Speaker’s Bios
Abhijeet Abhimanyu
Mr. Abhijeet Abhimanyu Masal is a Lead Research Engineer in Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), Chennai, India with 9+ years of experience in wireless standardization. He received the M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication from IIT Bhubaneswar, in 2014. He represents CEWiT in 3GPP RAN1, RAN2 and SA2 and has been contributing to 3GPP since Rel. 13. His research interests include 5G & beyond and 6G wireless communications, signal processing, machine learning in wireless networks. He is presently working on cellular Localization, C-V2X, UAV and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) for 5G and beyond with focus on channel modeling and estimation, new waveforms, massive MIMO, joint sensing and communication techniques and unification of different verticals towards 6G.
A.K. Mittal
Shri A.K. Mittal is associated with TSDSI as Advisor with special focus on standardization in wireless and wireline systems and handles standards related activities of TSDSI in 3GPP and ITU-R.
He began his career in R&D at Indian Telephone Industries Ltd and later joined Department of Telecommunication (DoT), Government of India where he worked in a variety of domains like Satellite Communication, OFC, Microwave, Mobile Networks, Switching Systems, Network Management, Licensing, Regulation, Standards, Testing and Certification etc. He was Head, Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), the technology arm of DoT. He has also headed the National Telecom Institute of Policy Research, Innovation and Training, DoT. He has represented the Government of India in various bilateral and multilateral international meetings.
He did his graduation in Electronics and Communications Engineering in 1976 from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He also holds a Diploma in Management. He has a career of over 47+ years in the field of Telecommunications.
Abhishek Thakur
Abhishek Thakur is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, where he works on 5G Use Cases Lab for BFS, Open-source technologies and FinTech collaboration.
His research interests include multimedia communications, financial inclusion and rural ICT deployments. In his 25 years career, split across industry and academia, he has developed multiple global solutions for both product and services-based organizations.
At 5G Use Cases Lab, he champions the technology horizontals for cross domain network slicing, multi-access edge compute and rural connectivity. Besides pursuing applied academic research in BFS, he is also advising the IT teams of multiple banks. He is passionate about making technology simple and sustainable for the masses.
Abhishek Thakur
Abhishek Thakur is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, where he works on 5G Use Cases Lab for BFS, Open-source technologies and FinTech collaboration.
His research interests include multimedia communications, financial inclusion and rural ICT deployments. In his 24 years career, split across industry and academia, he has developed multiple global solutions for both product and services-based organizations.
At 5G Use Cases Lab, he champions the technology horizontals for cross domain network slicing, multi-access edge compute and rural connectivity. Besides pursuing applied academic research in BFS, he is also advising the IT teams of multiple banks. He is passionate about making technology simple and sustainable for the masses.
Amit Manocha
Amit Manocha is an Industry Advisor with Carrier Technology (Private LTE/5G & LPWAN) expertise. He has 20+ years of experience in various domains like Medical Electronics, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Building Automation, Industrial Automation, Energy & Utility & Telecom. He is a pioneer in implementing digital transformation programs, connected solutions and services along with Data Science capability for business decision making. He has worked with multi-discipline vendors/start-ups (design houses, manufacturers, RF module providers, Certification labs, Application, Platform providers) and met people of CXO levels and translate their vision needs into tangible work packets and identify/define the business values. He is a committee member of DOT 6G Taskforce and shared his experience in the form of articles and white papers as well.
Anindya Saha
Anindya is VP at Tejas Networks, with approximately 26 Years of experience. He is an expert on Software Defined Radios, leading the Baseband and RF system design for 5G Products. In his earlier role as CTO at SaankhyaLabs, he led the design and development of the Baseband and RF subsystems for Saankhya’s products in wireless communication.
He has been instrumental in developing 5G Radio, Broadcast Radio, and SDR Platforms and holds several fundamental patents and publications in this domain.
He is currently the Chairman of the IEEE Communication Society, Bangalore Chapter, a Senior Member of IEEE, and participates in 3GPP, ORAN, and TSDSI standardization activities. He is an alumnus of IISc Bangalore and IIT BHU and previously worked for Texas Instruments and Broadcom.
Arzad Alam Kherani
Dr. Arzad Alam Kherani is currently the Chair of TSDSI SGSS Working Group 2: Applications and Service Layer Standards, AI/ML. He is the Associate Professor (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at IIT, Bhilai. He has worked on broad areas of Computer networks, Queueing systems, Wireless communications. He has also worked for industry for a decade and gained experience with product conceptualization, product design and development, industrial R&D and standardization. He did his Masters and PhD from IISc Bangalore.
Arpan Chattopadhyay
Arpan Chattopadhyay received the B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunication from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2008, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, in 2010 and 2015, respectively.
He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi. Previously, he held a post-doctoral positions with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA, and INRIA/ENS Paris, France. His research interests include wireless communication and networks, networked inference and control, radar signal processing, and online learning.
Ashok Kumar Reddy
Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Senior Member, IEEE, 2014) is currently Director of Engineering at Samsung Research. He received his M.E. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2005. In June 2005, he joined Beceem Communications, which became part of Broadcom later. Here, he was involved in developing physical layer algorithms for the first 4G system based on WiMAX and LTE. Since November 2013, he has been with Samsung R & D Institute India Bangalore, where he currently leads an R & D team that works on 6G PHY technologies. His research interests include algorithm design for the physical layer, performance evaluation of wireless communication systems, sensing and machine learning for communications. He has published 40+ research papers in premier communication forums and has filed 50+ international patents. He received the best paper award at IEEE CCNC, Las Vegas, USA, in 2016, the best paper (third) at IEEE World 5G Forum 2020, and the winner of two challenges at ITU AI/ML 5G Challenge 2022.
Avinash Agarwal
Avinash Agarwal is an ITS Officer of the 1992 batch. He has 29 years of extensive experience in Telecommunications, Information Technology, and Broadcasting while serving in various positions in the Government of India.
Presently, he is posted as Deputy Director General (Convergence & Broadcasting) at Telecommunication Engineering Centre, India’s Standards Setting Organisation.
Previously, as Additional Director General (IT) at Prasar Bharati, he headed various digital transformation initiatives for the twin networks of Doordarshan and All India Radio and also successfully delivered their Global Digital Platform and NewsOnAir Mobile App. This involved live streaming of 230+ radio channels, live TV, text news in multiple languages, podcasts, etc.
He also served as State Head Haryana, BBNL for the roll-out of the BharatNet Project for providing Optical Fibre Cable connectivity to 6000+ Gram Panchayats in Haryana.
Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi obtained his B.Tech in Electronics from IIT Madras in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. After working at AT&T Bell Laboratories for a couple of years, he joined the faculty of his alma mater in 1986. He served as Director, IIT Madras during 2011-22.
Prof Bhaskar was instrumental in the setting up of India’s own Telecom SDO – TSDSI, about a decade ago. During his term as Chair, Prof. Bhaskar grew TSDSI from a “start-up” to a vibrant SDO making its mark on the global stage. He also mentored key technical contributions, especially to 5Gi, that came from IITs and CEWiT.
His areas of specialisation are Communications and Signal Processing. His research work is in Wireless Networks, Modulation, Wireless Data, and Audio and Video Compression. He heads the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, located at the IIT-M Research Park, which is focused on emerging wireless standards and technologies. He is a holder of several patents related to 4G and 5G technologies and was the national coordinator for the project to build an end-to-end 5G Test Bed. He has also served as the Chairperson of TSDSI. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE, and Hon. Fellow of RWTH Aachen, Germany.
Bindoo Srivastava
Bindoo Srivastava is currently responsible for MARCOM and Partner Relations at Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI). She also serves as the MARCOM Chair at oneM2M.
She has previously led Product development activities and managed large system integration programs in Smart Grids/AMI/SCADA domains. She has also contributed to the development of India appropriate standards based on indigenous research and innovations in this space.
She earned her B.E in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (now D.TU) in 1988 and Masters in Electrical Energy Systems from IIT Madras in 1990.
Brejesh Lall
Prof Brejesh Lall is presently the professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and has earlier served as the head of Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management at IITD, and the coordinator of two centers of excellence, viz. Airtel IIT Delhi Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications and Ericsson IIT Delhi 5G Center of Excellence. He is also the in-charge of an IoT laboratory that he set up in collaboration with Samsung and the Co-PI of the Project “Building an end-to-end 5G Test Bed” funded by DoT.
He has mentored 5 startups, in the areas of Virtualization, Geo-fencing, UAV based solutions and recommendation and data mining. He actively participates in building and deploying technology. He has also served as an expert in numerous government and private agencies in aspects related to signal processing.
Chandra R. Murthy
Chandra R. Murthy is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His research interests are in sparse signal recovery, energy harvesting-based communication, performance analysis and optimization of 5G and beyond communications. He has over 90 journal papers and more than 120 conference papers to his credit. One of his papers was the recipient of the Best Paper Awards at NCC 2014 and 2023, and papers coauthored with his students received Student Best Paper Awards at the IEEE ICASSP 2018, IEEE ISIT 2021, and IEEE SPAWC 2022. He is an IEEE Fellow (Class of 2023) and a fellow of the INAE (2023).
Dario Sabella
Dario Sabella works with Intel as Senior Manager Standards and Research, driving new technologies and edge cloud innovation for the advanced systems, involved in standard ecosystem harmonization and coordinating internal alignment on edge computing across SDOs and industry groups. He is the Chairman of ETSI MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) ISG and also acting as company delegate of the 5GAA (5G Automotive Association).
He has also worked in TIM (Telecom Italia group), in the Wireless Access Innovation division, as responsible in various TIM research, experimental and operational activities on OFDMA technologies (WiMAX, LTE, 5G), cloud technologies (MEC) and energy efficiency (for energy saving in TIM’s mobile network). He has authored 40+ publications and 30+ patents in the field of wireless communications, radio resource management, energy efficiency and edge computing, Dario is IEEE senior member and has also organized several international workshops and conferences.
Devaki Chandramouli
Devaki Chandramouli is a Bell Labs Fellow and the Head of North American Standardization with Nokia. She is currently a co-chair for Next G Alliance Steering Group. She is also an SA2 delegate, rapporteur and the leader of 5G system architecture specification in 3GPP. She has led many 3GPP work items as rapporteur. She is a Senior IEEE member, coauthored articles on 5G published by IEEE. She has also published a book titled LTE for Public Safety (Wiley, 2015), and coedited a book titled 5G for the Connected World (Wiley, 2019). She has around 200+ granted patents in wireless communications. She received her B.E. degree in computer science from University of Madras, India, and the M.S. degree in computer science from The University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA.
Divya Mohan
Hey folks, I am Divya Mohan. I work as an Engineering Head @ FK Labs. We are an innovation wing for FK and work on moonshot projects in the areas of Web3, 3D and AR, GenAI.
With a background of building high scale innovative product across multiple domains, I joined FK in 2020 and was steered straight into the “Search Experience and Monetization” team. Our core objectives were to transform the user experience from that of being solely ‘transactional’ into a ‘friendly, intuitive and enhanced’ experience for users. My journey on Web3 started during May 2022 and within a few months, we made history by partnering with Nothing Phone and launching their first ever NFTs on the biggest Web2 Indian ecommerce company that was now ushering in Web3. The Metaverse is now making big strides and our team capitalized on it by introducing Indian consumers to the “Flipverse”, – a Metaverse driven shopping experience to enhance user engagement and we did achieve a 6x growth on it. We achieved this by blending a positive user experience with AR and the results were nothing short of stupendous with many people offering encouraging feedback. This year has been scaling Firedrop Web3 platform for Flipkart.
On the personal front, I am married and am the mother of 9-year-old rambunctious boy. I enjoy spending time with my family and playing with my kid.
Erik Guttman
Erik currently represents Samsung in the 3GPP SA1 “services” and 3GPP SA5 “telecom management” working groups. He previous served as chair of the Services and System Aspects Technical Standards Group of the 3GPP organization (2015-2019). This group is responsible for management of activity within the Services and System Aspects working groups, as well as coordination between 3GPP groups and other standards organizations. Prior to that, he served as the chair of 3GPP SA2 “architecture” working group, which is responsible for the overall 3GPP system technical specification. Erik also served as the IETF SVRLOC and ZEROCONF WG chair and contributed actively to IETF standards in the Internet Area.
He earned a MSCS degree from Stanford University.
Guna B Shekar
Mr Guna B Shekar is a Telecom, Storage & Networking professional with a VLSI design background. He has spent about 18 years at LSI Logic (now Broadcom) and about 5+ years at various Silicon Valley ASIC Startups at various senior management roles. He is currently consulting part time with TSDSI. He is also involved with many other startups working on solving interesting tech problems related to datacentre infrastructure and telecom hardware in general.
GUNJAN DAVE
Ms. Gunjan Dave completed her graduation and post-graduation from the prestigious IIT Roorkee. She further pursued an MBA from the esteemed Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai. In 1987, she joined the Indian Telecom Services and dedicated more than three decades of her career to MTNL Mumbai, serving in various capacities. Throughout her tenure at MTNL, Ms. Gunjan Dave showcased her versatility by working across multiple units, including IT, Planning, Installation, Broadband, Mobile, and Call Center operations. She also held the position of Area In charge. Her contributions were instrumental in handling the planning of new exchanges, telecom traffic routing, and the establishment of computerised digital trunk exchanges in Mumbai, as well as the introduction of radio paging services during the early 90s.
With an extensive background in IT, Ms. Gunjan Dave successfully implemented numerous IT-enabled systems such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Billing for Mobile, Network Management Systems (NMS) for exchanges, and Fraud Management Systems. She also played a pivotal role in software development for in-house usage, as well as the creation of customer-friendly applications. Notably, she was involved in significant projects, including the Mumbai Wi-Fi, IT security audits, including SOX audits, and the management of MTNL’s data center. From March 2022 to April 2023, Ms. Gunjan Dave served as the Senior DDG (Senior Deputy Director General) for Gujarat LSA (Licensed Service Area), overseeing Gujarat and the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. During her tenure, she led the successful launch of 5G services in Gujarat and implemented the CBUD app, along with other Government initiatives.
Continuing her upward trajectory, Ms. Gunjan Dave assumed the role of Member (Technology) at DCC (Digital Communications Commission), Ministry of Telecom starting from June 1st, 2023. In this prestigious position, she is responsible for initiating policy decisions, driving technological advancements and strategic decision-making in the telecommunications sector.
G Narendra Nath
Narendra Nath Gangavarapu, is working as Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat with responsibilities for ensuring cyber security by different entities of India in the government, public and private sectors. He is also driving the initiative on the Trusted Telecom Supply Chain. He is the Coordinating Chair for India for the QUAD Critical and Emerging Technologies Working Group focused on diversifying 5G supply chains, ORAN and obtaining leadership positions in emerging technologies of Biotechnology, AI and Quantum Technologies. He drives the cyber security R&D fund and, in this capacity, NSCS has supported Cybersecurity R&D projects including in emerging technology areas. Prior to this he was Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunications, Government of India with overall responsibilities for the policy formulation and implementation and matters pertaining to Telecom network security of India.
He was a Director on the Boards of Tata Telecommunications and NIXI and on the Governing Council of TSDSI.
He holds a Masters in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with specialization in VLSI design.
Hemant Rath
Hemant is a Senior Member of IEEE, holds MTech & Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, and BE from VSSUT Burla, Odisha. He has more than 25 years of experience in academics, research, and industry. At present, Hemant is a Principal Scientist at TCS Research, Bhubaneswar. His research interests include NextGen Network Design, Software Defined Networks, Industrial Applications, QoS in Networks, Network Security, etc. He has authored many research papers, co-authored a book, delivered several talks, and has more than 70 granted patents. Hemant has received several awards including the Distinguished Engineer Award in TCS. Hemant is also active in standardization activities in the areas of networking and communications. He is teaching at IIT Bhubaneswar as an Adjunct Faculty since July 2019.
Hideaki Takahashi
Hideaki Takahashi received the B.E and M.E degrees from Kyoto University. He is currently a Senior Specialist Standardization in Nokia. He has around 23 years of experience in the telecommunication and automotive industries, including NTT DOCOMO, a Japanese mobile network operator and DENSO, an automotive supplier. He has been working on mobile telecommunication standards since LTE and onwards as a delegate in 3GPP, covering RAN architecture (RAN WG3), radio protocols (RAN WG2) and RAN project management (TSG-RAN). He is currently an SA1 delegate from Nokia and working on service requirements and system architecture design for 6G.
Huzur Saran
Prof Huzur Saran is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science IIT Delhi. He is currently the Head of the Bharti School of Telecom Technology & also co-ordinates the Centre of Excellence in CyberSecurity at IIT Delhi. He has served in the past as the Head of the Computer Science Dept and the Amar Nath & Shashi Khosla School of IT, and the Computer Services Centre at IIT Delhi.
Prior to joining IIT Delhi in 1990, he did his Ph. D in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and, a B.Tech from IIT Delhi in 1983. His research is focused on Wireless Networks, Computer Systems & Security and Algorithms.
Prof Saran has been actively working in 5G wireless technologies. He is currently a PI at IITD for the 5G Testbed Project funded by the Deportment of Telecom. During 2000-2002 he was a Visiting Professor at the Information Systems Lab, Stanford where he worked on the media access control layer of an early 4G wireless system. Dr Saran was a consultant in the past with AT&T Research and Lucent Bell Labs in the area of Network Performance Analysis. In the area of CyberSecurity, he was an adviser to Solidcore a Software Security Startup which was acquired by Mcafee.
Ishan Vaishnavi
Dr Ishan Vaishnavi is a 5G, 6G expert with 20 years of experience in technology vision, management, and leadership. In his current role at Nokia – Munich, he is leading a team focused on the monetization aspects of 5G and beyond networks based on supporting solutions that increase revenue on one hand in addition to automation solutions that decrease TCO on the other. He has been a key promoter of softwarization of the telco industry towards achieving both those goals. This has led key breakthroughs, including the development of micro-services based telco management architecture, network slicing as a result of achieving cloud-native 5G architecture, closed loop design for network automation and more recently on API exposure to 3rd parties. Over his career, he has contributed these and other topics to 3GPP SA2/SA5/SA6 and ETSI ZSM and other relevant standards bodies.
He is a highly skilled and experienced professional with a proven track record of creating business driven technology changes and is passionate creating real-world impact that helps telco industry evolve and thrive.
Jishnu Aravindakshan
Jishnu Aravindakshan is Principal Architect Technology in CTO’s office, Tejas Networks India Limited and has 19 years’ experience in the field of Telecom.
He obtained his BTech in electronics and communication from NIT, Calicut in 2001 and Masters from IISc, Bangalore in 2004. Subsequently he joined Tejas Networks and is responsible for deciding the long-term roadmap of the company. He has represented Tejas at ITU-T SG15 and has contributed towards the development of ITU-T G.8032 and MPLS-TP standards. His present interests include 5G-Adv and 6G. He is actively involved in 5G standardization through TSDSI (Telecom Standards Development Society, India) at ITU-R WP5D, and as Individual Member at 3GPP RAN1/SA2. He was closely involved in the design of 3G/4G backhaul architecture with major Indian and International operators. He successfully represented India and TSDSI during the IMT2020 standardization activity for inclusion of LMLC (Low Mobility Large Cell) as a 5G evaluation configuration in Rural eMBB. He was the founding Chairman of Optical Access and Transport Study Group (SG3) in TSDSI which developed CPRI Fronthaul standard. Later he continued as the Vice Chairman of Study Group – Networks (SGN) and coordinated the effort from TSDSI for including a 5G Radio Interface Technology (RIT) or 5Gi from India in ITU-R IMT 2020. Recently, he as part of Indian delegation contributed to ITU-R IMT-2030 Framework/Vision document.
He has filed 18 patents and was awarded the best paper award by IETE in 2006. He has edited the Springer’s CSI Transaction on ICT on a special issue on “Wireless in the future” as a guest editor in March 2019.
Kiran Kuchi
Professor Kiran Kuchi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He started a company called WiSig Networks Pvt Ltd, which focuses on advanced 5G technology. He is a key member of TSDSI and Bharat 6G Alliance, leading efforts to develop 6G standards in India at 3GPP and ITU-R WP 5D. Prof. Kuchi works closely with the Government of India to shape the country’s 6G plans. He has also authored over 200 international patents, including crucial ones used in 2G to 5G standards and products.
Madeleine Noland
Madeleine Noland is the President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. Widely respected for her consensus-building leadership style, she chaired the ATSC technology group that oversees the ATSC 3.0 next-generation broadcast standard before being named ATSC President in May 2019.
Previously, she chaired various ATSC 3.0-related specialist groups, ad hoc groups and implementation teams since 2012.
A 20-year industry veteran, Noland held key technology management and standards roles at Back channel media Inc., Telvue Corp. and LG Electronics.
Mahesh Nayaka
Mr Mahesh Nayaka Mysore Annaiah is the Assistant Vice President – Global Standardization Team at Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited. He is currently serving as the Chair – Services & Solutions Study Group in TSDSI.
Mahesh has over 25+ years of experience in the Telecom/ Wireless Domain for the Standardization, System Engineering, Product Management, Product Development, Pre Sales, Architecting, designing test cases, etc,. He has 10+ patents in his name. He has developed Base stations, devices and network entities for GSM, WCDMA, Mobile WiMAX, XG-PHS, LTE, 5G, WiFi, Mobile Satellite Systems, VSATs. Currently, actively participating in driving 6G technologies and beyond.
Manikantan Srinivasan
Dr. Manikantan Srinivasan, currently works at NEC Corporation India Pvt Ltd (NECI) and holds a title as Assistant General Manager. At NECI Dr. Manikantan is involved in 5G and beyond related research, O-RAN alliance architecture based 5G solution development, Telecom Security, 3GPP standardization initiatives and Cyber Threat Intelligence support. Dr. Manikantan was an adjunct faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He has taught courses related to Computer Networks, Network Security, Wireless Communications and Advanced Wireless Communications and Networks. As part of Technology research his interests are in application of exploring approaches for efficient and secure disaggregated mobile network deployments, Digital Twins support using 5G and beyond networks, Quantum Cryptography and Game theory application for next generation Mobile Cellular networks. His industry experience spans 23 4 + years in the domain of networking and network security. He is a senior member of IEEE, a Comsoc member and an ACM member.
Mombasawala Mohmedsaeed
Mombasawala Mohmedsaeed is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Keysight Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. heading the team of Industry Segment Experts (ISEs) in commercial communications, network security & testing, memory & peripherals interconnects as well as automotive & energy solutions. Mombasawala has 33 years of experience in various technology domains in the field of electronics, 5G, RF, network security, high speed digital & optical interface technologies, automotive electronics, and network operations.
Mombasawala earned his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from SVNIT- Surat. He received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management (Marketing) from IGNOU.
Mombasawala’s proficiency in English and Hindi language communication coupled with his immense knowledge on Science, Engineering and General Trends makes him a strong orator and interface to external world for Keysight. Mombasawala has strong strategic thinking, is visionary and is a man of integrity. He is very adaptive and strong team worker. He is also known for perfect execution of complex projects in Industry. Mombasawala has an excellent skill on handling multiple tasks at the same time.
Mombasawala’s hobbies include reading, listening to music and watching science fiction movies. Mombasawala is married to Shamim and has a son named Maaz.
Nagendra Bykampadi
Nagendra Bykampadi is Head of Security at Rakuten Symphony. He is also currently serving as the vendor co-chair of the O-RAN Alliance Security Work Group (WG11).
Nagendra brings more than 28 years of experience in the wireless industry. He has extensive experience in security, having worked in various capacities as a 3GPP and O-RAN security standards specialist, security PLM, Security Architect, Security Specifications Engineer, and product technical lead.
In his current role in Rakuten Symphony, he leads a team of security professionals that provides baseline security requirements, security architecture guidelines and security testing support for Rakuten Symphony’s cloud native products. He also leads a team that studies and prototypes security requirements and security controls for next-gen telco architecture.
He is also serving as the co-chair of the O-RAN Alliance Security Work Group (WG11) that’s defining security specifications for O-RAN architecture. He has been actively engaged in 3GPP and O-RAN Alliance security standardization since 2014.
Neelesh Mehta
Neelesh B. Mehta is a Professor and Chair of the Electrical Communication Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. His research group focuses on the design, modeling, analysis, and optimization of 5G and beyond wireless systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, INSA, INAE, NASI. He is a recipient of the K. K. Birla Award, IIT Roorkee’s Khosla National Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, DST-Swarnajayanti Fellowship, and NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award. He serves on the IEEE ComSoc Nominations and Elections committee. He has served on IEEE ComSoc’s Board of Governors, Awards Committee, and the Steering Committee and Executive Editorial Committees of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
NISHI MUNDRA
Ms. Nishi Mundra is GM-IoT Platforms and Applications for Vodafone Idea IoT Business. Her mandate is to formulate Integrated IoT Platform and Application Strategy, Product GTM and pricing to drive revenue growth across various horizontals. She also heads the Vi IoT Lab which is an initiative run in collaboration with C-DoT to promote interoperability and standardization in the Indian IoT Ecosystem.
Ms. Nishi carries 12+years of Product Development and Management experience in Defence Technology, Building Automation and IoT. She has hands on experience with working on various IoT Platforms including Microsoft Azure, PTC Thingworx and more.
She is passionate about learning new technologies and applying them to help organizations grow in their path of digital transformation. In her leisure time, she likes travelling to unexplored places and experience local culture.
She is an engineering Graduate from MBM Engineering College, JNVU Jodhpur.
N Mohanram
N Mohanram has more than 30 years of experience in research, technology development and infrastructure deployment & operations in the domains of high-performance computing, highspeed communications, and financial technology. He is currently the Director General of Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) – India’s Telecom SDO.
He was earlier the Chief Executive Officer of NeSL Asset Data Limited (NADL), a fintech startup company functioning as an Account Aggregator NBFC regulated by RBI. Mohanram was also the Director General/CEO of ERNET India. Prior to ERNET India, he was the Director of C-DAC Bangalore Centre and served as the CTO of C-DAC. He was the Chief Architect of India’s first National Grid Computing Initiative and the System Software stack for the PARAM Series of Supercomputers.
Mohanram has been involved in several National Missions. He has been a member of the Technology Advisory Committee of National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), chaired by Member, NITI Aayog. Earlier, he was a member of the Technology Advisory Committee of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) mission spearheaded by the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and a member of the CSIR-4PI Advisory Committee chaired by Shri Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys.
N. Subramanian
Dr. N. Subramanian is serving as Executive Director, SETS since December, 2022. Prior to joining SETS he had served at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune as Head and Senior Director, Corporate R&D. As part of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) funded initiatives, he has lead various R&D projects in cyber security and established critical infrastructures. Contributing as member of Project Review & Steering Group of MeitY, doctoral committee, hackathon reviews, and mentored start-ups. He contributes to standards formulation activities under BIS and TSDSI and involved in guiding PhD students for research guidance.
Ole Reinartz
Mr. Ole Reinartz is a distinguished member of the Nokia technical staff (DMTS) and holds the title Principal System Architect at Nokia. He has 27+ years of experience in the telecommunication industry as an architect and technologist defining carrier-grade RAN architecture evolution in support of the digital transformation.
He is a technology leader in the areas of SW-, security- and network- architecture, 3G-5G, packet optical networks, mobile backhauling, technology policy and regulation. As part of his technical accomplishments, Ole has contributed to many projects such as the 5G XHaul (https://www.5g-xhaul-project.eu/), 5G Transformer (http://5g-transformer.eu/), and xRAN/O-RAN in several groups. He is Nokia’s lead delegate for O-RAN WG9 and WG11 and the main author of an O-RAN WG5 specification. Ole is a Nokia delegate to the CPRI forum where he is the main author of the specification “Requirements for the eCPRI Transport Network”. During his career he also submitted several patent applications.
In the Telecom Security domain, Ole is recognized as a visionary leveraging his creative, innovative and in-depth expertise, source of knowledge, with holistic thinking and perspective, and strategic agility.
Prakash R
Mr. Prakash R holds the designation of Scientist ‘G’ in Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT). He has been working as a researcher in the telecom industry for the past 30 years. His current interests include Software-intensive Telecom Systems, Wireless Networks (4G/5G/6G), Data Networks, Cloud Computing, Software Defined Networks, Open Source and Standardization.
Mr. Prakash completed his B.Tech at R.V.College of Engineering, Bangalore in 1993. He has been working in C-DOT since 1994 in various roles as a Research Engineer, Team Leader, Senior Program Manager, Business Unit Head/Division manager, Technical Expert and is currently holding an Executive position. He has worked on various aspects of telecommunications including Digital Switching Systems, Voice-over-IP, Internet Telephony, Fault-tolerant Systems, Software-intensive Telecom systems, Organizational Processes (CMMI), Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Organizational Change Management and creating Marketing department in C-DOT.
He is currently the coordinator for the following programs: Radio Access Network, and ERP Implementation at C-DOT. He is involved in C-DOT Academic Research Engagement (CARE) Program, R&D collaborations, member of the technology roadmap and strategic planning group in C-DOT.
He is an IEEE Senior Member, IETE Fellow and ACM Member and also serves as Chair in the Study Group Networks of TSDSI.
Prasanta Sarkar
Prasanta Sarkar has a total 30 years of experience. He is currently the Head – Applied Analytics & Intelligence, Advanced Engineering Department, Engineering Research Center at Tata Motors.
He built the first indigenous Engine Management System of the first Nano. He is presently deriving meaningful insight from data coming out of Electric Vehicle. Prasanta is associated with PM’s Uchchatar Avishkar Yojana with IIT-Kharagpur for Open Software and Hardware based hybrid vehicle.
He worked with TIFAC for National Electric Mobility Mission Plan 2020 in the R&D wing.
Prem Laxman Das
Prem Laxman Das has completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Indian Statistical Institute. He works in the domain of algorithmic aspects of algebra and number theory. In cryptology, his interests include — i. cryptanalysis of public key systems, ii. pairing-based crypto with applications to cloud computing security, iii. aspects of post-quantum cryptography, and iv. privacy, security and policy issues related to machine learning.
Priyanka Dey
Ms. Priyanka Dey is a Senior Research Engineer in Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), Chennai, India. She received her M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneshwar, India, in 2016. She has more than 7 years of experience in research and standards. She represents CEWiT in TSDSI, 3GPP RAN1, and ITU-R WP5D. She has contributed towards the development of the 5Gi standards TSDSI and represented TSDSI in ITU-R WP5D to provide technical support for 5Gi discussions. She has also contributed towards IMT 2030 discussions in ITU-R WP5D as a part of the TSDSI and Indian Delegation. She has been contributing to TSDSI since 2018 with being the rapporteur of study item on flexible duplexing and currently co-rapporteur of work item on RIS. She was one of the recipients of the “TSDSI Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 20-21”.
Radha Krishna Ganti
Radha Krishna Ganti is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He received his B. Tech. and M. Tech. in EE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Masters in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in EE from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. His doctoral work focused on the spatial analysis of interference networks using tools from stochastic geometry. He received the 2014 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, and the 2014 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize and the 2015 IEEE Communications society young author best paper award. He was also awarded the 2016-2017 Institute Research and Development Award (IRDA) by IIT Madras. In 2019, he was awarded the TSDSI fellow for technical excellence in standardisation activities and contribution to LMLC use case in ITU. He was the lead PI from IITM involved in the development of 5G base stations for the 5G testbed project funded by DOT.
Rahim Tafazolli
Rahim Tafazolli is the only Regius Professor of Electronic Engineering, a Professor of Mobile and Satellite Communications, the Director of Institute of Communication Systems (ICS) and Director and founder of 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) and 6GIC at the University of Surrey. He has been active in research for over 30 years and published more than 1000 technical articles and editor of two books and Chief editor of Wiley’s 5G Ref. book. Regius Tafazolli has been a technical and strategic advisor to many mobile companies and recently served as a member of UK Government DCMS Task Force on “Diversification of Telecom equipment providers ecosystem” and now member of DCMS Council of advisors on Diversification He is expert representative of UKSA (UK Space Agency) to ESA (European Space Agency) on 5G over Satellite. In 2014, He was technical advisor to Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, on “London Infrastructure investment 2050 Plan”.
He is a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), Fellow of IET (FIET) and Fellow of WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum).
Rajesh Kapoor
Rajesh Kapoor is Technical Consultant SGSS at TSDSI. He was Director Technical of TCIL and was on board its subsidiary Tamil Nādu Telecommunications Ltd. He was Governing Council member of TSDSI and Chairman of its Study Group on Solutions and Services.
He has over 40 years of association with Telecom Industry and have wide experience of consultancy, Project management, design, development and implementation of Telecom & ICT infrastructure, software development projects in India and abroad. The domains of projects covered Tele-education & Tele-medicine Networks, Disaster Risk mitigation Networks, Message switching networks, Data Centre, National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN/ Bharat net); Submarine OFC network (Chennai to Port Blair), Nationwide OPGW network, OSS/BSS Telecommunication systems and power systems development etc. He has 1979 pass out with Bachelor degree in electronics & electrical communication from Punjab Engineering college Chandigarh.
R K Pathak
Mr R K Pathak is currently serving as Director General, B6GA. He is recognized for his exceptional contributions to indigenous manufacturing, technological innovation, and global collaboration.
He is Instrumental in setting up of the Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI), driving technology standards and innovation.
Mr Pathak is leading the Bharat 6G Alliance with his forward-looking approach. He continues shaping India’s telecom landscape, inspiring innovation, standardisation, collaboration, and progress.
Ritu Ranjan Mittar
Shri Ritu Ranjan Mittar is an Indian Telecommunication Services Officer of 1985 Batch. With over 35 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Sh. Mittar has worked on various projects related to the development and deployment of telecommunications networks, standards, and policies in Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. He has also been involved in the development of various technical standards and specifications for the telecommunications industry, including Quantum, 5G, IoT, and M2M technologies. He is actively participating in the meetings of standards development organizations, viz., ITU, ETSI, APT, WRC, etc. and also interacts with other international fora, viz., 3GPP, ETSI, IETF, oneM2M, etc. He also holds the important leadership position from India as Chairman of International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Study Group 11, which deals with the international standardization of “Signalling requirements, protocols, test specifications and combating counterfeit telecommunication/ICT devices”. Currently, he as Advisor is also heading the Telecommunication Engineering Centre, the technical and standardization arm of Department of Telecommunications, Government of India.
Ravi Prasad
Technology Leader with deep expertise (25+ years) across immersive technology, Gen AI, Integration Platform, Cloud, Cognitive Content Automation & Digital Experience Platform. Incubated new technology practices and experience centers & drove user adoption. Ravi has published several thought leadership papers and POV’s and is a speaker on immersive & integration technologies and has external publication to his credit. In his current role at Wipro, Ravi is leading the Immersive Technology Practice with the primary intent of being a trusted advisor to enterprises and accelerate the technology adoption.
Samar Shailendra
Dr. Samar is currently working as Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He is also the Adjunct Professor at IIIT Bangalore. Previously, he worked with Intel and led their Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) Standardization at 3GPP and India. He is also the ex-chair of TSDSI Roadmap Committee and ex-vice chair of Study Group – Networks (SGN) at TSDSI. He is credited with making substantial contributions to shaping 5G Advanced requirements and the global vision for 6G technology in close collaboration with Indian Telecom Standard Bodies and Government Agencies. His research interests include SDN/NFV, Internet Architecture, Transport Protocols, M2M, Drones, Robotics, and AI.
Sandeep Sharma
Sandeep Sharma is VP and Global Head of portfolio 5G/RAN/ORAN at Tech Mahindra and is part of Network Services Leadership Team. His set of responsibilities includes focusing on leading and creating solutions in 5G and ORAN domain.
He is a strong experienced leader with a successful track record in leading teams in Product Management, Network Planning and Pre-sales. Sandeep possess a strong reputation for the ability to incubate new and emerging technologies in blue, red and brown ocean markets.
In 20+ years of experience, Sandeep has established his credentials both in domestic market and Global markets. It helps in positioning the key initiatives in highly competitive markets, with a focus on building long term customers and business partner relationships through consultative approach. His area of interests includes technology evolution strategy around ORAN, 6G RAN and Quantum computing.
Sandeep holds an Engineering degree, and MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, India
Satish Jamadagni
Satish Jamadagni is currently the Senior Vice President and head of Global Standards at Reliance Jio.
He has 23 years of industry experience in the telecom domain.
He is also ex-Vice Chair of TSDSI which is the Indian Standards Development Organization (SDO).
He is active in 3GPP, GSMA and in O-RAN alliance. Earlier he was a Co-Chair of the Asia Regional Operators Group; Small Cell Forum (SCF) and was on the board of the International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC).
He has around 200 granted patents in the wireless and network domain.
Satish Kanugovi
Satish Kanugovi is part of Nokia Strategy and Technology division and heads the Standardization and Industry Engagements in APAC, focussing on India, Japan, and Korea regions.
He is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) and Senior Member IEEE. In his earlier roles, he has been part of Robotic Systems Research at Nokia Bell Labs and contributing to wireless research and standardization in the Mobile Networks CTO organization.
His current research interests include 6G communication systems with focus on sustainable and secure networking. He did his engineering in electronics and communication from Delhi College of Engineering and masters in Nyaya and Vaisheshika from Karnataka Samskrit University.
Seong Jun
Dr. Seong-Jun OH received his PhD degree from EECS at the University of Michigan in 2000. He is currently working as a professor at Korea University (Seoul, Korea). He has also been the Republic of Korea’s representative for various ITU-R working parties (including WP5D) since 2008.
Shwetha Kiran
Shwetha Kiran has over 12 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer and over 6 years R&D experience in wireless networks. She is currently working as a Senior Project Executive Officer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay. She has actively contributed towards ‘WLAN integration with 5GS’ as part of the Indigenous 5G Testbed Project. She supports numerous standardization initiatives on future mobile networks, in the areas of Broadcast broadband convergence, Relay based architecture, Service based architecture, in 3GPP, ITU-T and TSDSI. She has completed her education from University of Mysore.
Suresh Chitturi
Suresh Chitturi is currently the Senior Director, and Head of Technology Standards at Samsung Research – Bangalore, and serving as the TSDSI Vice-Chair since 2022. He has over 20 years of experience in the mobile technology industry and is responsible for research and standardization of emerging wireless and IoT technologies in global and regional standardization bodies such as 3GPP, ITU, FiRa and TSDSI.
He served as the Chair of 3GPP SA6 Working Group (2018-2022) and Vice-Chair (2015-2018), which is responsible for application enablement and critical communications applications standards for vertical markets.
He has contributed actively towards the development of technology and standards strategy in various global Standards Organizations (SDOs) such as 3GPP, W3C, JCP, OMA and GSMA.
Susanna Kallio
Susanna Kallio is the Head of Sustainability Standardization in Nokia. She has a master’s degree in electronic engineering.
Susanna has a long career in standardization – working more than 25 years in different international standardization organizations, like 3GPP, ETSI, ITU-T, ISO, CEN/CENELEC, etc., past 10+ years in telecom specific sustainability standardization in ETSI, ITU-T, and CEN/CENELEC. Her main focus in environmental topics is Circular Economy and Life Cycle Assessment methodology. She is very passionate about sustainability.
Subhas Mondal
Subhas leads the R&D efforts for 5G product development at HFCL as a senior vice president. In this role, Subhas works with academia, standards development organizations, and technology partners. The portfolio of products include O-RAN based Macro RU, indoor small cell, medium range outdoor small cell, and Transport Products for interconnecting disaggregated RAN nodes.
Prior to joining HFCL, Subhas served as the Chief Architect of Wipro’s organization-wide 5G initiative from 2018 to 2021. He was recognized as a Wipro Fellow for his technical contributions. Subhas has served as a member at large, IEEE SA Board of Governors and is currently the chair-elect for IEEE Communication Society, Bangalore Chapter. Subhas holds an engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering.
T R Ramya
T R Ramya completed her MS and Ph.D from IITM during 2002 and 2010 respectively, both in wireless communication systems. She has about 15 years of experience encompassing academia, research and industry. She has formerly worked as a research associate in HP-IITM R&D labs, Lead Engineer in Tata Elxsi. Currently she is a Principal Research Engineer in CEWiT, focusing on issues related to 5G and also studying the work scope related to 6G. Her research interests lie in integrated sensing and communications and ambient IOT devices.
Urbasi Sinha
Urbasi Sinha is a Professor at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India. She is heading the Quantum Information and Computing (QuIC) laboratory at RRI. Prof. Sinha is a Simons Emmy Noether Fellow at the Perimeter Institute, Canada as well as an associate faculty member at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo, Canada, and the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, Canada.
She completed her PhD at Cambridge University, UK, on experiments in high temperature Superconductivity. She completed her M.Sc in Physics also from Cambridge. She has been a Gates Cambridge scholar during her Ph.D and a Nehru-Chevening scholar during her masters. She was a post-doctoral research associate in the Cavendish labs, Cambridge as well as at IQC Canada.
Her lab at RRI specializes in experiments on photonic quantum information processing including quantum computing and quantum communication, primarily using single and entangled photons. She is heading India’s first project on satellite based secure quantum communications.
Her scientific recognitions include the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in the year 2017 as well as the 2018 ICTP-ICO Gallieno Denardo Award in Optics. She was recognised as one of Asia’s Top 100 scientists by the Asian Scientist for the year 2019 and has also been awarded the Simon’s Emmy Noether Fellowship at the Perimeter Institute, Canada. In August 2020, she led the two- member winning team as a mentor, at the World Skills International Competition in Quantum Technology at the BRICS Future Skills Challenge, organised by the Russian Quantum Centre in Moscow, Russia with competitors from several countries worldwide. She won the ASSOCHAM Women in Cyber: Making a Difference award in the category “Cyber – Leading from the front” in 2021. Recently, she has been awarded the prestigious 26th SIES Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence award for the year 2023 in the domain of science and technology.
Website: https://www.rri.res.in/~quic/
Vijay Kumar Roy
Vijay Kumar Roy is a seasoned telecommunications expert serving as the Deputy Director General (Standards-R&D-Innovation) in the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. He holds a B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering from REC (NIT), Calicut, Kerala, and an MBA with dual specialization in International Business and Finance.
In his illustrious career, Mr. Roy has played pivotal roles in shaping India’s telecom sector. Notably, he led the Indian delegation in standardization activities, securing India’s place in global 6G development. He also contributed significantly to the drafting of the “Bharat 6G vision document” and was a key figure in the QUAD Track 1.5 program and iCET, fostering international collaboration on critical technologies. He has received many awards for his significant contributions in Telecom sector .
Mr. Roy’s contributions extend to leadership roles in ITU-T Study Group 2, where he serves as Vice Chairman and Associate Rapporteur. He has been instrumental in formulating various 5G and 4G standards and test schedules in India, actively participating in international meetings.
As an ITU Expert, he made significant contributions to Bhutan’s telecommunications development, including SOP development, capacity building, and EMF compliance testing. His dedication to advancing telecommunications standards and technology has been recognized and appreciated by ITU.
In summary, Vijay Kumar Roy is a highly accomplished professional who has made substantial contributions to India’s telecom sector, especially in the areas of standardization, international collaboration, and technology advancement.
Vijay Madan
Mr. Madan is currently associated with TSDSI as Advisor & Mentor with special focus on standardization in Services & Solutions relating to evolving technologies & applications, vertical sectors use cases, Security & Crypto, IoT, Drone Services, Cloud Computing, PPDR, Future ICT enabling systems. Also, with JWGs / Focus connected with oneM2M, 3GPP, ITU-T. He is an Elect Comm Engineer with PG in Business Administration. Multiple certifications and fellowships in other subjects including research fellowship at foreign University.
He started his 55 Years long Professional career in R&D at Telecommunications Research Centre, Department of Telecom (DoT), he has headed C-DOT, Premier Telecom R&D Centre. He was also chief Mentor of a TATA group organization besides other multiple assignments in India and Abroad.
Vikram Tiwathia
Vikram is the Deputy Director General, of the COAI. This is India’s leading industry association for Telecom, Broadband and Digital services. He interacts extensively with the ICT industry leadership and senior officials at DoT, MeitY, TRAI and other government offices for regulatory and policy matters. He was a member of the Board of GCF. An active member of national industry coalitions – CII, FICCI, Assocham, TSDSI, NASSCOM, IAMAI. He participates in many International Workshops / conferences conducted by ITU, APT etc.
He has earlier worked with: –
- TATA Teleservices Limited from 2008-10.
- Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) as their CIO from 2005 – 2008,
- Indian Army (Signals). Took voluntary retirement in the rank of Colonel in 2005.
Vinay Shrivastava
Mr. Vinay Shrivastava is General Manager (Telecom Standards) at Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. He holds an M.Tech. in Telecommunication Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.
Vinay is actively engaged in standardization efforts of national interest at ITU-R, 3GPP, and TSDSI, His notable contributions include leading and contributing crucial spectrum studies towards WRC23 agenda item on behalf of Indian Telecom service providers at ITU-R WP5D1. Vinay’s contributions to the standards are many, including spearheading the NAVIC A-GNSS standardization2 work at 3GPP and TSDSI 6G contribution3 to the ITU-R draft report on Future Technology trends towards IMT2030 & Beyond.
With over two decades of experience in the telecom industry, Vinay has rich experience of physical layer modeling, simulation, and implementation for multiple generations of cellular modems while working with a range of multinational corporations.
His work at Telecom Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI) includes following studies of National interest –
1. “Spectrum sharing & coexistence study for IMT in upper 6 GHz band”, TR4
2. “Study of 6G Use cases, Requirements, and Technologies”, TR5
3. “Study of 6G Waveforms”, Ongoing study item
Vinay’s current interests revolve around next-generation technologies, such as non-terrestrial networks, 6G waveform design, and spectrum sharing and coexistence studies. He is part of crucial national spectrum discussion committees.
Vineeth Kumar
I am an IT professional with 22+ years of experience and serving GE HealthCare for more than 13 years now as Sr. Staff IT Infrastructure Architect and Consultant.
My main domain is research in NextGen IT Infrastructure Design and Deployment for GE HealthCare products including qualification of solutions on 5G.
I hold a couple of disclosures in 5G and own 5G innovation lab programs at GE’s JFWTC Office.
Vinosh Babu
Dr. Vinosh joined Qualcomm in 2011 and has served over the years in roles spanning engineering and standardization. He currently leads Qualcomm’s standardization engagements in India. He engages Indian & regional stakeholders on matters related to radio standardization and regulation. Vinosh is the convener of the 5G India Forum (5GIF), and a member of the TIG-6G, the Indian 6G flagship program. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the IIT Madras, with specialization in wireless communication. He is also a senior member of the IEEE.
Vishnu RAM OV
Vishnu RAM OV, Consultant TSDSI, has hands-on experience in the Telecom industry for more than two decades, developing and implementing standards, and holds 14 international granted patents.
He is a senior member of IEEE, an active member of NWG13 (National Working Group 13) in India and Vice Chair of ITU-T focus group on Autonomous Networks and co-convener of ITU-T Correspondence Group on datasets (cg dataset).
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