Onur Altintas
speaker
Onur Altintas is the InfoTech Labs Fellow at InfoTech Labs, Toyota North America R&D, in Mountain View, California. He has been with the Toyota Group since 1999 in various roles in New Jersey, Tokyo and California. He has been the co-founder and general co-chair of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC) since 2009. He serves in the editorial boards of IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. He an elected Board Member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society between 2016 and 2018. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer between 2011-2015 and an IEEE Distinguished Speaker between 2015-2018.
Fan Bai
speaker
Fan Bai received the B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He is currently a Staff Researcher with the Electrical and Control Systems Laboratory, Research and Development and Planning, General Motors Corporation. He has authored or coauthored 90 research papers in top-quality conferences and journals, including INFOCOM, SECON, Mobicom, Mobihoc, Sensys, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He has authored one book and six book chapters. His current research interests include the design and analysis of protocols/systems for next-generation vehicular networks, for safety, telematics, and infotainment applications. He received the Charles L. McCuen Special Achievement Award from General Motors Corporation in recognition of his accomplishment in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle communications for drive assistance and safety. He was featured as “ITS People” in 2014 by IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine for his technical contributions to vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems. He serves as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the IEEE WiVec 2007, IEEE MoVeNet 2008, ACM VANET 2011, and ACM VANET 2012. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He also serves as the Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, and Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier). He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE.Fan Bai received the B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He is currently a Staff Researcher with the Electrical and Control Systems Laboratory, Research and Development and Planning, General Motors Corporation. He has authored or coauthored 90 research papers in top-quality conferences and journals, including INFOCOM, SECON, Mobicom, Mobihoc, Sensys, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He has authored one book and six book chapters. His current research interests include the design and analysis of protocols/systems for next-generation vehicular networks, for safety, telematics, and infotainment applications. He received the Charles L. McCuen Special Achievement Award from General Motors Corporation in recognition of his accomplishment in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle communications for drive assistance and safety. He was featured as “ITS People” in 2014 by IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine for his technical contributions to vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems. He serves as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the IEEE WiVec 2007, IEEE MoVeNet 2008, ACM VANET 2011, and ACM VANET 2012. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He also serves as the Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, and Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier). He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE.
Frank Hofmann
speaker
Frank Hofmann is a chief expert at Corporate Research at Robert Bosch GmbH in Hildesheim, Germany. In this role, he is responsible for strategy in research for communication systems. In addition, he leads a research group specializing in different communication and localization topics. He is also active in several consortia, e.g., 5G Automotive Association, Car2Car Communication Consortium and leads the consortium of the public-funded project 5G NetMobil. He holds a Diploma in electrical engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and received his Ph.D. from the University of Hanover. In the course of his career, he has been involved in the RF and baseband receiver, ASIC development of DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) and Galileo, as well as in the system design and standardization of DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale). His current main interest comprises all wireless communication systems with the emphasis on vehicle-to-x communication.
Volker Ziegler
speaker
Volker is a purpose driven, energetic and strategic leader with 25+ years of broad and international experience in the telecommunications industry. He currently serves as Senior Advisor and Chief Architect in Nokia Strategy and Technology unit. Previously, Volker has exercised a leadership role with Nokia Bell Labs in 6G research and ecosystem and has served as Head of 5G Leadership and Chief Architect of Nokia Mobile Networks. Prior to this, Volker has been active in the Head of Strategy role of Nokia Siemens Networks where he had also served as the Head of the North East Region. In his 10+ year career with Siemens, Volker has held business unit leadership, finance, sales and marketing, services and R&D global roles and senior positions. He has worked as Information Technology Specialist with the World Bank / IFC in the mid-90s. Volker has started his career as a research scientist with German Aerospace Research / DLR. Volker holds a Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in Electrical Engineering from Technische Hochschule (TH) Karlsruhe in Germany and is a graduate of the Executive Development Program at Harvard Business School.
Falko Dressler
organizer
Falko Dressler is full professor and Chair for Telecommunication Networks at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Erlangen in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Dressler has been associate editor-in-chief for IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing and Elsevier Computer Communicationsas well as an editor for journals such as IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. He has been chairing conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiSys, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE VNC, IEEE GLOBECOM. He authored the textbooks Self-Organization in Sensor and Actor Networkspublished by Wiley & Sons and Vehicular Networking published by Cambridge University Press. He has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer as well as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Dressler is an IEEE Fellow as well as an ACM Distinguished Member. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He has been serving on the IEEE COMSOC Conference Council and the ACM SIGMOBILE Executive Committee. His research objectives include adaptive wireless networking (sub-6GHz, mmWave, visible light, molecular communication) and wireless-based sensing with applications in ad hoc and sensor networks, the Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems.
Marco Ajmone Marsan
organizer
He received his secondary education degree from the Liceo Classico Massimo d’Azeglio of Torino in 1969.
He received a Master Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in 1974 and a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978.
From 1974 to 1987 he was teaching and doing research at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni of the Politecnico di Torino, first as a researcher and then as an associate professor.
In 1987 he was appointed Full Professor of Computer Science at the Computer Science Department of the University of Milan.
From 1990 to 2021 he has been a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of the Politecnico di Torino.