Dr. 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 as an associate editor for IEEE ITS Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Farokh Atashzar is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University (NYU). He is also with NYU WIRELESS. Prior to joining NYU, Atashzar was a senior scientist in the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK, sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. From February 2017 to August 2018, he served as a postdoctoral scientist at Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) center. His many awards included the highly-competitive NSERC Fellowship in 2018. He was ranked among the top “5” applicants in Canada for the 2018 NSERC PDF competition in the Electrical and Computer Engineering sector.  Recently he has received an NSF-RAPID award to conduct research on the topic of smart wearable for detecting health anomalies using machine intelligence. He has recently received an NSF-FDA award to conduct collaboration with the medical and regulatory sectors for designing novel computational models with the goal of analyzing the communication fluency between the central and peripheral nervous systems in post-stroke patients. He serves as the associate editor on several journals, including IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters for the Human-Centered Robotics and Automation sector. His research is focused on the area of human-machine interfacing through peripheral and central biosignals and human-robot interaction in the context of robotic neurorehabilitation.

Kumar Balachandran is an Expert on Wireless Communication Networks with Ericsson Research with 28 years of professional experience. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Regional Engineering College in Trichy and graduated in 1992 with an M.S. and a Ph.D in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has worked for Ericsson for 25 years and has expertise in a variety of topics spanning systems engineering, signal processing, physical and MAC layers and radio resource management. He has extensive experience in spectrum topics and has contributed his technical expertise to the introduction of a number of cellular bands. He was an active participant in the specification of CBRS and is currently engaged with the 6GHz AFC work in cross-industry multi-stakeholder discussions. He has served on the FCCs Technological Advisory Council as a Subject Matter Expert on a variety of topics for many years. For the last two years, he has also been working on security, reliability, and resilience in cellular networks. Kumar holds over 100 US patents and is well published.

Aleksandar D. Damnjanovic received Doctor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the George Washington University in 2000. He joined Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc in San Diego in 2000, where he worked on cdma2000 base station controller development. In 2003, he joined Qualcomm Inc, San Diego, where he worked on standardization and implementation of 3GPP 3G, 4G and 5G cellular standards. His research interests include interference management, medium access, shared spectrum, network MIMO, and private and relay networks. He currently attends ETSI BRAN and is Multefire Alliance (MFA) radio working group Chair.

Deepak Das has 20 years of experience in telecom and wireless networking technologies.

During this time, he was part of the pioneering MIMO-focused R&D and Standards activities at Bell Labs, has designed and deployed mobile broadband infrastructure solutions for top-tier operators at Airvana (now part of Commscope), and brought innovative device and network test solutions to market for Azimuth Systems (now part of Anritsu). At Federated Wireless he has helped pioneer CBRS Spectrum-sharing as a Cloud service as their Chief Cloud Architect, and more recently has been driving 5G Private Networks solutions and strategy as Vice President of Solutions.

He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Colorado, Boulder, numerous IEEE journal and conference publications and patents in wireless access, small-cell technologies, device testing and Cloud-based networking services.

Sujit Dey is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, where he heads the Mobile Systems Design Laboratory, which is developing innovative technologies in mobile cloud computing, adaptive multimedia and networking, green computing and communications, and predictive and prescriptive analytics to enable future applications in connected health, immersive multimedia, smart cities, and smart factories. He is the Director of the Center for Wireless Communications, and the Director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at UCSD. Dr. Dey served as the Faculty Director of the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center from 2013-2015, and as the Chief Scientist, Mobile Networks, at Allot Communications from 2012-2013. He founded Ortiva Wireless in 2004, where he served as its founding CEO and later as CTO and Chief Technologist until its acquisition by Allot Communications in 2012. Prior to Ortiva, he served as the Chair of the Advisory Board of Zyray Wireless until its acquisition by Broadcom in 2004, and as an advisor to multiple companies including ST Microelectronics and NEC. Prior to joining UCSD in 1997, he was a Senior Research Staff Member at NEC C&C Research Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991. Dr. Dey has co-authored more than 250 publications, and a book on low-power design. He holds 18 U.S. and 2 international patents, resulting in multiple technology licensing and commercialization. He has been a recipient of six IEEE/ACM Best Paper Awards, and has chaired multiple IEEE conferences and workshops. Dr. Dey is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Amitabha (Amitava) Ghosh  (amitava.ghosh@nokia.com) is a Nokia Fellow and Head, Radio Interface Group at Nokia Bell Labs. He joined Motorola in 1990 after receiving his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.  Since joining Motorola he worked on multiple wireless technologies starting from IS-95, cdma-2000, 1xEV-DV/1XTREME, 1xEV-DO, UMTS, HSPA, 802.16e/WiMAX and 3GPP LTE. He has 60 issued patents, has written multiple book chapters and has authored numerous external and internal technical papers. He is currently working on 3GPP LTE-Advanced and 5G technologies. His research interests are in the area of digital communications, signal processing and wireless communications. He is the recipient of 2016 IEEE Stephen O. Rice and 2017 Neal Shephard prize, member of IEEE Access editorial board and co-author of the book titled “Essentials of LTE and LTE-A”.

Walter Greenleaf PhD is a neuroscientist and a medical technology developer working at Stanford University. With over three decades of research and product development experience in the fields of digital medicine and medical virtual reality technology, Walter is considered a leading authority.

Walter is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Innovation Center and serves on the Science Advisory Board of several medical product companies.

Ali Khayrallah has been with Ericsson in various research positions, presently in Santa Clara, CA, where he is engineering director, and earlier in Research Triangle Park, NC. He leads a team shaping future wireless technology. He has contributed to the development of 5G, 4G, 3G, Bluetooth, mobile satellite etc. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware. His personal research interest is in information theory and its applications to wireless. He received a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.Eng. from the American University of Beirut. He holds over 100 patents and received the Ericsson inventor of the year award.

Julius Kusuma is a research scientist at Facebook Connectivity, aiming to help bring more people to a faster internet. At Facebook, he works on technologies for rural connectivity and wireless networks, including wireless backhaul, mmWave and Wi-Fi. Prior to Facebook, he was a research program manager at Schlumberger Research, where he worked on subsurface and subsea connectivity technologies. Julius received his doctorate from MIT in 2006, where he was an MIT Presidential Fellow, and also attended UC Berkeley where he received the Demetri Angelakos Memorial Award, and Purdue University.

Jim Mains is a seasoned telecommunications executive with over 20 years of experience in solution development and delivery for the mobile industry involving communication technology and applications.

Currently, Jim is CEO of Shoelace Wireless, cooperative networking and security software startup focused on intelligent hybrid mobility, edge-based solutions that provide on-device traffic control and security/privacy to ensure the best Consumer QoE while simultaneously reducing Operator networking costs and providing new monetization opportunities.

Dr. Preston F. Marshall is Principle Wireless Architect for Google Wireless, responsible for spectrum access technology. He has been a primary motivator for the CBRS initiative, among other efforts. He has been heavily involved in wireless technology and policy, including: Deputy Director of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California, a Research Professor at USC’s Electrical Engineering Department, a contributor to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) spectrum study that led to the CBRS band, and Program Manager with DARPA. He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of the CBRS Alliance and chairs the Wireless Innovation Forum Spectrum Sharing Subcommittee. His most recent book was “Three Tier Shared Spectrum, Shared Infrastructure, and a Path to 5G”, was released (by Cambridge University Press), as well as two prior books on Cognitive Radio

Jim Misener is Senior Director, Product Management and the Global C-V2X Ecosystem Lead for Qualcomm.  He develops and executes Qualcomm’s C-V2X deployment strategy across all global regions and works with roadside and automotive stakeholders, enabling software/hardware stack suppliers and internal teams to accomplish broad C-V2X deployment.  Previously at Qualcomm, Jim led the automotive standards team and C-V2X was a major emphasis as well.

In addition to his roles at Qualcomm, Jim serves as a 5GAA board member, ITS California board member, the SAE C-V2X Technical Committee Chair and is active in TRB, which involves serving as an ITS Committee member, Vehicle-Highway Automation committee member and Automated Vehicle Symposium Enabling Technologies session organizer.  Jim also serves as an Advisory Council member to the Carnegie Melon University/University of Pennsylvania/Ohio State National University Transportation Center, Mobility 21 and on the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Board of Governors.

Jim was an early pioneer in vehicle-highway automation and vehicle safety communication at the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) at UC Berkeley, starting in the mid-90s.  He has served as the PATH Executive Director, Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton, and an independent consultant with clients ranging from Silicon Valley startups, the automotive industry and Federal and State government agencies.  Jim holds BS and MS degrees from UCLA and USC.

In his role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Sanjiv is technology advisor for SANDAG, the San Diego Association of Governments, as the agency develops and deploys equitable and sustainable mobility in the region. He is contributing to projects in data governance and a regional clearinghouse for transportation data, shared new mobility including micromobility and microtransit, dynamic electric charging, and digital broadband equity. 

Sanjiv has over twenty-five years of R&D leadership and management experience in the telecommunication and semiconductor industry. Until 2018, he was VP Engineering and head of Systems Engineering at Qualcomm Corporate Research and Development. He initiated, incubated and led R&D programs at Qualcomm, most recently in autonomous driving, and prior to that in machine learning and context awareness.

He actively participated in the wireless and cellular revolution since 1990. While at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, he helped write the first North American and Global wireless data standards. At Qualcomm, he participated in WiFi standardization and cellular-WiFi interworking. He initiated the R&D program on small cells.

Sanjiv has over 200 granted patents and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Director, Qualcomm Institute / Calit2, UC San Diego Division

Ramesh Rao is the director of the University of California, San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). In 2004, he was appointed the first holder of the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, where he has been a faculty member since 1984. Prior to becoming the Calit2 UCSD division director in 2001, he served as the director of UCSD’s Center for Wireless Communications (CWC).

In addition to directing Calit2 UCSD, Prof. Rao is involved on a day-to-day basis with a wide variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative research initiatives, leading several major projects at Calit2. He has been a lead investigator on dozens of major federal-, state-, foundation-, defense-, and industry-funded grants, including the NIH-funded Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters (WIISARD), Self-Scaling Systems for Mass Casualty Management (WIISARD SAGE), and the Multimedia Telemedical Diagnostic System (STRokE DOC), the NSF-funded Responding to Crises and Unexpected Events (RESCUE) and ResponSphere projects, multiple projects involving cognitive networking, as well as leading several international collaborations. He has authored more than 230 peer-reviewed technical papers on a wide range of research topics in wireless communications including architectures, protocols, performance analysis of computer and communication networks, adaptive systems, energy-efficient communications, disaster management applications and health-related applications, among others. He is currently engaged in numerous projects to bridge emerging technologies with medicine and healthcare and investigating the power of utilizing information technologies to enhance, even transform, healthcare resources, knowledge bases, and outcomes.

John-Ross (JR) Rizzo, M.D., M.S.C.I., is a physician-scientist at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Rusk Rehabilitation, where he serves as Director of Technology and Innovation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with cross-appointments in the Department of Neurology and the Departments of Biomedical & Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (NYU-Tandon School of Engineering). He is also the Associate Director of Healthcare for the renowned NYU Wireless Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU-Tandon. He leads the Visuomotor Integration Laboratory (VMIL), where his team focuses on eye-hand coordination, as it relates to acquired brain injury (ABI), and the REACTIV Laboratory (Rehabilitation Engineering Alliance and Center Transforming Low Vision), where his team focuses on advanced wearables for the sensory deprived and benefits from his own personal experiences with vision loss. He is also the Founder and Chief Medical Advisor of Tactile Navigation Tools, LLC, where he and his team work incessantly to disrupt the assistive technology space for those with visual impairments of all kinds, enhancing human capabilities.

Nambi Seshadri is currently Professor of Practice in the ECE department at UCSD. He is also a distinguished professor at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India. Prior to joining UCSD, from 2000-2016, he was CTO for mobile and wireless at Broadcom Corporation. He was at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Shannon labs from 1986-1999 where he and his colleagues made significant contributions to various generations of wireless communications. He was Awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2018 and was inducted into National Academy of Engineering in 2012.