Date/Subject/Speaker

Date: Wed. Dec 9, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:U.S. Public Policy Issues Facing Telecommunications Carriers

Speaker:Chris Boyer, VP of AT&T

Biography:Chris Boyer from AT&T will provide an overview of some of the technology trends that are currently impacting the telecommunications industry and how those trends are driving a host of public policy issues that are currently being discussed in Washington, D.C. Mr. Boyer will provide an overview of the changes AT&T is seeing in the industry, a high level general discussion of the range of issues policymakers are encountering in Washington and offer some thoughts on AT&T's perspective.

Date: Wed. Nov 11, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Mobile Broadband driven by Convergence of IP and LTE technologies

Speaker:Arpit Joshipura and Ali Khayrallah, Ericsson Silicon Valley

Biography:Arpit Joshipura is the Vice-President, Strategy & Market Development, at Ericsson Silicon Valley. Arpit is Ericsson’s driver of Convergence Vision and Transformation Strategy to Operators and outbound audience worldwide including Silicon Valley Ecosystem partners. Focus areas include All-IP End to End Convergence across Fixed and Mobile architectures (eg 4G/SAE/EPC, IPTV, Backhaul, Edge, Metro, Applications). Arpit moved to Ericsson from Redback where he was the VP of Product Management, Marketing, Standards and Solutions (CTO/CMO Role), responsible for the strategic success of Redback ’s flagship SmartEdge router family and its acquisition through Ericsson. Prior to Redback , Mr. Joshipura was the Vice President of Portfolio Management CIENA/ONI focusing on Metro Ethernet and Optical Architectures. He has also held senior leadership positions in Engineering at Caspian Networks and Nortel Networks.
Ali Khayrallah is Director of Research at Ericsson in North America. His group works on projects in current and future cellular systems. He has been with Ericsson since 1995, in various research positions. Previously, he was Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Delaware. His interests are in research and technology for wireless communications. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.Eng. from the American University of Beirut. He holds more than 50 US patents and has published more than 50 technical papers, and received the Ericsson Inventor of the Year award

Date: Wed. Oct 14, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Intel's Vision for the Future of Wireless Communications

Speaker:Siavash Alamouti, CTO, Intel's Mobile Wireless Group

Biography:Siavash Alamouti is an Intel Fellow in the Mobility Group and Chief Technology Officer for the Mobile Wireless Group of Intel. In this role, he is responsible for all wireless standards with a product roadmap at Intel. This includes the WiMAX Forum, IEEE 802.16, 3GPP, OMA, WiFi Alliance, IEEE 802.11,etc. He is also known as the technical champion of WiMAX technology at Intel.

Date: Wed. Sept 9, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Internet as an Information & Communications Utility: It's Getting Personal

Speaker:Dr. Wei-Min Lu, CTO, Anchora

Biography:DWei-Min Lu is currently the CTO of Anchora (http://www.anchora.info), a provider of personalized information discovery and management services. As an expert in information storage and retrieval, machine learning, information security, Internet, and decision and control, he has extensive experience in developing complete solutions to meet market and industry needs; He served in key engineering and management positions at IBM, Hitachi, Tesaria, and NASA-JPL. He was the president of IEEE ComSoc - SCV from 2002 to 2004. He received the Ph.D. (EE/Math) from CalTech and B.Sc. from Tsinghua University, China. Wei-Min can be reached at weimlu@gmail.com.

Date: Wed. July 13, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:The WiMax Progress - standands and deployment

Speaker:Dr. Ching-Tarng Hsieh, Director of the WiMAX Forum Taiwan Office

Biography:Dr. Ching-Tarng Hsieh has more than 20 years experience in information and communications technologies including WiMAX, WLAN, 5ESS, 4ESS, IS-95, cdma_2000, and UMTS systems. He has worked in systems engineering, architecture, software development, and project management with extensive experience in switching system and protocol software development.
Dr. Ching-Tarng Hsieh received his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin. He worked at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies for 15 years before joining the Industrial Technology Research Institute. He is now an Engineering Director of the Information & Communications Laboratories responsible for technology development and promotion of wireless industry. Dr. Hsieh works with WiMAX Forum and the WiMAX community extensively to promote WiMAX globally and is now Director of the WiMAX Forum Taiwan Office. He is also the chair of International Collaboration Group of the Networked Communications Program in Taiwan responsible for promoting international collaboration and standards participation.

Date: Wed. June 10, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:VoIP for Wireless

Speaker:Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

Biography:Prof. Henning Schulzrinne received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill and an associate department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin), before joining the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at Columbia University, New York. He is currently chair of the Department of Computer Science.
Protocols co-developed by him, such as RTP, RTSP and SIP, are now Internet standards, used by almost all Internet telephony and multimedia applications. His research interests include Internet multimedia systems, ubiquitous computing, mobile systems, quality of service, and performance evaluation. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Date: May 30, 2009, 1:30 - 5:30PM

Title:Mobile Broadband Ecosystem in Pacific Rim

Date: May 13, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Semiconductor Evolution to 4G: Mobile WiMAX, LTE, and other 4G technologies

Meeting Summary: by Alan Weissberger.

Date: Wed. April 8, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Efficient Sensor Networks for Smart Environments

Speaker:Huang Lee, Stanford University

Biography:Huang Lee is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Nation Taiwan University, and two master's degrees, one in Communication Engineering from National Taiwan University, and one in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
During 2000-2004, he was a research assistant in Communication System Lab at National Taiwan University, where his research includes multiuser communications, coded DS/CDMA systems, and multi-rate OFDM-CDMA systems. In 2004, he joined Stanford Wireless Sensor Networks Lab, where he is developing data collection and wakeup scheduling algorithms for multi-cluster wireless sensor networks, and vision-based localization and reasoning algorithms for smart camera networks. His current research interests focus on convex optimization and its applications in wireless sensor networks.
His industry experience includes affiliation with Groundhog Technologies as a consultant researcher in 2004, and with Bosch Research and Technology Center during 2005-2008, where he works on the energy-efficient algorithm design for wireless sensor networks.

Date: Wed. March. 25, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Mobile WiMAX Update and 802.16m

Speaker:Dr. Hassan Yaghoobi, Intel

Biography:Hassan Yaghoobi received a B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1989 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, in 1993 and 2000, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. His academic research interests include Nonlinear Control Theory, Communications Theory, and Digital Signal Processing. Hassan’s industrial experience includes communications systems engineering, silicon design/specification, and standards development in the area of broadband communications. Since 2000, he has been working at Intel Corporation. As a senior systems architect for Intel’s Broadband Product Group, he worked on silicon design specifications, algorithm design, system design verification, and validation of various cable modem products. He represented Intel at the DOCSIS standard committees at Cablelabs. Hassan is currently working as a Principal Wireless Systems Architect for Intel’s Mobile Wireless Standard and Advance Technology. He is a member of the ETSI BRAN and IEEE 802.16 and 802.20 working groups and a senior member of IEEE Standard Association. He also serves as WiMAX Forum Technical Working Group vice-chair, an industry group focused on interoperability of systems that conform to the IEEE 802.16 standard. Prior to Intel, he worked on design and modeling of wireless terrestrial and satellite receivers for Stanford Telecom and on RF network design of mobile wireless systems for LCC International.

Date: Wed. March. 11, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Frontiers in Internet Law

Speaker:Eric Goldman, Professor, Santa Clara University

Biography:Eric Goldman is an Associated Professor of Law and Director of Internet Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law. Before he became a full-time academic, he praticed Internet law for 8 years in the Silicon Valley. He teaches Cyberspace Law and Intellectual Property, and his research focuses on Internet and marketing law topics such as search engines, spam and adware. He blogs on internet law topics at the Technology & Marketing Law Glog [http://blog.ericgoldman.org].

Date: Wed. Feb. 11, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Convergence in Home Networking: Broadband over Powerline

Speaker: Chano Gomez, VP Of Technology and Strategy, DS2

Biography:Chano Gomez is Vice President for Technology and Strategic Partnerships at DS2. He joined DS2 in 1999 as a Design Engineer in their System Architecture Group. He has worked on the design and development of DS2's 45 Mb/s and 200 Mb/s Power Line Communications chipsets and holds 6 international patents on Power Line Communications technology. Mr. Gomez is currently actively involved in the development of PHY/MAC standards at IEEE P1901 (powerline) and ITU-T G.hn (powerline/phoneline/coaxial). He is chairman of HomeGrid Forum's "G.hn Contributions Working Group". Mr. Gomez holds a master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain).

Date: Wed. Jan. 14, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Self-Organizing Network and Mobile Broadband

Speaker: Jay Iyer, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems

Biography:Jay Iyer is a distinguished engineer at Cisco Systems. He is currently responsible for setting Cisco's mobility products technology strategy. He has over 16 years of experience in designing and developing products in routing, switching, wireless and service aggregation. He holds numerous patents in the area of network and wireless convergence. Jay holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Masters from Ohio State University.