Speaker

Bio

Wanshi Chen

Wanshi Chen is currently a 3GPP TSG RAN1 – a work group responsible for physical layer over-the-air standardization -- Chairman appointed in August 2013.

Wanshi Chen has over 19 years of experiences in telecommunications in leading telecom companies including operators, infrastructure vendors, and chipset vendors. From 2006, he has been with Qualcomm Corporate R&D contributing to system design, prototyping and implementation, and standardization of 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced and more recently 5G (New Radio or NR). He has been attending 3GPP TSG RAN1 for 11 years, representing Qualcomm and playing an instrumental role in 4G and 5G standardization, as a Vice Chairman from August 2013 for 4 years, and as Chairman starting from August 2017. From 2000 to 2006, he worked at Ericsson, San Diego, responsible for 3GPP2 related system design, integration, and standardization. During 1996 and 1997, he worked as an engineer for China Mobile, primarily participated in wireless network maintenance and performance optimization.

Wanshi Chen is a recipient of Qualcomm’s IP Excellence Award, Upendra Patel Achievement Awards for Outstanding Contributions to LTE, and Super Qualstar Award from Qualcomm CRD.

The highest degree that Wanshi Chen has received is a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Alex

Chia-Chun Hsu

MediaTek Inc. is a leading fabless IC design company in semiconductor industry and one of major contributors of 5G NR standardization and product.

After received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Alex Hsu has actively participated 3GPP standards since 2008 for 4G LTE (Rel-8 to 15) on RAN2 (L2/3) and cross L1/2/RRC/NAS topics. From 2017, lead MediaTek 3GPP RAN2 team on 5G NR research and standardization.

Currently served as rapporteur of R-16 capability enhancement study.

Sergio Parolari

Sergio is a Standards Manager in ZTE's Radio Standards department. He represents ZTE in 3GPP RAN and RAN WG2 groups. As part of this activity he's also the rapporteur of the Stage 2 specification on "Multi-connectivity". He also supports ZTE product marketing activities for 5G in Europe. 
Sergio has 20 years of experience in telecommunication technologies, in R&D and standardization environments. Before joining ZTE in 2010, he worked for Siemens and then Nokia, covering different positions, starting as System Engineer for the design of algorithms and procedures for mobile networks equipments, then as Standardization Specialist representing his company in different 3GPP and ETSI standard bodies and finally as Technical Product Manager driving the definition of new products for evolved 3G and LTE wireless systems. Sergio holds a M.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. 

Chenghock Ng

NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. I joined NEC Corporation in 1990 as an engineer and involved in developing the PDC (Personal Digital Cellular) system in Japan.

In 1997 I started the 3G (3rd Generation mobile system) related activitives that involved participation in TTC (Telecommunication Technology Committee) and ARIB(Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) in Japan as well as in ITU-T standardization.

I have also been working on the development of NEC's 3G RAN(Radio Access Network) and 4G LTE products, such as RNC (Radio Network Controller) and eNode B. Currently, my duties include 5G standardization in 3GPP and managing a standards team in NEC.

I have been actively participating in 3GPP RAN-WG3 and plenary meetings since 1999, starting from the very first RAN-WG3 meeting. From 2001 to 2009, I served as Vice Chairman of RAN-WG3.

Hiromasa Umeda

10+ years in 3GPP standards

•Active participant in the 3GPP standards since 2008 August

•Experience specifically in UE RF and spectrum-related topics.

Leadership experience: Vice chairman of RAN4 2015 Aug – present

•Rel13 NB-IOT (all the topics on UE RF/Demod/RRM, BS RF/Demod)

•Rel14 NR SI (all the topics on UE RF/Demod/RRM, BS RF)

•Rel15 LTE RF and NR UE RF topics