COMMITTEE

Organizing Committee

GENERAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

• Chris Mayer, USA (chris.mayer1@verizon.net)
• Tara Timblin, TeleCommunication Systems, Inc., USA (TTimblin@telecomsys.com)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS

• Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan (yama-m@kansai-u.ac.jp)
• Ana Goulart, Texas A&M University, USA (goulart@tamu.edu)

COMSOC PROJECT MANAGER

• Bridget Erlikh, ComSoc, USA

EXECUTIVE PANEL CHAIR 

• Mike Ryan, Verizon, USA

NFV/SDN SEGMENT CHAIR

• Jason Boswell, Ericsson

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES & TRENDS FOR NEXT GEN NETWORKS PANEL CHAIR

• Carol Davids, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

OPERATIONS PANEL CHAIR

• Martin Guldberg, Verizon Wireless, USA

TREASURER

• Kevin Krantz, Ericsson, USA

TPC MEMBERS

• Masaki Bandai, Sophia University, Japan
• Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy
• Chris Corti, Cisco Systems, USA
• Carold Davids, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Abdallah Farraj, University of Toronto, Canada
• Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
• Takefumi Hiraguri, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan
• Koji Hirata, Kansai University, Japan
• Noriaki Kamiyama, Osaka University/NTT, Japan
• Hideyuki Koto, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
• Takayuki Nishio, Kyoto University, Japan
• Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
• Mohammed Olama, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Gaston Ormazabal, Columbia University, USA
• Dimitri Papadimitriou, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium
• Nishant Pattanaik, Texas A&M University, USA
• Mohit Sethi, NomadicLab, Ericsson Research, Finland
• Hideyuki Shimonishi, NEC, Japan
• Takuji Tachibana, Fukui University, Japan
• Hitoshi Ueno, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan

C Q R Officers (2014-2015)

CHAIR

• Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan

CHAIR-ELECT

• Scott Poretsky, Allot Communications, USA

VICE CHAIR – OPERATIONS

• Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan

VICE CHAIR – PUBLICATIONS

• Wei-Der Yu, San Jose State Univ., USA

SECRETARY

• Michael P. Ryan, Verizon, USA

TREASURER

• Kevin Krantz, Ericsson, USA

ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR

• Kelly Krick, Ericsson, USA

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

• Hiromi Ueda, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
• Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T Labs, USA
• Kenichi Mase, Niigata University, Japan
• Karl Rauscher, USA
• Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University, Japan
• Ray Bonelli, Consultant, USA