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New namecards and headings for IEEE TENCON 2018.
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Jun Yu The Deputy Director General of The Department of International Cooperation State Grid Corporation of China Energy Transition and the Best Practice of International Standards Development of SGCC |
| Jun Yu received his dual BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1991 and 1994 respectively. Afterwards he joined China International Trust and Investment Corporation, engaged in the management of power plant construction project. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2000 and then worked at ERCOT for seven years. During this period, he served successively as Supervisor of Market Analysis & Development, Market Architect, and Manager of Business Architecture & Technology. From 2006 to 2011, he became the deputy director general of National Power Dispatching and Communication Center under State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC). From 2011 to 2014, he was the senior vice president of State Grid International Development Limited of SGCC. Currently, he is the deputy director general of the department of international cooperation of SGCC, responsible for the oversea assets operation and international organization business. As one of the key people in SGCC’s international business, Dr. Yu actively involved in SGCC’s international standardization activities, through which, he gains a deep understanding of the needs of standards developers, as well as that of different stakeholders. He has been the IEEE Senior member since 2003 and served as IEEE SA CAG member since 2015. | |
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Takeshi Yamada Vice President, Head of NTT Communication Science Laboratories Communication science as guidance for NTT’s four AI directions |
| Takeshi Yamada received a BSc in Mathematics at University of Tokyo. He joined NTT Electrical Communication Laboratories in 1988. He was a leader of a machine learning research group (2006-2009), an executive manager(2012-2013), and is currently Vice President and Head of NTT Communication Science Laboratories. He received Doctor of Informatics from Kyoto University (2003). He has been studying combinatorial optimization, relational data mining and statistical machine learning. He is also involved in formulating AI research strategies for NTT R&D. | |
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James A. Jefferies 2018 IEEE President & CEO IEEE- Leading the world as a Technical Professional Organization |
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Jim Jefferies retired from AT&T and Lucent Technologies following 33 years in engineering and executive positions including fiber optic cable development and manufacturing, quality assurance, and supply chain management. He managed the engineering teams that delivered the first commercial fiber optic cables for AT&T. He served as logistics vice president, responsible for worldwide supply chain and export planning. He has led teams in major technology transfers, transitions of information technology, and organizational change. He has also worked in the entrepreneurial sector as Chief Operating Officer for USBuild.com in San Francisco, CA, USA. Jim served two separate terms on the IEEE Board of Directors, as well as the 2015 IEEE-USA President. As President of IEEE-USA, Jim supported the expanded focus on public visibility, young professionals, and humanitarian outreach. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska and an MS in Engineering Science from Clarkson University. He attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business as a Sloan Fellow and earned an MS in Management. Jim is a member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu honorary society and a licensed professional engineer (Emeritus). |
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Kyungwhoon Cheun Executive Vice President, Head of R&D, Networks Business, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 5G is reality – Transforming Industries and Lives |
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Kyungwhoon Cheun received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University in 1985. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1987 and 1989, respectively. He served as a professor at the University of Delaware from 1989 to 1991 and then at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) from 1991 to 2014. While at POSTECH, he headed the national ITRC center for Broadband OFDM Multiple Access (BrOMA), an eight-year research program supported by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge and Economy. Aside from his academic achievements, he, as an engineering consultant, has contributed to many break-through innovations in diverse industry areas of wireless communications and audio signal processing. He was on leave at Witechs and NSystems in San Diego where he developed efficient receiver algorithms for WLANs and WCDMA. From 2004 to 2011, he served as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Pulsus Technologies Inc., taking the lead of developing sound processing algorithms and sigma-delta modulation based full digital audio amplifier SoCs. Since 2012, he has been with Samsung Electronics leading research and development for next generation cellular and Wi-Fi networks. Currently he is an Executive Vice President and head of R&D in Network Business, Samsung Electronics. |
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Seok Hee Lee SK hynix Inc., President & Chief Operating Officer Memory-Driven Computing: The Future Evolution of Cognitive IoT Technology |
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Intelligence on demand has been quite pervasive with outbursts of emerging technology breakthroughs leading us to the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The fields of computational intelligence, blockchain, nanotechnology, robotics, intelligent vehicles, and internet-of-things, to name a few, have been changing how we live today and will challenge many innovative minds to bring the things of imagination into everyday reality ever so close. At such intelligence outbreak, the ingenious works with which leading engineers would gather for the event should clearly guide us to the new ways and insights for the exciting era to be unfold.
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Jong Kwan Park SK Telecom, Head of Network Technology R&D Center 5G for Hyper-connected Society |
| As Head of Network Technology R&D Center, Mr. Park is responsible for the research and development of ICT and Network related technology in SK Telecom. He is leading the development of LTE-A, 5G networks and devices, next generation OSS, virtualization, connected car, and quantum cryptography communication technology. He joined SK Telecom in 1997 and has been served as the mobile core network and service specialist for more than 20 years. As leader of Core Network Lab since 2012, he has successfully completed the LTE & LTE-A deployment in South Korea. He also has led the world’s first HD Voice(VoLTE), VoLTE roaming, and NFV commercialization. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Yonsei University in South Korea. |
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