KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Siavash M. Alamouti
Intel Fellow and CTO,
Mobile Wireless Group,
Intel
The Roadmap for Mobile Internet (Slide) Siavash M. Alamouti is an Intel Fellow in the Mobility Group and Chief Technology Officer for the Mobile Wireless Group of Intel. In this role, he is responsible for all wireless standards and technology at Intel. Prior to joining Intel in 2004, Alamouti worked for Vivato, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, AT&T Wireless Services and MPR Teltech Ltd. in various engineering roles. Alamouti completed his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering in University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is recognized by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the best 57 papers in the last 50 years of the Society's history. He is most well known for the invention of "the Alamouti code" which is included in a number of wireless standards. Alamouti holds over 20 patents in the areas of wireless communication applications and wireless systems design. He has authored many publications and technical reports in the last decade for the IEEE Communications Society and other organizations that have reached professional audiences both nationally and internationally.
Prof. Hikmet Sari
Head, Telecommunications Department, SUPELEC,
Chief Scientist, SEQUANS Communications,
France
A Brief History of OFDMA and SC-FDMA (Slide)
Hikmet Sari is Professor and Head of the Telecommunications Department at SUPELEC, which is one of the leading graduate schools in France in the field of electrical engineering. Since December 2004, he has also been Chief Scientist of SEQUANS Communications, a Paris-based start-up, which has become one of the top technology companies developing WiMAX chips. Previously, he held scientific and key management positions at Philips, SAT (SAGEM Group), Alcatel, Pacific Broadband Communication and Juniper Networks. Hikmet is a world-renowned expert in the field of wireless communications. He is recognized both in academia and industry. He has published over 180 journal and conference papers, holds over 25 patents, and has given numerous invited talks in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. He served on the Awards Committee of the IEEE Communications Society from 2005 to 2007 and on the Fellow Evaluation Committee of this society from 2002 to 2007. He was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow in 1995. He received the Andre Blondel Medal from the SEE (France) in 1995 and the Edwin H. Armstrong Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 2003. He has served as Editor or Guest Editor for several international journals including the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Communications Letters, European Transactions on Telecommunications and Related Technologies (ETT), and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. He was Chair of the Communication Theory Symposium of ICC 2002 (April 2002, New York), Technical Program Chair of ICC 2004, (June 2004, Paris) and Vice General Chair of ICC 2006 (June 2006, Istanbul). He is also General Chair of the forthcoming PIMRC 2010.
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Prof. Arogyaswami J Paulraj
Stanford University
Engineering Challenges in Field Deployment of 4G Wireless Broadband (Slide)
Professor Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University, is a pioneer of MIMO wireless communications, a technology break through that enables dramatically improved wireless performance. MIMO is now incorporated into all new wireless standards including WiFi, WIMAX and 3.5G. Paulraj is the author of over 400 research papers, two text books and a co-inventor in over 40 patents. He won the IEEE Technical Achievement Award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. In 1999, Paulraj founded Iospan Wireless Inc - which developed MIMO-OFDMA wireless system. Iospan was acquired in by Intel Corporation in 2003. In 2004, Paulraj co-founded Beceem Communications Inc to develop chips sets for WIMAX 802.16e standard. The company has emerged as the leading supplier of Mobile WIMAX chipsets.
Dr. Jorge Pereira
Principal Scientific Officer
European Commission
Non-trivial Applications of WiMAX: Dealing with Heterogeneous Requirements
Dr. Pereira has been with the European Commission (EC) since 1996, in what is now the Directorate General Information Society and Media. He is currently responsible for Wireless Sensor Networks and Cooperating Objects and Complex Systems in the area of Networked Embedded and Control Systems, after being responsible for the areas of Energy Efficiency and Emergency and Crisis Management. Until 2004, he worked in the area of Mobile and Wireless communications, where he was instrumental in defining the research agenda in the areas of Reconfigurable/Software Defined Radio Networks and 4G. He is a member of the EC's Spectrum Inter-service Group, and is an advisor to the European Defence Agency (ESA) on issues relating to Communications in general, and Reconfigurable/Software Defined/Cognitive Radio and Spectrum in particular, as well as distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Control. He is a member of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum. He is a member of the Advisory Board of John Wiley's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, and of the Editorial Board of Kluwer Academic Publishers' Wireless Personal Communications Journal. He is a Member of the IEEE and of the ACM. He has recently taken up the position of Associate Editor for Mobile Radio, including Vehicular Communications, for the IEEE VTS Magazine. He received the SDR Forum 2003 Industry Achievement Award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions, research and development in the field of SDR". Dr. Pereira obtained his PhD. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1993, and his Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal in 1983 and 1987, respectively.
Mr. Jose Puthenkulam
Vice Chair, IEEE 802.16
Wireless Standards and Technology,
Mobility Group, Intel IEEE 802.16m for IMT-Advanced (Slide) Mr. Jose Puthenkulam is the Director of WiMAX Standards in the Mobile Wireless Group, Mobility Group in Intel Corporation. He also presently serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group developing Broadband Wireless Standards. He was the Intel technical and standardization lead for the 802.16e standard and significantly instrumental in engaging the ecosystem for completing the standard on time. Presently he is leading the standardization efforts in the 802.16m project targeting IMT-Advanced. He was also the editor of the initial ITU-R IMT-2000 contribution for inclusion of WiMAX in IMT-2000 family. He has been at Intel since 1996, and has worked on wireless communications, security, video conferencing, information management protocols and related technologies. He has also been active in promoting 802.16 standards internationally for Broadband Wireless applications. He was the Assistant Technical Editor of the IEEE 802.16e Mobile Broadband Wireless Standard and the Co-Technical Editor of the IEEE 802.16g Air Interface Management Standard. He has broad wireless communication protocol standardization experience having worked in IEEE, IETF, 3GPP, WiMAX Forum and GSM Association. He is currently an IEEE Senior member and member of the IEEE Communication Soceity. He is also a significant contributor of the EAP-SIM protocol in IETF EAP Working Group and also other topics in compound authentication. He is also well trained in SEI CMM software development processes having worked in an SEI Level 5 organization (Motorola India Electronics Ltd.) in Bangalore. He has won several awards including the 2008 and 2004 Intel Achievement Awards for efforts on Mobile Broadband Wireless Standardization, 2003 GSM Association CEO Award for 3G-WLAN Authentication efforts, 1995 Motorola India Individual Performance Award for his work on H.320 Multimedia Communication Protocol based system implementation. He has also won Intel Division Recognition Awards for his technical contributions in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. He has an Masters (M.Tech) in Electronics Design and Technology (1994) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (1992) from College of Engineering Trivandrum, University of Kerala, India. |
