Mau-Chung Frank Chang

President, National Chiao Tung University

Dr. Mau-Chung Frank Chang is presently the President of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. Previously, he was the Chairman and Wintek Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA (1997-2015).

Before joining UCLA, he was the Assistant Director and Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory of Rockwell International Science Center (1983-1997), Thousand Oaks, California. In this tenure, he developed and transferred the AlGaAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and BiFET (Planar HBT/MESFET) integrated circuit technologies from the research laboratory to the production line (later became Conexant Systems and Skyworks). The HBT/BiFET productions have grown into multi-billion dollar businesses and have dominated the cell phone power amplifier and front-end module markets for the past twenty years (currently exceeding 10 billion units/year and exceeding 50 billion units in the last decade).

Throughout his career, Dr. Chang's research has primarily focused on the research & development of high-speed semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for RF and mixed-signal radio, radar and imaging system applications. He invented multiband,   reconfigurable RF-Interconnects for Chip-Multi-Processor (CMP) inter-core communications and inter-chip CPU-to-Memory communications. He was the 1st to demonstrate a CMOS active imager at sub-mm-Wave (180GHz) based on a Time-Encoded Digital Regenerative Receiver. He also pioneered the development of self-healing 57-64GHz radio-on-a-chip (DARPA's HEALICs program) with embedded sensors, actuators and self-diagnosis/curing capabilities; and ultra low phase noise VCO (F.O.M. < -200dBc/Hz) with the invented Digitally Controlled Artificial Dielectric (DiCAD) embedded in CMOS technologies to vary its transmission-line permittivity in real-time (up to 20X) for realizing reconfigurable multiband/mode radios in (sub-)mm-Wave frequencies. He realized the first CMOS PLL for Terahertz operation at 550GHz and devised the first tri-color CMOS active imager at 180-500GHz based on a Time-Encoded Digital Regenerative Receiver and the first 3-dimensional SAR imaging radar with sub-centimeter resolution at 144GHz.

Dr. Chang is the Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China, and the Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors. He is also a Fellow of IEEE. He has received numerous awards including Rockwell's Leonardo Da Vinci Award (Engineer of the Year, 1992), IEEE David Sarnoff Award (2006), Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Award (2008), CESASC Life-Time Achievement Award (2009) and John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers' Council (2014).

Dr. Chang earned his B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University (1972); M.S. in Materials Science from National Tsing Hua University (1974); Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (1979).

Joakim Sorelius

Head of 5G Architecture, Business Unit Network Products, Ericsson

Kei Sakaguchi

Dep. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Prof. Kei Sakaguchi received the M.E. degree in Information Processing from Tokyo Institute Technology in 1998, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute Technology in 2006. Currently, he is working at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan as a Professor and at the same time he is a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer HHI in Germany. He received the Outstanding Paper Awards from SDR Forum and IEICE in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and three Best Paper Awards from IEICE communication society in 2012, 2013, and 2015. He also received the Tutorial Paper Award from IEICE communication society in 2006. He served as a TPC co-chair in the IEEE 5G Summit in 2016, a General co-chair in the IEEE WDN-5G in 2017, and a Industrial Workshop co-chair in the IEEE Globecom in 2017. His current research interests are in 5G cellular networks, millimeter-wave communications, and wireless energy transmission. He is a member of IEICE and IEEE.

Li-Fung Chang

Chief Architect at the 5G Technology Program Office, DoIT, MOEA

Dr. Li Fung Chang is the Chief Architect (2015-present) of the national 5G program funded by the DoIT/MoEA in Taiwan. In this role, she is responsible for setting up 5G master plan, strategy direction for this program as well as providing technical consultation and guidance to the engineering teams working under this project. Prior to this position, she was a Senior Director of Engineering at Broadcom Corp, - Mobile and Wireless Group. Dr. Chang is a veteran from AT&T research Labs and Telcordia. In 2001, she joined Mobilink Telecom (acquired by Broadcom in 2002) to start her career in cellular SOC design/implementation and commercialization. She has led the Broadcom baseband 2G/3G/HSPA+ /TD-SCDMA designs and managed Broadcom baseband modem system groups across multiple sites (San Diego, Irvine, Sunnyvale, New Jersey, Hsin-Chu Taiwan and Shanghai) to support multi-mode modem design including 4G LTE and LTE-A.

Dr. Chang has personally driven the advanced receiver designs and baseband technology advancements for Broadcom’s baseband solutions. She had also managed teams responsible for chipset architecture definition for Broadcom mobile SOC, pre-chip performance estimation of the multi-media subsystem, memory subsystem QoS, power estimation for different use cases, audio subsystem designs and performance, system design for PMU (power management unit).

Dr. Chang holds over 85 US patents and many international patents in the area of wireless communications. She is a Chair Professor with NCTU (National Chiao Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan), fellow of the IEEE, recipient of the 2004 Asian American Engineer of the Year Award, 2008 Braodcom Distinguished Engineer Award, member of the Phi Tau Phi Chinese honor society, member of the IEEE and member of the CIE GNYC chapter.

Eric Chen

Founder & CTO, Relay 2

As Relay2’s Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Eric is responsible for leading the company’s product development and technology solutions to support business strategy.

He founded Relay2 in 2011 with the vision of the next generation cloud controller as a platform. He was the CEO until 2013 and has led the company from its birth through the early stages. Prior to Relay2, Eric was a senior member of the CTO Office at Nokia Networks Systems and was granted one US and International patent during his tenure at Nokia. Previously, he was a senior software engineering manager at Asus Computer International, Tahoe Networks, and Cisco Systems, Inc.

Eric holds a B.S. degree from National Taiwan University as well as an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University.

Mitch Tseng

Managing Member Tseng InfoServ, LLC

Dr. Mitch TSENG is a veteran in the international in communication standards community. He had been leading the development of various telecommunication standards in TIA, 3GPP2, and 3GPP through Nortel Networks and Nokia for 15 years. His latest passion is to promote IoT Services, especially in the areas of Industrial IoT (IIoT), Vehicular Telematics (VT), and Services expanded from the Home Domain., He has served multiple leadership positions in many international industrial and standards forums. He is now the Chair of TIA Engineering Committee TR-48 (Vehicular Telematics) and the Chair of the Innovation Task Group of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He is also a Vice Chair of the Architecture Working Group in oneM2M, which is focusing on developing standards for M2M Service Layers. Dr. Tseng received his BSEE degree from Tatung Institute of Technology (now Tatung University); and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Arturo Azcorra

Director, IMDEA Networks Institute and University Carlos III of Madrid

Arturo Azcorra received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad PolitÈcnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1986 and his PhD from the same university in 1989. In 1993, he obtained an MBA with honors from Instituto de Empresa. 

He is the founder of the international research center IMDEA Networks, and currently is its Director, with a double affiliation as Full Professor at  University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M).

He is an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM SIGCOMM Member. He has been visiting researcher at MIT and UC Berkeley, among other research institutions. Since 2014 to date he is the Chairman of the Expert Advisory Board of "Networld 2020" European Technology platform and a member of the Partnership Board of the European 5G PPP. Since 2015 to date he is the Vicepresident of the 5TONIC Laboratory for the development of 5G Technologies.

He has participated in and directed 53 research and technological development projects, including European ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS and IST programs. Azcorra has coordinated the EU project 5G-TRANSFORMER, 5G-CROSSHAUL, TRILOGY-2 and CARMEN, and the CONTENT, E-NEXT and E-NET European Networks of Excellence.

He has served as a Program Committee Member in many international conferences, including several editions of IEEE PROMS, IDMS, QofIS, ACM CoNEXT and IEEE INFOCOM. He is the founder of the ACM CoNEXT conference series and was the general chair of its first eddition. He has published over 100 scientific papers in books, international magazines and conferences.

In addition to his scientific achievements, Dr. Azcorra has a relevant track record of research management. He was deputy Vicerrector of Academic Infrastructures at U. Carlos III from 2000 to 2007. He served as Director General for Technology Transfer and Corporate Development at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation from 2009 to 2010, and then appointed Director General of CDTI (Spanish agency for industrial research from 2010 to 2012.

Javan Erfanian

Distinguished Member, Technology at Bell Mobility, Canada

Javan Erfanianis Distinguished Member of Technology at Bell Mobility, Canada, and primes end to end wireless technology strategic direction. He has been the Co-Lead of NGMN 5G initiative, the Chief Editor of the NGMN 5G White Paper, and the Lead of the NGMN Verticals Requirements initiative. He is currently the Vice Chair of NGMN 5G Board Committee. Javan studied at the Universities of Calgary and Toronto in Canada, with research publications and many citations. He has taught many academic courses. Javan was a recipient of IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, an author and editor of IEEE Communications Society Wireless Engineering Book of  Knowledge, and an IEEE Comsoc Distinguished Speaker for many years. He has been a friend of 5G initiative in Taiwan, and a regular contributor, for the past few years.