SEMINAR

Shiro SAKATA joined Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation in 1974. He was engaged in research on Internet, multimedia communications, mobile communications, and ubiquitous networking. He received a Ph.D. in electronic and communication engineering from Waseda University in 1991. He served as the Director of Internet System Research Laboratories from 1996 to 1999, and the Director of Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation from 1999 to 2004. He joined Chiba University, Japan in 2004 and is currently a Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science. His current research covers Quality of Service (QoS) control, reliability, energy efficiency in Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications including wireless sensor networks, wireless Personal Area Network (PAN) s/Local Area Network (LAN) s, next generation cellular networks, smart grid, ad hoc/mesh networks, and home networks. Dr. Sakata received IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Research Contribution Award in 2017. He is an IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Fellow for his pioneering research contribution to ubiquitous network technologies, and an IPSJ Fellow for his pioneering research contribution to multimedia and mobile communication technologies. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Phil Beecher is the chairman of the Wi-SUN Alliance, an industry organization which promotes standards-based interoperable wireless communications products for Smart Utility Networks, Smart City and Internet of Things applications and implements a rigorous testing and certification program to achieve its aims. Phil has extensive experience in wireless communications protocols, standards and testing. He was chairman of IEEE 802.15 TG4g, TG4u and TG4v ( wireless standards for Smart Utility Networks for use globally, vice chairman of IEEE 802.15 TG4m (TV Whitespace), vice chairman of the WiFi Alliance Smart Grid Task Group, Chairman of OpenSG Edge Conformity Task Group, Contributing Editor to IEEE802.15.4-2006 and has held positions in the US Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Test and Certification Committee, Telecom Industry Association and Bluetooth SIG. He has been an active contributor in the development of communications standards and the specification of test plans for a number of Smart Utility Network standards, including Advanced Metering Infrastructure and Home Energy Management Systems. He is a graduate of the University of Sussex with a degree in Electronic Engineering and holds patents in communications and networking technology.

Jean-Michel Serre is President of Orange Japan. Until Feb. 2013, Jean-Michel Serre was the Orange Group Inspector General, reporting to Orange Group Chairman. He has been elected Chairman of French Trade Councilor in Japan in July 2015. Since he joined Orange , he hold different senior positions in operations ( Regional Director) and at headquarters (Group Quality Director , Director Sales & Customer Relations for France).He became in 2009 Group Mediator and Group General Inspector. He has a PhD of atomic physics ( Paris Orsay and CERN Geneva ) after studies at Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications

Michael Lee serves as Director, Global Ecosystem Partners, APAC in Sigfox. With two decades in the communication industry, Lee has extensive experience in demand creation, implementation, and management of Asia market strategies for cellular semiconductors and system solutions. Serving as director of global ecosystem partners APAC, Lee's goal is to establish the full ecosystem partnership from semiconductors, modules, devices, to cloud platform integration for Sigfox in this region. Prior to joining Sigfox, Lee served as director of mobile communication APAC for Nvidia, focusing on 4G solution design-ins at handset, tablet and M2M module segments. Prior to that, he was senior director of APAC Sales with Icera, responsible of sales, business development and technical support activities in Asia Pac for HSPA/HSPA+/LTE SDR solutions in mobile broadband application. Before joining Icera in 2008, Lee carried different sales & marketing roles in TriQuint, Skyworks and BenQ.

Wu Liangping is currently the vice president of cellular IoT product line in Huawei Technology Co. Ltd, responsible for cellular IOT chip&module product development to sales. He has a full range of 16 years working experience in telecom field including R&D on GSM/UMTS/LTE for 10 years and Marketing on fixed network 6 years. During the past two years, as a core member, He successfully push NB-IoT technology to be standardized by 3GPP and created NB-IOT Open Lab which attracted leading operators and industry players’ momentum and engagement

Monty is a Technology Director with over 20 years of experience at Cambridge Consultants.
He specialises in problems which require high performance computation and algorithms to solve, in diverse domains such as telecommunications, security, transport and healthcare.
He previously developed our digital signal processing capability, and since 2013 has focused on how to apply machine learning to industrial problems.

Niall Keegan has been developing business in Japan for technology and semiconductor companies for more than 20 years. At Sequans, he is responsible for working with operators and major customers in Japan to understand the market needs and deliver the semiconductor solution with best possible features, performance & price.

Dr. Antonio De Domenico (male) received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering in 2008 and 2012 from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the University of Grenoble, respectively. Since 2009, he has worked with the CEA-LETI - MINATEC, Grenoble, France, as a research engineer.
Currently, his research topics are cloud-enabled heterogeneous wireless networks, millimeter-wave-based communications, machine learning, and green communications. He has published 40+ scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings, 2 book chapters, and he is the main inventor or co-inventor of eleven patents. His published work accumulates over 1000 citations. Antonio has participated in the organization of major IEEE conferences such as PIRMC, Globecom, or CSCN.

With the increased use of wireless real-time video and with the outlook of massive machine-to-machine communications in the IoT environment, the standards and the requirements of wireless technology have been changing. On one hand, the IoT environment requires ultra-low-power solutions in order to achieve a battery life of 10 years; on the other hand, the move to higher bandwidths triggered a move towards millimeter wave frequencies. Both of these evolutions are a major challenge for developers. Imec has shown vision in this development and its innovative R&D efforts have resulted in white-box IP that is available for developers, significantly reducing the risk and time-to-market in following the new wireless direction.

Claire Troadec is leading the RF activity at Yole Développement. She has been a member of the MEMS manufacturing team from 2013. She graduated from INSA Rennes in France with an engineering degree in microelectronics and material sciences. She then joined NXP Semiconductors, and worked for 7 years as a CMOS process integration engineer at the IMEC R&D facility. During this time, she oversaw the isolation and performance boost of CMOS technology node devices from 90 nm down to 45 nm. She has authored or co-authored seven US patents and nine international publications in the semiconductor field and before joining Yole Développement managed her own distribution company.