Keynotes
| Dr. Tohru Asami (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International) | |
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Dr. Tohru Asami received B.E. degree and M.E. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoto University in 1974 and 1976 respectively, and Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 2005. In 1976, he joined KDD (KDDI). Since that time, he has been working in several research areas such as UNIX-based data communication systems, network management systems (especially expert systems for transmission line faults), etc. After C.E.O. of KDDI R&D Labs. Inc., in 2006, he moved to The University of Tokyo as a professor of Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. Since 2017, he has been President of Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan. He is a member of the IEEE and IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan). From 2003 to 2005, he was a vice chairman of the board of directors of Information System Society inIEICE (IEICE-ISS). |
| Prof. Nen-Fu (Fred) Huang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) | |
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Prof. Nen-Fu (Fred) Huang received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, in 1986. He is now serving as the Dean of EE/CS College of NTHU. From 1997-2000, he was the Chairman of Department of Computer Science, NTHU and since 2008, he is a Distinguished Professor of NTHU. From 2015-2016, he was the director of Computer and Communication Research Center (CCRC) of NTHU. His current research interests include Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks, Smart Agriculture and agriculture blockchain, AI-based Big data Analysis for MOOCs courses, network security, SDN/NFV networks, and network applications/flows identification technologies. He received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the NTHU in 1993, 1998, and 2008, the Outstanding University/Industrial Collaboration Award from Ministry of Education, Taiwan in 1998, and Outstanding IT people Award from ITmonth, ROC in 2002. He received the Technology Transfer Award from National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan in 2004. He received the Technology Creative Award from Computer and Communication Research Center (CCRC), NTHU in 2005, and the Outstanding University/Idustrial Collaboration Award from the NTHU in 2010. He is the founder of Broadweb Corp., (www.broadweb.com) and from 2002 to 2006, he served as the CEO/Chairman of Broadweb, which was acquired by TrendMicro, an international security company, in 2013. He is also the founder of ShareCourse, an AI-based MOOCs platform (www.sharecourse.net), which provides MOOC courses including IoT, AI, Big Data Analysis, FinTech, Robot related courses. Dr. Huang has published more than 200 journal and conference papers, including more than 50 papers in IEEE INFOCOM/ICC/GLOBECOM flag-ship conferences. Dr. Huang also has granted/pending more than 60 patents. He is a fellow of the BCS (British Computer Society) and a senior member of the IEEE. |
| Prof. Choong Seon Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea) | |
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Prof. Choong Seon Hong (hereafter CS) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, in 1983, 1985, respectively. In 1988, he joined KT, where he worked on Broadband Networks as a member of the technical staff. From September 1993, he joined Keio University, Japan. CS received the Ph.D. degree at Keio University in March 1997. Since September 1999, CS has worked as a professor of the department of computer science and engineering, Kyung Hee University. And CS is now serving as the Dean for Office of Information Services, Kyung Hee University. CS has served as a General Chair, TPC Chair/Member, or an Organizing Committee Member for International conferences such as NOMS, IM, APNOMS, E2EMON, CCNC, ADSN, ICPP, DIM, WISA, BcN, TINA, SAINT, ICOIN, ICCE, ICUMU, ICUIMC, ICDC, ISPLC, ICC, Globecom and many other international conferences. CS had also served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, International Journal of Network Management, Journal of Communications and Networks, and is serving an Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine and International Journal of Network Management. CS's research interests include Future Internet, Heterogeneous network, Network Management, Service Management, Network Security, Internet Services and Intelligent Edge Computing. CS published 180 international journal papers and 260 international conference papers. |
| Mr. Ray Budavari (Networking and Security Business Unit, VMware, Inc) | |
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Ray Budavari is a founding member of the Networking and Security Business Unit (NSBU) at VMware and has worked at VMware for over 8 years on networking, security and cloud technologies. He focuses on all areas related to NSX as a platform architect including emerging technologies and is also engaged closely with the VMware Japan team supporting NSX in region. As a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-NV) and VCIX-NV #001 Ray was the first person to obtain certification in the Network Virtualization track. In previous positions at VMware, as a Staff Solutions Architect he focused on the design and implementation of large scale cloud environments and working with VMware's largest Service Provider and Enterprise customers across the world. Prior to VMware, Ray held a number of technical and architecture roles at Telstra Corporation, Australia's largest telecommunications company |
| Prof. Kotaro Kataoka (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India) | |
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Kotaro Kataoka is an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad as well as a Senior Researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC. He has been a member of Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives (AI3) project and Widely Integrated Distributed Environment (WIDE) project for research on Satellite based Internet, Post-Disaster Networking and etc. since 2000. He also served as an Expert of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for facilitating India-Japan collaborations under JICA FRIENDSHIP project between 2012 and 2019. His research interest covers Internet Architecture, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Blockchain and any fun applications. |