Panel: What’s Next on 5G?

Peter is currently leading the Standardization Research lab within Bell Labs at Nokia. The lab is responsible for developing holistic concepts and innovations for 3GPP Access and Core networks as well as automation breakthroughs in network and service automation. Peter received his Master of Science degree on electrical Engineering in 1995 from the University Stuttgart, Germany. In 1996 he joined the Siemens Mobile Networks division and started to work on GSM technology.

Peter Vetter is Head of the A-Lab (or Access research lab) in Nokia Bell Labs and Bell Labs Fellow. He is leading an eminent global team with the mission to invent game changing innovations that define the future of mobile and fixed access. Under his leadership, he and his teams have realized several world-first system demonstrations in access and successfully transferred industry leading concepts into product.

Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. He is now VP and General Manager of 5G Laboratory in NTT DOCOMO, INC. Mr. Nakamura has been working for research and development of the W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced, 5G and C-V2X/Connected Car technologies. He has been engaged in the standardization activities at ARIB in Japan since 1997.

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is a Professor of Computer Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is also a Professor of Radiology at the NYU School of Medicine. Rappaport is the founding director of NYU WIRELESS, one of the world’s first academic research centers to combine wireless engineering, computer science, and medicine.

Upamanyu Madhow is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests broadly span communications, signal processing and networking, with current emphasis on next generation communication, sensing and inference infrastructures centered around millimeter wave systems. Dr. Madhow is a recipient of the 1996 NSF CAREER award, and co-­‐recipient of the 2012 IEEE Marconi prize paper award in wireless communications.

Ali Yazdan is an Engineer at Facebook’s Connectivity Lab in Menlo Park California where he works with a small team of innovators in developing ways to make affordable internet access possible in communities around the world. The team is exploring a variety of technologies, including high-altitude long-endurance planes, satellites and lasers. For more information please visit: www.internet.org.

David Gesbert (IEEE Fellow) is Professor and Head of the Communication Systems Department, EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France. He obtained the Ph.D degree from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France, in 1997. From 1997 to 1999 he has been with the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. He was then a founding engineer of Iospan Wireless Inc, a Stanford spin off pioneering MIMO-OFDM (now Intel).

David Eckard joined Alcatel in 1998 and is currently the CTO for the Fixed Networks Division of Nokia overseeing the technology development for products relating to the xDSL, cable and optical access markets. David received his BS degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and his MS degree in Computer Networking from North Carolina State University.