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Richard Burbidge

Richard Burbidge is a Senior Principal Engineer with Intel Corporation. With 25 years of experience in the wireless industry, he has been involved with the development of cellular standards since 1998, and has been a 3GPP delegate since its inception in 1999. Over this time he has contributed to 3 generations of cellular technology, firstly UMTS, then LTE, and now 5G NR. He is currently serving as the chairman of the 3GPP TSG RAN 2 committee that is responsible for the specification of the layer 2 and 3 radio interface protocols for LTE and 5G NR, having previously served as the vice chairman from 2005-2009. Richard received his degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1993.

Yang Tang

Dr. Yang Tang is a Principal Engineer and manager at Intel's Next Generation and Standard organization. He leads Intel's effort in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) working group 4 with focusing on specifying 3G/4G/5G RF performance, protocol and the minimum requirements for transmission and reception. Yang's expertise include signal processing, MIMO, radio resource management and cross-layer optimization. As an industry well recognized expert in standardization and research, Yang has been appointed to various leadership positions in 3GPP and IEEE including specification editor and rapporteurs etc. He is an established innovator with 100+ granted patents on mobile communication systems. Prior to Intel, he has worked for Samsung and Huawei for modem development and standardization including HSPA, LTE/LTE-A and Wimax. Yang received his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Sydney in 2006.

Haijie Qiu

Haijie Qiu, graduated from China academy of telecomm and technology (CATT) with Master degree in 2009. He has 10 years working experience in 3GPP and has made over than 800 3GPP contributions in 3GPP RAN4. He has been 3GPP RAN4 delegate since 2011 and has been Samsung RAN4 head of delegation since 2015. He severed as rapporteur of several WIs in LTE including CoMP, FD-MIMO and eFD-MIMO. He is NR specification rapporteur for 38.101-4 on UE Performance requirements. He chaired multiple LTE/NR topics in RAN4.

Xutao Zhou

Xutao Zhou received his Master Degree in Telecommunications from University of Warwick, UK. Mr. Zhou joined the Standard Research Team in Samsung Research China Beijing in 2007, focusing on standardization of mobile communications. Mr. Zhou was elected as 3GPP RAN4 Chairman in 2015. Since then, Mr. Zhou has been chairing the 3GPP RAN4 meetings for defining the radio frequency requirements for 5G NR and LTE.