CCNC is featuring an outstanding lineup of keynote speakers this year. With our keynotes, we have tried to find outstanding speakers from several of CCNC's key constituencies, including wireless networking, consumer electronics, and networking applications. In addition, each workshop will feature its own keynote as well.
Dr. Henry Tirri Michail Bletsas Dr. Hosoo Lee
Research Fellow and Chief Connectivity Officer Executive VP/Director of
Head of System One Laptop Per Child Software Laboratories in
Research Centers Corporate Technology
Nokia Research Operations
Samsung Electronics
Dr. Henry Tirri is Research Fellow and Head of System Research Centers (SRC), Nokia Research Center, Nokia's corporate research unit. Interacting closely with all Nokia business groups,, Nokia Research Center is responsible for the strategic and long-term research in Nokia. Henry is responsible for the research at the Systems Research Centers which strive for disruptive systems research with open innovation collaboration globally. SRCs thrive to enable new business opportunities for Nokia by extending the traditional Nokia realm of research, with strong relations to and a strong presence in world leading innovation ecosystems.
Henry joined Nokia in 2004 as Research Fellow at Software and Applications Laboratory. He holds Ph.D. in Computer Science from Unioversity of Helsinki, Finland. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at the Univeristy of Helsinki and an Adjunct Professor of Computational Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology. His interests lie in various subfields of Artificial Intelligence, information theory, search technologies and wireless sensor networks.
Henry has extensive experience in running both research activities in the fields of intelligent systems and networking. Before joining Nokia he was the Head of Graduate School at University of Helsinki, Head of Intelligent Systems Laboratory and was leading a large world-class research group in probabilistic modeling. He has held various positions of Research Scientist at MCC, MTS at At&T Bell Laboratories, Visiting Associate Professor at Purdue University, Visiting Sicentist at NASA AMES, Visiting Professor at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, and Vice President of Scientific Operations and Co-Founder of Ekahau.
Henry is the author and co-author of more tha 170 academic papers in various fields of Computer Science, Social Sciences and Statistics. He has five patents.
Michail Bletsas is OLPC's (One Laptop Per Child) Chief Connectivity Officer. In that capacity he is responsible for integrating the software, hardware and service provider agreements needed for the laptops to be connected together and to the Internet after deployment. He is a research scientist (on leave) from MIT, where he was the Director of Computing at the Media Laboratory for over a decade. He designed and deployed most of the internet network infrastructure systems at the Media Lab. His research involves experimenting with wireless networks that are implemented using off-the-shelf, low-cost components to provide broadband Internet access to underserved areas. He has taught seminars on Computer and Network Security at MIT. He has lectured internationally on a variety of Internet subjects and has been the keynote speaker in a number of international conferences.
Before joining the Media Lab, he was a systems engineer at Aware, Inc., where he designed and wrote high-performance software libraries for Intel's distributed-memory parallel supercomputers, and was involved in the development of one of the first ADSL Internet-access test beds.
With over 20 years of professional experience, he has consulted for a number of companies and has served on various governmental committees. Currently he sits on Mayor Thomas Menino's (City of Boston) WiFi task force and on Greece's Ministry of Development Competitiveness Program Committee.
He has served as an advisor to a variety of high tech startup companies. He is a founder of Velti S.A., a successful Greek software company which focuses on the telecom and banking sectors.
Besides his professional engagements, he has been involved with various NGOs. In 1995, he was a founder and the technical director of the HR-Net project which at that time operated the largest news aggregator website for the Balkan region. He currently serves on the board of directors of Access2Democracy.
He holds a diploma in electrical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and an MSc in computer engineering from Boston University.
Ho Soo Lee has been Executive VP of Samsung Electronics since September 2005 and is currently Head of Software Labs, Samsung Electronics. He received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Seoul National University in 1975, and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1977. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, Northwestern University in 1985. He subsequently joined the Watson Research Center and held a number of technical and managerial positions for projects in the fields of pervasive (ubiquitous) computing, supply chain optimization, dynamic pricing mechanisms, e-Commerce and rule-based programming. In partnership with the Korean government, he founded IBM Ubiquitous Computing Lab. (UCL) in 2004, focusing on ubiquitous computing solutions including embedded software, telematics and RFID. He served as Director of the IBM UCL until he joined Samsung Electronics in Sept. 2005.
He has published a number of papers, and holds eight US Patents. He received an "Outstanding Innovation Award" on Matching Algorithm in December 2000. Based on work on "Combinatorial and Quantity Discount Auctions with Mutual Benefits," his team was chosen as one of the Finalists of the 2002 Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement competition sponsored by INFORMS. He served The Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers in America (KOCSEA) as President in 1996.
His current research interests include pervasive computing, mobile computing, web & search technique, embedded software, and software engineering.
