path to 6G
As a Technical Leader in 5G and security, IEEE Fellow Ashutosh Dutta has been serving as the founding Co-Chair for the IEEE Future Networks Initiative that focuses on 5G standardization, education, publications, testbed, and roadmap activities. Ashutosh currently works as Chief 5G Strategist and Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering for Engineering Professional Program at JHU. Earlier Ashutosh worked as Director of Technology Security at AT&T, CTO for NIKSUN, Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University and Computer Engineer at TATA Motors. Ashutosh is the author of more than 100 technical papers and 31 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled, “Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application” published by Wiley-IEEE press. Ashutosh currently serves as the founding co-chair for IEEE Future Networks Initiative and Member-At-Large for IEEE Communications Society, where was a Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the IEEE STEM conference for the last 10 years, as well as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society from 2014-2019. He has served as the general Co-Chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forums and has organized 85 5G World Summits around the world. Ashutosh currently serves as the Chair for IEEE Industry Connection’s O-RAN activities. Ashutosh is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT Rourkela with BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne.

• Tao Chen (VTT Finland)

Title: 6G Research in O-RAN Alliance
Dr. Tao Chen is a principal scientist at VTT Finland and the co-chair of the next generation research group (nGRG) in O-RAN Alliance. In VTT, he used to lead a team that develops AI/ML applications, data analytics, and data-driven solutions for a variety of industry sectors, including telecommunications, satellite remote sensing, automated driving, and mining. He has over two decades of experience in the communication sector and extensive experience leading significant research and development projects in Europe. Back to 2015, Dr. Chen’s EU COHERENT project was the first to propose the RAN intelligent controller concept within a software defined RAN. He is a Royal Academy of Engineering visiting professor at University of Kent, UK, and associated professor (Docent) at University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

• Ruiqi Liu (ZTE, China)

Ruiqi (Richie) Liu received the B.S. and M.S. degree (with honors) in electronic engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He is now a master researcher in the wireless research institute of ZTE Corporation, responsible for long-term research as well as standardization. His research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, wireless positioning, quantum communication and visible light communication. He is the author or co-author of several books and book chapters. During his 3-year service at 3GPP from 2019 to 2022, he has authored and submitted more than 500 technical documents with over 100 of them approved, and he served as the co-rapporteur of the work item (WI) on NR RRM enhancement and the feature lead of multiple features. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of ISG RIS in the ETSI. He actively participates in organizing committees, technical sessions, workshops, symposia and industry panels in IEEE conferences as the chair, organizer, moderator, panelist or invited speaker. He served as the lead guest editor for the special issue on 6G in IEEE OJCOMS. He serves as the Editor of ITU Journal of Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) and the Associate Editor of IET Quantum Communication. He is the Standardization Officer for IEEE ComSoc ETI on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (ETI-RIS) and the Standards Liaison Officer for IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCC-TC). He received the Outstanding Service Award from the SPCC-TC in 2022 and 2 best workshop awards as the chair.