Speaker’s Bios
Abhay Karandikar
Prof Abhay Karandikar is currently Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science of Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology. Before joining DST in October 2023, he served as the Director, IIT Kanpur during April 2018 to September 2023. Prof Karandikar is best known for his exceptional contributions in the field of telecom technology development and global 5G/6G standards with 100+ publications and 40 granted and filed patents to his credit.
Abhay Kumar Sah
Abhay Kumar Sah received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Jaypee Institute of Engineering & Technology, Guna, in 2010, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2017. Following his Ph.D., Dr. Sah joined Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore as a Senior Lead Engineer, where he played a key role in developing 3GPP Release 14 features. He later served as a Lead Software Architect at Radisys India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore, where he was instrumental in the development of PUSCH algorithms for 5G base stations. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research interests focus on realizing cell-free massive MIMO systems for next-generation wireless networks and exploring the applications of deep learning in wireless communication systems. He has authored over 40 research articles and holds more than 15 global and Indian patents. Dr. Sah has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the MathWorks Research Award, DoT’s Telecom Technology Development Fund, SERB Start-up Research Grant, DST-Inspire Faculty Award, TCS Research Fellowship, and the Vice-Chancellor’s Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance during his bachelor’s degree. He also received the Samsung Citizen Award for his contributions to 3GPP Release 14 features.
Abhijan Bhattacharyya
Mr. Abhijan is a Sr. Scientist in Network Solutions & Services unit of TCS with an industry experience of nearly 22 years.
He is the Vice Chair of TSDSI SGSS WG2, as well as, of ITU-T Study Group 13, representing TSDSI and India. He is also a visiting faculty of Jadavpur University, India.
He has about 20 US patent grants and around 25 publications in renowned international conference proceedings, journals and book chapters.
He authored RFC7967, the first indigenous contribution from India to IETF standards.
In the past he provided technical leadership for critical product deliveries for contemporary wireless physical layer modules for a leading telecom test and measurement equipment producer
His present areas of interest are AI native networks, Internet protocols, signal processing, etc.
He did B.Sc. (Honours) in Electronics and B.Tech in IT from University of Calcutta an M.E. from Jadavpur University. He is pursuing PhD on future networks from Jadavpur University.
Abhijeet Abhimanyu Masal
Mr. Abhijeet Abhimanyu Masal is a Principal Research Engineer in Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), Chennai, India with 11+ 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 RAN WG groups and SA2 and has been contributing to 3GPP since Rel. 13. He also represents India in the ITU-R WP5D group. 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, HIBs and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) for 5G and beyond with focus on channel modeling and estimation, new waveforms, joint sensing and communication techniques and unification of different verticals towards 6G.
AK 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.
Amit Kumar Srivastava
Mr Amit Srivastava joined DoT as ITS officer of 1996 batch and worked at various places of India and having more than 26 years of experience in various field of communications. He is presently heading the Mobile Technology division as DDG(MT) in Telecommunications Engineering Centre. He is chair of National Working Group -13 in TEC India, which studies and contributes for Study Group-13 of ITU-T and also chair of similar NWG for ORAN in TEC India. He is also Vice-Chair of ITU Focus group on Artificial Intelligence Native in Telecommunication Networks (FG-AINN) and successfully organised the 3rd meeting of FG-AINN in India from 11-13 June 2025 along with Build-a-thon event, which were largely accepted in the WG-4 of the Focus Group. He is also one of Governing Council Member of Bharat 6G Alliance representing DoT.
Anand Srivastava
Prof. Anand Srivastava assumed the role of Vice Chancellor at Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT) on November 29, 2023. He is M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. Prior to his appointment at NSUT, he held the position of Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) at the IIIT Delhi and Director at IIIT Delhi Incubation Center (a Section 8 company). He is also Adjunct Professor in Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management at IIT Delhi since 2008. He was Dean and Professor in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, HP, India from Jan. 2012 to Nov. 2014. Prior to this, he was with Alcatel-Lucent-Bell Labs, India as a solution architect for access and core networks for 2.5 years. His initial stint (∼ 19 years) was with the Center for Development of Telematics (CDOT), a premier telecom research center of Govt. of India where he was Director and Member of the CDOT Board. During his stay in CDOT, he provided technical leadership and motivation to a team of engineers engaged in the development of national-level projects in the areas of Telecom Security Systems, Network Management Systems, Intelligent Networks, Operations Support Systems, Access Networks (GPON) and Optical Technology based products. Most of these projects were completed successfully and commercially deployed in the public telecom network. He also carried out significant research work in the Photonics Research Lab, Nice, France, under the Indo-French Science & Technology Cooperation Program on “Special optical fibers and fiber-based components for optical communications” during 2007-2010 in different phases. He was also closely involved with ITU-T, Geneva in Study Group 15 and represented India for various optical networking standards meetings. Currently, he is driving VLC/LiFi standardization activities under the aegis of Telecommunications Standards Development Society India (TSDSI). His research work is in the area of optical core & access networks, Vehicle-to-vehicle communications, Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) architectures, Visible light communications and Quantum Communications. He was awarded with “Distinguished Research Award” by IIIT Delhi in 2023. He has received “Outstanding Technical Contribution” award for the Study Group (Networks) by the Telecommunications Standards Development Society India (TSDSI) in 2023. In recognition of his contributions to academia and national service, Prof. Srivastava was conferred the honorary rank of Colonel Commandant by the Government of India. The pipping ceremony was held on May 21, 2025, at NSUT, highlighting his support for the values of discipline, leadership, and national service championed by the National Cadet Corps (NCC).
Anuradha Kanamarlapudi
Anuradha Kanamarlapudi heads the Healthcare Technology and Innovation Center at GE HealthCare, Bangalore. She leads a multi-disciplinary team of researchers who work across multiple competency areas to develop and incubate solutions for healthcare products. She has more than 28 years of experience in research & development, product delivery, managing large interdisciplinary missions spread across the globe.
While at GE Corporate Research, she was the Technology Manager for the Physical and Digital Analytics Research lab and Exponential Market Solutions Leader responsible for incubating and running innovation missions spanning physical and digital technology areas. She has significant experience in the healthcare domain and is currently heading the 5G Special Interest Group at the center. She has 10+ patents rated to be filed in the area of AI in healthcare.
During the initial days of her career, she has worked in organizations such as Siemens and Philips in the areas of software platform and product development in Telecom and Consumer Electronics domain.
She is currently pursuing a doctoral program in Indian Institute of Management, Indore specializing in Strategy management on a part-time basis. Her areas of interest are in the area of frugal innovation.
Balazs Bertenyi
Mr Balazs has over 20 years of experience in the field, he joined Nokia in 1998 and started to work on circuit switched mobile switching.
In 1999 he joined the research group on IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and soon started to work in 3GPP standardization on IMS architecture.
From 2003 to 2007, he was the Head of delegation for Nokia in 3GPP SA2
From 2007 to 2011, he was the Chairman of 3GPP SA2
From 2011 to 2015, he was the Chairman of 3GPP TSG-SA
In 2015 he moved to the radio standardization group within Nokia to focus on 5G matters. He started attending TSG-RAN in 3GPP in 2015 and started to work on 5G.
In 2017 he was elected as Chairman of TSG-RAN and has been serving as chairman of this key group since then:
From 2017 to 2021, he was the Chairman of 3GPP TSG-RAN (re-elected in 2019)
Within Nokia, he has led various key projects on Mobile Broadband architecture and standards strategy.
After finishing his Chairmanship duties in 3GPP in 2021 he has taken the pre-standards and ecosystem lead for Nokia on 6G, and has been actively engaged in related activities since.
Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi is Former Chair of TSDSI and Professor Emeritus in the EE Department at IIT Madras. He served as Director of IIT Madras and has been a driving force in India’s telecom standardization landscape. A founding member of TSDSI, he played a critical role in shaping its vision and expanding its global footprint. He specializes in wireless networks and signal processing and led the nationally significant 5G Test Bed project. He heads Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology.
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.
Chandra Challagonda
Chandra Challagonda is the Chief Executive Officer of the FIWARE Foundation, a global non-profit organisation fostering open-source technologies for smart cities, data spaces, and digital public infrastructure. With over 26 years of leadership experience across the digital transformation landscape, Chandra has played a pivotal role in scaling open and interoperable ecosystems that empower governments, industries, and communities worldwide. Before becoming CEO, he served as an Architect and Business Community Manager at FIWARE, where he led strategic initiatives and global partnerships with a strong focus on sustainability, ethical AI, and digital sovereignty.
Chandra is also recognised for his entrepreneurial impact—he is a serial entrepreneur with an inclination towards impact, reflecting his deep-rooted commitment to open innovation and inclusive growth. His contributions span high-impact EU projects such as OpenDEI, DSSC, and DS4SSCC, and he is actively engaged in international forums on AI and data governance, including the UN’s AI for Developing Countries initiative. Chandra brings a global perspective on enabling open digital ecosystems, promoting sovereign and standards-based data sharing, and unlocking the full potential of NGSI-LD and open-source DPI frameworks for India and the Global South.
Chandra Shekhar Pandey
Chandra Shekhar Pandey is the Founder and CEO of Seceon Inc., a leading AI-driven cybersecurity company trusted by over 9,000 customers globally. With over 25 years of leadership experience across cybersecurity, cloud, and infrastructure domains, he has held key technical and strategic roles at Juniper, Lucent/Nokia, IPI/Ciena, 3Com/HPE/C-DoT. Under his vision, Seceon has pioneered a unified OTM platform that combines AI/ML/DTM, threat detection, and automated response to secure enterprises and critical infrastructure. An advocate of democratizing cybersecurity through automation, Mr. Pandey frequently speaks at global forums on topics including AI in security operations, zero trust, and OT/IT convergence.
Charles Santhosam
Mr Charles is a, Senior R&D Management professional with 28 Years of wireless experience in L1/L23/Arch/System Engineering areas.
He completed his Master’s in Engg from Indian Institute of science & holds an MBA on International Business.
He has a great deal of experience in development of SW/FW on CPU/DSP/FPGA/GPU based computes for all generations of Mobile standards from 2G to 5G. He started his career at Centre for Development Telematics (C-DoT) and worked with NxP semiconductors, Alcatel Lucent and Mavenir in the past. Currently leading the development of Aerial L1/L2 offloading on GPU for 5G/6G wireless solutions in India as part of NVIDIA.
Charles is a Senior Member of IEEE and has served as Execom member of IEEE Bangalore section for two years. He is a Prolific Inventor and has 5 patents granted and 30 Patents in published state.
Daniel Kilper
Dr. Daniel Kilper is a professor and innovator whose research is aimed at solving fundamental and real world problems in communication networks in order to create a faster, more affordable, and energy efficient Internet, addressing interdisciplinary challenges for smart cities, sustainability, and digital equity. Within both academia and industry, he has made pioneering contributions in communication devices and systems research, primarily spanning three areas: energy efficient communication networks, optical performance monitoring, and AI and software defined networks.
Professor Dan Kilper is the Director of the CONNECT Centre and Professor of Future Communication Networks in the School of Engineering in Trinity College Dublin.
Professor Kilper received his PhD in physics from the University of Michigan in 1996. From 2000 to 2013, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. He is a senior member of IEEE and chairs the optics working group in the IEEE International Network Generations Roadmap. He is currently serving as the Fiber Optics section editor for the 3rd Edition of the Encyclopedia of Modern Optics. He was recognized as a 2019 NIST Communications Technology Lab Innovator and holds eleven issued patents and authored six book chapters and more than two hundred peer-reviewed publications.
David Boswarthick
David Boswarthick is the ETSI Director of Strategy and Innovation, where he is responsible for tracking and capturing ICT research & development activities that are ripe for standardization.
He devotes himself to new business / technology development and the creation of strong links and enablers towards R&D, academia, National, EU, global research projects and the creation of new or enhanced standards groups in ETSI.
David has more than 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications sector, which includes over 25 years’ working in ICT standardization supporting both 3GPP and ETSI Technical groups as well as Board level strategic initiatives. ETSI is a non-profit organization with more than 900 member organizations worldwide, drawn from 64 countries and five continents. Members include the world’s leading companies and innovative R&D organizations. ETSI are officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization. ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, broadcast, cybersecurity and Internet.
Debabrata Nayak
Excellence in Cyber Security Management which includes Vulnerability Management, Threat Hunting, Security Monitoring, Incident Response, Security Awareness Training, Risk Assessment, Security Product Evaluation and Insider Threat Investigation& Artificial Intelligence Cyber Security Ecosystem, Signed MoU with top IIT, NIT, Engineering colleges Proven track record in enrolling Top 20 NIRF 100 Engineering & University to build Cloud
Excellence in driving organization-level Information Security & Business Continuity Management (BCM) functions and developing & enforcing policies, processes, controls & best practices to achieve security compliance (NIST, ISO, ENISA, GDPR,Privacy Shield, ISO 27001:2022 ,CSA STAR. India Privacy ACT).
Actively participated in FICCI, ASSOCHAM, CII, COAI, GISFI, NASSCOM-DSCI, TRAI, TEC, DOT, 3GPP SA3, ETSI, ITU, CSA, CSRI, IEEE, TSDSI & MeiTY, NSCS
Ph.D. (Wireless Security Policy & Optimization Techniques) from IIT, Mumbai in 2008 with CGPA – 8.2; Bagged the Best Thesis Award ,M.E. (Computer Science and Engineering) from NIT, Rourkela in 2001 with 93% (Rated as a Topper)
Head of cyber security Managed security service Ericsson India Pvt Ltd. June 2022 to till Continuing.
Head of cyber security National payment corporation of India ,Chief cyber security officer Huawei Telecom and Technologies of India for 12 years. ABB India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as Cyber security Project Manager
Motorola India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad as Senior Software Architect cyber security
Tata Elxi Ltd., Trivandrum as Information and Networking Security Specialist
IDRBT, RBI, Hyderabad as Research Officer – Networking & Information Security
Speaker in more than 100 international conferences including, UN, ITU, GSMA, US NIST, Council of Europe, Chinese Educational system, Japan higher education, UK ministry of cyber and resilience, Australian cyber ecosystem.
Published 62 international Journal and conference paper including IEEE, ACM, River publisher, Nine times get best paper award.
Mentoring startup ecosystem and Jury in various forum like Artificial intelligence, UN 17 sustainable goal including climate change, Education to poor, Cyber security.
Chairman and vice chairman in Global ICT Forum, Nasscom, Assocham, FICCI, DoT NW17, DOT M2M, DoT IOT Committee.
Life Member of:
- IEEE, Membership no – 80613140 ,
- Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), India. [LM24237] ,
- Crypto logical Research Society (CRSI) of India [L/132] ,
- Computer Society of India (CSI) [8825],
- Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS)[072]
- Orissa Engineering Congress ,Motorola Information Assurance Forum for 3 years, Cloud Senior Alliance (CSA) and 4G, 3GPP Security Committee SA3 (LTE Security),o European Telecommunication Standard Institute (ETSI),o International Association of Cryptographic Research (IACR),o International Telecommunication Union (ITU) SG17.
- Vice-Chair in ASSOCHAM Cyber Security Committee 2014, 2019
- GISFI Working Group – ICT, Security & Privacy as Vice-Chairman-Dr. Debabrata Nayak
- Telecommunication Engineering Centre: Ministry of Communications, Department of Telecommunications and Government of India, NWG 17 (It is equivalent to ITU SG 17), which deals with Cyber Security of Indian Government
- Member in FICCI Cyber Security Committee
- Member in CII Cyber Security Committee
Technical Report on:
o Recommendations for IoT / M2M Security
o TEC-TR-SN-M2M-009-01.M2M Security Work Group, IoT / M2M Security
Dimitra Simeonidou
Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou OBE: is the Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission, the Director of Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol and the Founding Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute. Her research is focusing on the fields of high-performance networks, programmable networks, Future Internet, 5G/6G and smart city infrastructures. She has been the Technical Architect, and the CTO of the smart city project Bristol Is Open. In the past few years, she is increasingly working on cross-disciplinary topics addressing digital transformation for society and businesses.
Dimitra has been a member of the UK Government Supply Chain Diversification Task Force and Advisory Council. She is a founding member of the UK Telecoms Innovation Network and member of the OFCOM Spectrum Advisory Board. She has led major research projects funded by UK Government and the EC. She is currently coordinating the DSIT REASON project developing blueprint architectures and technologies for 6G and the EPSRC JOINER project, establishing a UK-wide experimentation platform for 6G research and innovation.
She is the author and co-author of over 700 publications, numerous patents and several contributions to standards. She has been co-founder of three spin-out companies developing solutions for connected smart infrastructures.
Dimitra is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), a Fellow of the IEEE (FIEEE), Fellow of WWRF and member of UKCRC. In 2025 she has been recognised with an OBE for service to communication technologies research and scientific policy.
Gino Masini
Gino Masini is Principal Researcher with Ericsson in Sweden. He holds a master’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management. He worked as researcher at Politecnico di Milano for ESA (the European Space Agency) and ASI (the Italian Space Agency), contributing to millimeter wave propagation experiments in space. He joined Ericsson in 1999, working with microwave radio link antennas, network planning, and MMIC design, and since 2009 with RAN architecture. He works in standards since 2001 (3GPP, ETSI, ITU, and CEPT). Active in 3GPP for more than 15 years, he was elected as RAN3 Chairman for two terms, overseeing the standardization of 5G RAN architecture. He received the 3GPP Excellence Award in 2022. He is the author of more than 80 patents, 3 recent books on 5G and NTN, and a number of scientific articles. He holds a “Six Sigma” certification.
Gourab Ghatak
Dr Gourab is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, where he is also associated with the Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management. Currently, he is serving as an Editor in the IEEE Transactions on Communications, on the area Machine Learning & Communications.
During his PhD, he developed stochastic geometry tools to analyze and develop algorithms for initial access procedures, adaptive beamforming, user association, and traffic distribution in dual-band networks.
Currently, he has two directions of research: stochastic geometry and bandit algorithms. He is currently investigated the interplay of these two directions and studied the spatiotemporal statistics of the performance of machine learning algorithms deployed in wireless networks. His main application areas are MAC and PHY layer algorithms for 5G and 6G communications and PHY layer signal processing applications such as initial access, beamforming, etc.
Havish Koorapaty
Havish Koorapaty (Havish.Koorapaty@ericsson.com) has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He has almost 30 years of experience with Ericsson, in wireless communications systems. He has over 250 technical papers and patents and was the recipient of the Ericsson Inventor of the Year award in 2016. Havish has participated in standardization efforts in the 3GPP, ATIS, TIA, IEEE, ETSI and O-RAN standardization bodies. He was the recipient of the 3GPP Excellence Award in 2015. Havish served as a vice-chairman in 3GPP RAN1 and as a co-chair for the O RAN next Generation Research Group (nGRG). He currently works on 6G systems, as the technical coordinator for Ericsson’s contributions to the ATIS Next G Alliance, as well as monitoring 6G initiatives globally. He is a co-chair of the Steering Group in the Next G Alliance as well as a co-chair of the ATIS Open RAN Committee.
Hemant Kumar Rath
Dr Hemant is a Senior Member of IEEE holds MTech and Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, India, and BE in EL&TCE from VSSUT Burla, Odisha. He has more than 27 years of experience in academics, research, and industry.
At present, Hemant is a Principal Scientist & Distinguished Engineer at TCS Research, Bhubaneswar.
He has authored several research papers, co-authored a book, delivered several talks and keynotes, and has more than 95 granted patents in the broad areas of communication and networking.
He is active in national and international standardization in the areas of networking and communications. Hemant is also teaching at IIT Bhubaneswar (School of Electrical and Computer Sciences) as an Adjunct Faculty since July 2019.
Hideyuki Iwata
Dr. Hideyuki Iwata is President and Director-General of the Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) and serves as Vice Chair of ASTAP. Since joining NTT in 1991, he has held leadership roles in R&D and standardization. He has contributed significantly to international ICT standards, including as Chairman of the XGP Forum and Visiting Professor at the University of Peruaua de Ciencias Aplicadas.
Hiroyuki Atarashi
Dr. Hiroyuki Atarashi is a Senior Manager in the Spectrum Planning Office at NTT DOCOMO, INC. in Japan. Since 2006, he has been involved in the standardization activities for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) within ITU-R and APT. Starting in 2024, he has been serving as the Chair of ITU-R Working Party 5D, which is responsible for studying the overall radio system aspects of IMT systems from both spectrum and technology perspectives.
Inder S Gopal
Chairman, Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG)
Research Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Inder is the Chairman of the Centre of Data for Public Good and Research Professor at IISc. He was previously Vice President of Software at Ericsson, where he was instrumental in launching their Edge computing efforts. Before that, he was Vice President of Networking at IBM, where he had responsibility for all of IBM’s hardware and software networking products. He has also served as Chief Architect of AT&T and Chief Technology Officer of Prodigy.
He has founded, built-up, and successfully sold two venture-funded start-up companies, ReefEdge and Iptivia, and is an investor and board member in several others. He served as the Founding Chairman of a leading open-source networking software group, OpenDaylight, recruiting dozens of top-tier companies to participate.
Inder has also had a distinguished research career in the area of computer networks, with 20 patents and more than 70 technical publications to his credit. He worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, earning two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards. He has served as editor of several technical journals and was elected Fellow of the IEEE. He has a PhD from Columbia University, New York and a BA from Oxford University, England.
Jagan Shantigram
Dr Jagan Shantigram is a product development engineering leader, technology strategist and responsible for outbound technology sales. He is passionate about customer experience and getting the product right. He has built and led world class engineering organizations, hired and coached leaders who went on to leading large organizations of their own. He believes in data driven organizations that constantly improve process and product using data, to deliver on better customer experience and higher satisfaction. He currently leads the network management and AI applications group at Tejas Networks, he has a Btech from IIT Madras followed by a PhD from Columbia University, and has served as a CTO and as head of Engineering in previous companies.
Achievements:
- He has built and deployed software products in Network management, AI applications, wireless RAN and wireline networking nodes, analytics, IoT, OTT content streaming, Digital transformation of BSS and billing including CRM and customer success tools for MVNO customers and utility for cellular load estimation using machine learning
- He has delivered and supported several products in to Tier 1 mobile operators, understanding what it takes to build quality and scale in products
- He has built large scale, cloud systems live with peak of 400+ VMs across continets, servicing 35+M monthly and 5M daily active users – software as a service (SaaS) model
- He has managed crisis situations and turned around outcomes to build customer trust and retention
- He has 15 US patents to his credit in areas of wireless and data networking
Jishnu Aravindakshan
Jishnu Aravindakshan is Principal Architect Technology in CTO’s office, Tejas Networks India Limited and has 21 years’ experience in the field of Telecom and standardization. He heads the standardization activity in Tejas networks and is responsible for deciding the long-term roadmap of the company
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. 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 RAN. He was closely involved in the design of 3G/4G optical 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 aka 6G Framework/Vision document ITU-R M.2160 and is presently contributing to ITU minimum technical performance report and evaluation methodology for IMT 2030.
He has filed 16 patents (12 granted) 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.
Kannan Kadirvelu
At Altiostar, a Rakuten Symphony Company, Kannan is at the forefront of deploying cutting-edge Cloud Native LTE and NR Open RAN technologies. His leadership in engineering spans over few pivotal years, culminating in his current role as Vice President of Engineering, where he spearhead the software development, deployment, integration and enhancement of 3GPP/O-RAN networks.
The team’s commitment to innovation is evidenced by the successful rollout of hybrid-mode solutions for NSA and SA architectures. With a strong foundation in LTE and a strategic vision for 5G advancements, he is dedicated to propelling our company to new heights in the telecommunications field.
Kiran Kuchi
Professor Kiran Kuchi was born in September 1974 in Nellore district and hails from Udayagiri Taluk. He earned his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tirupati (1991–1995), followed by an M.Tech and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Arlington in 1998 and 2006, respectively.
From 1999 to 2007, he worked at Motorola and Nokia Research Labs, contributing to the development of 2G and 3G cellular systems. In 2008, he returned to India and joined IIT Madras, where he played a key role in establishing wireless technology research. In 2020, he became a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad.
Currently, Professor Kiran Kuchi is a prominent figure in India’s 6G Taskforce, shaping the nation’s 6G strategy and advising the government on its implementation. He leads India’s research and standardization efforts for 5G-Advanced and 6G technologies at international standards organizations, driving innovations in next-generation communication systems.
With over 200 international patents, including several recognized as essential to 5G standards, Professor Kuchi has made significant contributions to wireless technology. He is also the founder of WiSig Networks Pvt. Ltd., a startup incubated at IIT Hyderabad. Through this collaboration, IITH and WiSig have successfully developed and commercialized 5G base stations (currently in pre-commercial rollouts) and NB-IoT System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for terrestrial and satellite applications.
Luciano Leonel Mendes
Luciano Leonel Mendes is a full professor at the National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil, where he coordinates research activities in the Brasil 6G Project, a national initiative involving several universities to propose new solutions for the next generations of mobile networks. He also serves as the coordinator of the xGMobile EMBRAPII-Inatel Competence Center on 5G and 6G networks, which is responsible for creating an ecosystem for the development of future 5G and 6G networks in Brazil, involving industry, operators, verticals, academia, and government.
Mahesh Nayaka Mysore Annaiah
“I am currently working as an Assistant Vice President, Global Standards, Reliance Jio. I am having 27+ years of experience in Telecom wireless/ Mobile technology including GSM, WCDMA, SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, XG-PHS, Mobile WIMAX, LTE, 5G NR and 6G. I am working as a Chair for study group services and solutions in TSDSI, since 4 years. I am a deligate for SA1 and SA2 in 3gpp. I have 25+ filed patents.
Manook Soghomonian
Dr. Manook Soghomonian obtained his PhD from University of Wales Cardiff in 1991 in Electromagnetic Engineering. Following this, he completed Research Fellowships at King’s College London and Brunel University. He then joined the growing mobile telecommunication industry.
He has been in the Radio Telecom Industry from the early days of GSM and has remained in this industry working on UMTS, LTE and now on 5G NR Systems.
Over the years he has worked for Telecommunication Vendors, Test and Measurement Industry and for Mobile Network Operators. He has also been involved in the development of 3GPP Standards from early UMTS era to the current 5G NR Standards.
He is a Senior Manager with Intelsat where he is in charge of the Standardization of the Ku Band and other 5G-NR and NTN related Technologies. He is also an active participant and contributor of the 3GPP RAN4 Working Group.
His expertise is in Radio-Frequency Design, Radio Telecommunication Technologies, Mobile Networks and NTN/Satellite Networks.
Meik Kottkamp
Meik Kottkamp has almost 30 years of technology experience in the cellular industry. He is Principal Technology Manager Wireless for Rohde & Schwarz in Munich and responsible for strategic marketing and product portfolio development covering existing and new 3GPP technologies. His focus is on 5G NR, specifically private 5G for industrial applications, and 6G. Meik joined Rohde & Schwarz in August 2007 after working for 11 years for Siemens and NSN. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree of electrical and microwave engineering from the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
Mohammed Kyari Mustafa
Dr. Mohammed Kyari Mustafa is Vice-Chair of ITU-T Study Group 13 (Future Networks) and Vice-Chair of the African Regional Group SG13RG-AFR, contributing to global standardization in IMT-2020/2030 network architectures, cloud-native infrastructures, and AI-driven network orchestration. A Senior Manager in the Technical Standards and Network Integrity Department of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), where he oversees national alignment with evolving international telecom frameworks and leads initiatives in next-gen network deployment, QoS/QoE policy, and emerging technology regulation. Dr. Mustafa’s academic expertise lies in mobile speech recognition and dynamic neural architectures, with published research on on-device AI processing and real-time acoustic modelling. He actively promotes scalable tech integration in agriculture, health, and fintech through innovation-centric policy and technical leadership.
Mombasawala Mohmedsaeed
Mr 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. He has 35 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.
He 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.
His 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. He 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. He has an excellent skill on handling multiple tasks at the same time.
Namseok Ko
Dr Namseok Ko, Ph.D., is a Director in the network research division of ETRI, a non-profit research organization in Korea. He has been involved in various research projects including 5G and 6G core network systems since he joined ETRI in 2000. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in KAIST in 2000 and 2015, respectively.
He is also an adjunct associate professor at the University of Science and Technology (UST). He holds positions as Vice-Chair of SG11 at ITU-T, and serves as Vice-Chair of the Technology Committee and Chair of the Network Technology Working Group at Korea’s 6G Forum. His research interests encompass 5G/6G mobile core network architecture and enabling technologies, including network programmability, networking and computing convergence, and non-terrestrial networks.
Nandan Das
Nandan Das has over two decades of experience in satellite communications, primarily in the design of high-throughput Ka-band satellite systems. He currently leads Viasat’s Wireless Standards group, where he serves as the Global Head of Wireless Standards, working on the integration of satellite communications into 5G and 6G systems. He is the inventor on multiple patents and has authored numerous well-cited, peer-reviewed research articles. He has served on multiple boards and is currently a member of both the European Space Agency (ESA) NTN-Forum Steering Board and the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Advisory Board at San Diego State University.
In addition to his industry expertise, Dr. Das is a popular lecturer, teaching graduate engineering courses at both the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and San Diego State University (SDSU). Active in the community, he has trained multiple US National Physics Team members, serves as a judge in the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair, organizes events in the country’s largest Regional Science Olympiad (in San Diego County), and mentors engineers new to the profession.
Dr. Das obtained his PhD from UCSD, an MSEE from Stanford University, and a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.
Nanjangud C Narendra
Dr. Nanjangud C Narendra (NCN) is a retired Master Researcher at Ericsson Research, currently working as a Technologist in Artpark, IISC, Bangalore, and as Adjunct Faculty at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS). Prior to joining Ericsson, he worked in MS Ramaiah University, Cognizant, IBM Research, HP India and Motorola India. He has about 32 years R&D experience in the Indian IT industry. His research interests span Software Engineering, Workflow Management, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Edge Computing, Data Management and Analytics, 5G/6G applications, AI/ML applications. He has published over 120 papers in international conferences and journals. He has been Program Committee member for several key conferences such as Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), IEEE International Cloud Computing Conference; he was also Program Committee Chair for ICSOC (Industry track) in 2012 and ICSOC (Research track) in 2015. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Service Oriented Computing and Applications journal and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing journal. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.
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.
Neeraj Mittal
Dr. Neeraj Mittal, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, a senior Indian Administrative Service Officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, is a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, MBA from Cranfield University, UK and Ph.D from Ohio State University, USA in Management Information Systems.
He started his career as an IAS Officer in 1992. He has held various administrative positions in the fields of land and revenue management, mines and minerals, IT/Communications, e-governance. During his stint in Central deputation, he worked in Department of Telecom, Ministry of Commerce & Industry and Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
Niranth Amogh
Niranth is the head of the Architecture and Automation Research & Standards Team at Bengaluru, India. He is a Senior Expert in the domain of telecom and information networks research and industry standards with over 20 years of experience in pre-research and standardization activities. His research areas include 5G Advanced and 6G vertical industry applications and platforms for Mission Critical Communications, Edge Computing, API and enabler frameworks and Verticals (V2X, UAV, Smart Factories). He is an active contributor to global and regional standards bodies/forums (3GPP, 5GAA, TSDSI, B6GA) and is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of TSDSI SGSS group.
Nurit Sprecher
Nurit Sprecher, ETSI Fellow, is a multi-award-winning technology visionary and strategist with 30 years of global experience in the telecommunications industry. She heads Network Automation & Exposure in Nokia Standards and is a distinguished member of the Nokia Technical Committee.
Nurit has a strong track record in driving future network architectures, automation, exposure, and standardization, shaping the evolution toward 6G and beyond with a focus on enabling innovation, intelligent network and services, and monetization. She initiated and led the creation of ETSI ISG MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) and served as Vice Chair of ETSI ISG ZSM (Zero-touch network and Service Management).
Highly active in international industry and research communities — including ETSI, O-RAN ALLIANCE, GSMA, IETF, ITU-T, IEEE, and BBF — Nurit has participated in core discussions on the Next Generation Network with Tier-1 carriers and several governments. She has played a key role in aligning technical vision with business impact and is known for her ability to bring clarity, inspire collaboration, and influence industry direction.
N. Subramanian
As Executive Director, SETS he guides teams contributing to research in cybersecurity including cryptography & computing, hardware security, quantum security, and network security areas. Prior to joining SETS he had served at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) as Head R&D and has lead various government supported cybersecurity R&D projects.
He is contributing to the Cybersecurity Division of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) regarding R&D roadmap and initiatives. He is contributing as member in Expert the committee and Project Review & Steering Group (PRSG) committee(s) of MeitY, Computer Emergency Response Team – India (CERT-In), Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), 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.
Paventhan Arumugam
Dr Paventhan Arumugam is Senior Director (R&D)/ Scientist-G with ERNET India (autonomous society under the Ministry of Electronics and IT). At ERNET, he has handled R&D projects in various domains, including the Internet of Things, EU funded MyFIRE Future Internet, Educational Cloud, Visible Light Communications, Tactile Internet, QKD Network Security.
Before joining ERNET, Dr Paventhan held scientific and research positions at premier institutions such as the National Informatics Centre (HQ), New Delhi, C-DAC in Bangalore and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxford, UK.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of Internet Society (ISOC) and a Senior Member of ACM. His current research interests focus on protocols and standards for IoT, Cloud Computing, Quantum Communications and Software-Defined Networking.
Dr. Paventhan received his M.Tech in Computer Applications from IIT Delhi and his Ph.D in Computer Engineering from the University of Southampton, UK where he was awarded a research scholarship within the School of Engineering Sciences.
Parag Aggarwal
Parag Aggarwal is a Principal Project Associate at IIIT-Delhi, specializing in 5G and 6G wireless communication systems. He received his Ph.D. from IIIT-Delhi in 2019, with research focusing on MIMO-OFDM transceivers under hardware impairments. From 2021 to 2024, he worked at HFCL Limited as a 5G System Architect, leading the development of advanced Open Radio Unit architectures and RF optimization techniques. His interests include baseband processing, RF hardware impairments, software-defined radios, and AI/ML in PHY Layer. He has authored several IEEE publications and holds patents in wireless communication systems.
P HANUMANTHA RAO
Dr. Hanumantha Rao received his PhD from The Queen’s university, Belfast, UK, M.S. from BITS, Pilani and B.Tech. from SV University, India. He has more than 34 years of experience in Research and Development in RF, microwaves and mm-wave technologies for strategic and civilian sectors.
He has been working in SAMEER for the past 32 years after a brief stay at Space Applications Centre SAC (ISRO), Ahmedabad. As a scientist, in the initial part of his career and later as a senior member of the organisation, he has been actively involved in the implementation of various future driven next generation technologies for both strategic and societal applications for DRDO, MeitY and DoT. He has been part of multi-institute (IITM, IITB, IITD, IITK, IITH, IISc, CEWiT and SAMEER) collaborative research towards the development of Indigenous 5G solutions. He was part of 5G team and, demonstrated for the first time in India, a fully functional MIMO and Massive MIMO systems at sub 6-GHz band, and integrated mm-wave Tiled Phased array antennas. He was instrumental in building indigenous technologies, R&D facilities and executed various strategic projects to address the denied technologies to India. He actively participates in developing Indian standards for 5G and represented India at ITU global meetings. He contributed towards SoC, SoP and implemented Electromagnetic Band Gaps (EBG) and Metamaterial configurations in collaboration with Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA.
As a member of high-level committees at national level in driving the technology programs for India, he facilitated collaborative research between SAMEER-Academia and industry, both at national and international levels. He actively contributes in capacity building in terms of lectures, workshops and symposia and mentored number of scientific teams at various levels. He has guided more than 50 M.Tech. /MS students along with 11 PhDs. He is a member of Doctoral Committees for various IITs, NITs and reputed Indian universities. He created SAMEER-Academia interaction with various premier IITs and NITs.
Most of his work has been published in highly referred journals. Some of his publications are the most referred / popular articles for a long period in IEEE. He has more than 120 publications in IEEE/IEE/John Wiley and referred journals and conferences.
His current research areas include 6G solutions, intelligent reflecting surfaces, UAV detection and deactivation, Spectrum studies and RF SoC and Tiled Phased arrays systems.
Prabhu Rajagopal
With PhD and Post-doc from Imperial College London, UK and basic degrees from IIT Madras, India, Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal is an expert in automation and data engineering. With original contributions in the development of ultrasonic sensors, robotic platforms and secure data management, his academic work is widely recognised, receiving the Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2020). Prof. Prabhu has co-founded startups including Planys (submersible robots), Solinas (robotics for water/sanitation) and Xyma (high temperature ultrasonic sensors), that are disrupting the asset integrity monitoring space, with deep industrial and societal impact (contributing to elimination of manual scavenging for example through Solinas). His work on Blockchain and AI for secure management of medical records is commercialised through the Startup, Plenome that is working on bridging last mile connectivity gaps in healthcare. At IIT Madras, he heads the School of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and is recipient of the Institute R&D Award (2019 & 2025). He is a member of the Board of TECHIN the Startup Incubator of IIT Palakkad as well as their Global Sanitation Center of Excellence. He is recipient of the National Entrepreneurship Award (2019 for his work with Planys), Economic Times Startup Award ( 2022- Solinas) and National Technology Award (2023- Xyma) In recognition of his translation research, he was recipient of India’s highest award for mid-career scientists, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize (2024) in the inaugural category of ‘Technology and Innovation’
Pradeep Hirisave
Pradeep Hirisave has over 19 years of professional experience in the field of wireless communication. He has previously worked as a 3GPP protocol stack engineer, developing L2/L3 stacks for various telecom products. Following which, he served as a Product owner, focusing on in-house consumer wireless products such as pocket routers, CPEs, and Telematics Control Units/OBD dongles in the automotive domain. In this role, he has successfully delivered numerous products to the market commercially and at scale.
Currently, his efforts are directed towards telecom standardization for 5G and beyond focussing on works going on within TSDSI, 3GPP, and GSMA. He holds over 40 granted patents in the field of wireless communications. Additionally, he has worked on various IoT/IIoT projects, including smart agriculture, smart city initiatives, and smart electricity meters.
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.
Pranav Jha
Mr Pranav Jha has 20+ years of R&D experience in communication & networking technologies with expertise in the area of wireless networking. He currently works with IIT Bombay as a senior Scientist. His current research interest lies in Broadcast-Broadband Convergence, Rural Broadband Communication and Network Architecture for 5G & beyond. He has published many research papers and has multiple patents filed & issued.
He has also participated in workshops / panel discussions in global conferences and delivered tutorials. He is an active participant in standardization of wireless networking technology too, has made contributions to IEEE and 3GPP standards and currently chairs two IEEE working groups, “Frugal 5G Networks – IEEE P2061” and “SDN based Middleware for Control and Management of Networks – IEEE P1930.1”.
Priyanka Dey
She has 9 years of experience in the field of wireless communications focused in 5G and beyond standards and research and currently associated with Fraunhofer HHI, Germany. She had completed her Masters from IIT Bhubaneswar and joined CEWiT in 2016. In the subsequent years, she had been actively involved in the TSDSI standards, 3GPP standards and also ITU-R WP5D. She has also been the Vice Chair of TSDSI SGN for a short while. Currently, she is focused in the area of full duplex communications and non-terrestrial networks.
Puneet Jain
Puneet Jain is a Senior Principal Engineer and Senior Director of Technical Standards at Intel Corporation. Within this role, he leads the Network Standards team, spearheading research and standardization efforts in the realm of end-to-end network architecture for cutting-edge mobile broadband technologies such as 5G, 5G-Adv, and 6G. Puneet is the current 3GPP TSG SA Chair. Prior to this, he served as the 3GPP SA2 Chair (2019 – 2023) and as the 3GPP SA2 Vice-Chair (2015 – 2019). Additionally, he has held key roles such as TSDSI Global SDO Task Force co-chair (2021 – 2022) and oneM2M Steering Committee Vice-Chair (2014 – 2016).
Punit Rathod
Dr. Punit Rathod (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has more than 15 years of wireless research and development experience. He has a diverse experience of working as an academic researcher and a co- founder of a startup with deployed equipment in public-safety agencies in India and multinational companies. He has contributed to national and international standardization efforts at 3GPP, IEEE, and ITUR. His recent work has been focused on spectrum and standardization as a Lead-Technical Standards with Qualcomm Standards and Industry Organization. Recently he is the DG Chair of 7-8 GHz for WRC-27 Agenda Item 1.7 in ITU-R WP5D.
Radha Krishna Ganti
Radha Krishna Ganti is a 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 research interests include digital communications, convex optimisation, cellular systems and building communication systems. 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 involved in the development of 5G base stations for the 5G testbed project funded by DOT and is currently involved in the development of 6G THz testbeds. He was awarded the Vignan Yuva Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award for the year 2024 in the Engineering Sciences by the Govt. of India.
Raghuram Krishnapuram
Raghu Krishnapuram is a Senior Scientist at the Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), FSID, Indian Institute of Science. His work experience spans both academia and industry across continents over almost four decades. Raghu is an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. He worked in academia in the US until the year 2000. Between 2000 and 2015, he held various technical leadership positions at IBM Research India and IBM T J Watson Centre, NY, USA, where he led projects in the area of ‘Knowledge, Information, and Smarter Planet Solutions’ and ‘Cognitive Computing,’ with a particular focus on emerging markets. Raghu was with Xerox Research Centre – India, during 2015-16. Most recently, he was with the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and ARTPRAK, IISc, Bangalore.
Raghu’s research encompasses many aspects of machine learning, computer vision, text analytics, artificial intelligence, and data mining. He has published over 180 papers in international journals and conferences. Many of his publications have a very high citation count, with the overall count exceeding 15,000. Raghu is a recipient of many best paper awards, including the IEEE Neural Network Council Best Paper. He has been recognized as a Master Inventor by IBM and has filed over 40 patent disclosures at the US Patent Office. Raghu is a Fellow of IEEE and the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE).
Rajagopalan Rajappa
RajaGopalan Rajappa (RajaG) currently serves as the CTO of Communication Technologies and Platforms at Tata Elxsi. He leads solutions for Telco and automotive industries in Softwarization, Orchestration, Digital Twin, Connected Vehicles, and Edge solutions using open systems and open platforms. With over 25 years at Tata Elxsi, he has designed RAN systems, scheduler algorithms, and software stacks for small cells and broadband wireless communication systems. RajaG holds patents in Connected CAR and V2X in the EU and NA
Rajat Agarwal
A passionate telco professional with 18+ experience having diverse skills and proven experience in Product management and Pre-sales of 4G/5G RAN/O-RAN radio products and services, AI/GenAI network platforms and network evolution consulting areas. Driven with a believer to 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦, 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐞 and 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 the future of mobile networks at Tech Mahindra that brings tangible value to the industry and driving initiatives in building future-ready networks for 𝐀𝐈-𝐑𝐀𝐍, 𝐍𝐓𝐍, and 𝟔𝐆.
R K Pathak
Mr. Rajesh Pathak, Director General of Bharat 6G Alliance, joined the Government of India in 1987. He has played a pivotal role in shaping India’s telecom policy and innovation landscape. A key architect of TSDSI, TEPC, and the 5G India roadmap, he led initiatives like the PLI Scheme, Digital Communication Innovation Square, and 6G Vision. He has championed indigenous manufacturing, global standards, and startup innovation, driving India’s leadership in next-gen telecom technologies.
Sandeep Sharma
Sandeep Sharma is a dynamic telecom leader with more than 20 years of expertise in pioneering next-gen wireless technologies, including 5G, O-RAN, AI-powered networks and now 6G. As Vice President & Global Head of Emerging Technologies – Network Services at Tech Mahindra, Sandeep spearheads cutting-edge innovation, forges strategic partnerships, and shapes industry standards, driving the future of telecommunications.
A recognized thought leader, Sandeep is a frequent contributor to high-impact forums and has authored numerous influential whitepapers, helping to steer the industry towards the next frontier of 6G.
Additionally, Mr Sandeep Sharma is the Vice Chair of 6G Use case and Revenue stream -Working Group at Bharat 6G Alliance where he is leading the identification and prioritization of 6G use cases tailored to India’s unique needs. Driving collaboration across industry, academia, and government to shape practical, AI-enabled 6G solutions that support India’s digital transformation and global leadership in next-gen networks.
Satish Jamadagni
Satish Jamadagni is currently Senior Vice President and head of Global Standards at Reliance Jio. He has about 25 years of industry experience in the telecom domain. He is the current Chair of TSDSI (Previously Vice Chair of TSDSI). He is active in 3GPP, GSMA (member of the Strategy Group) 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 and around 30+ published papers.
Saurabh Khare
Saurabh Khare is the Chair of the Security Working Group in TSDSI and heads the Nokia SA3 delegation. He has served as rapporteur for multiple key studies in both 3GPP SA3 and TSDSI, contributing significantly to the evolution of mobile network security, including 5G and emerging 6G technologies. A consistent top inventor at Nokia globally, Saurabh has filed over 500 IPRs across a wide range of security domains, reflecting his deep technical expertise and innovation-driven approach. His work spans critical areas such as AI/ML security and next-generation architecture design and security
Seizo Onoe
Mr Seizo Onoe is the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union, the Secretariat of ITU-T. He was elected to the post of Director of the TSB for the term 2023-2026 at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 (PP-22).
Prior to being elected, he had a career with Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO for over thirty years. As of 2021, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Standardization Strategy Officer for the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation as well as simultaneously a Fellow of NTT DOCOMO.
Between 2017 and 2021, he served as NTT DOCOMO’s Chief Technology Architect as well as President of the DOCOMO Technology subsidiary.
From 2012 until 2017, he held the position of Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, (Member of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of R&D Innovation Division) at NTT DOCOMO. Prior to this, he served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of NTT DOCOMO’s R&D Strategy Department and Managing Director of the company’s Radio Network Development Department
Sonali Garg
Dr Sonali Garg obtained her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, focused on low density parity check codes. She is currently working with HFCL Limited as senior member of technical staff, where she focuses on standards research and generating SEPs. The research area of her team is diverse, and she is interested in 6G research. Her 6G research focuses on integrated sensing and communication, channel coding, and waveform designing and Energy Efficiency.
Sridhar C V
Mr. Sridhar CV leads alliances and ecosystem partnerships for the Quantum Computing incubation team at TCS. He has 25+ years of experience across financial services, telecom, transportation, and government solutions and specializes in quantum computing, AI, ML, drones, and robotics.
He represents TCS on the Bureau of Indian Standards (SC41) and ITU National Working Group 13. He has played a key role in quantum computing applications with partners like Microsoft and fosters corporate-startup collaborations through TCS’s Co-Innovation Network. Mr. Sridhar holds a degree in electronics and communication from JNTU Hyderabad and a strategic management certification from IIM Indore.
Subhas Mondal
Mr Subhas leads the R&D efforts for 5G product development at HFCL as a senior vice president. In this role, he works with academia, standards development organisations, open source and technology partners. The portfolio includes standards and research in 5G and 6G, product portfolio includes 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, he 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. He has over 30 years of engineering experience in Telecom Research & Development. He is responsible for driving standards contribution, academic collaboration, innovation partnership with technology partners, open source contribution and solution building in 5G. He is a passionate technologist and has developed a variety of solutions & frameworks in emerging technology areas such as 5G, SDN/NFV, Li-Fi, Cyber Security and AI for Network Automation. He holds an engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering.
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 25 years of experience in the mobile technology industry and is responsible for research and standardization of emerging wireless and connectivity technologies in global and regional standardization bodies such as 3GPP, ITU, FiRa, IEEE 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 holds a Master of Science degree, in Computer Sciences from University of North Texas, a graduate of Executive Thought Leadership program from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), and an accomplished individual with several publications and granted patents
Suresh Kumar Karthikeyan
Mr Suresh is a wireless network enthusiast and open source supporter. After completing his bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering at College of Engineering Guindy, he pursued his interest in building wireless and cellular communication networks including LTE, 5G, Low Power Wide Area Networks, Low Power Personal Area Network and Ultra Wideband Networks over a decade. He is currently pursuing master’s research in 5G non-cellular Radio Access Network at IIT Madras. He has established Susan Future Technologies Private Limited in 2021 to bring to life his vision of a sustainable future.
TR Reshmi
Dr. TR Reshmi is currently working as a Scientist under Cryptology and Computing Research group in Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS) Chennai Under Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. Her active projects are in the areas of Blockchain, IoT Security, 5G Security, Malware Analysis, and the application of AI/ML in Cybersecurity.
Dr. Reshmi, an alumnus of Anna University, Chennai, received her Ph.D in Information & Communication Engineering from Anna University in 2015. Currently, she has around 15 years of industrial, academic and research experience in the field of computer science and engineering. She has delivered several keynote addresses and presented papers in a number of reputed national and international conferences and also has authored many papers in SCI and Scopus Indexed technical journals. Further, to her credit, Dr Reshmi has many patents approved and under progress for approval.
She is an active member of several professional societies and forums such as IETF, ISOC, IPv6 forum, IAENG, etc. She contributes as a subject matter expert and content developer for technical reports of the TSDSI, particularly in the domain of IoT. Additionally, she is an active member of the ISO and BIS, participating in the LITD 29 Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies and the LITD 19 Committee on E-Learning standardization.
Vinayak Godse
Vinayak Godse is the CEO of Data Security Council of India. He has over 30 years of experience
in Information Security, IT Transformation, Intelligent Networking and Telecom
Infrastructure.
Vinayak also oversees the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for Cybersecurity Technology
and Entrepreneurship, a joint initiative of DSCI and the Ministry of Electronics & IT. NCoE is
engaged in cybersecurity industry building, fostering security research and product
engineering, and building an ecosystem for security entrepreneurship.
He has been deeply engaged with all initiatives of DSCI with government stakeholders and
sectoral regulators. He was instrumental in developing DSCI Security Framework (DSF), DSCI
Privacy Framework (DPF) and DSCI Certified Privacy Lead Assessor (DCPLA), DSCI Certified
Privacy Professional (DCPP) certifications and conducted many of these training programs.
Prior to DSCI, he worked with the Global Consulting Practice of TCS in Information Risk
Management and also worked as a Telecom Engineer at BSNL. He started his career as a
lecturer in Electronics Engineering.
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.
Vipin Rathi
Vipin Rathi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi, specializing in 5G/6G, cryptography, blockchain and distributed computing. He serves as the Chairperson of the Hyperledger Telecom Special Interest Group under the Linux Foundation and is a Board Member at the OpenInfra Foundation Asia. He actively organizes various technology communities, including OpenStack India, Magma India, NgKore, CNCF, Open Edge Computing, and Hyperledger. His research interests encompass 5G/6G networks, ORAN, multi-domain orchestration, post-quantum encryption, and blockchain-defined networking. Furthermore, he advises various startups and enterprises on next-generation technologies.
Vishnu Ram
Vishnu, Consultant TSDSI, has hands-on experience in the field of Telecom industry for more than 27 years, developing and implementing standards, and holds many international granted patents. He 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).
He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His current passion includes coordinating standards initiatives, industry bodies, open source and academia, mentoring student projects and coordinating the ITU “AI/ML in 5G“ Challenge across the globe. He also curates and moderates webinars under the ITU Machine learning 5G webinar series and AI for Good. Vishnu was nominated as Scientific Advisory Board Associate (SABA) member of Motorola Networks and is a senior member of IEEE.
Vivek Chaudhary
Prof. Vivek Chaudhary is an Assistant Professor at Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, where he leads research on enhancing the security and efficiency of next-generation wireless communication systems. His work spans novel waveform design, full-duplex radio architectures, and the convergence of sensing and communication technologies to elevate network performance and maximize resource utilization. Before transitioning to academia, he brought his expertise to the industry as a Senior Engineer at Lekha Wireless Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, and as an Assistant Manager (Global Standards) at Reliance Jio Infocomm—contributing to cutting-edge innovations in wireless standards and solutions.
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