IEEE ComSoc International Communications Quality and Reliability Workshop
14-17 May 2018 – Austin, Texas, USA

Tuesday Speakers

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Opening Keynote: 
Maria Gallucci
Energy Journalism Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin

Network Segment Chair
Vikas Arora
Export Development Canada
Director for Advanced Technologies
Network Session 1 – Critical Infrastructure Protection for Communications
Spilios Makris (Chair)
Palindrome Technologies
Director – Network Resilience & Business Continuity Management
Josh Miner
Iridium
VP & GM – Land Mobile Business Unit
Pasi Hurri
baseN
CEO
Oscar Marcia
eOnti
Founder and CEO

Technical Papers Session #1 – 
Hede Nakazato (Technical Program Co-Chair)
Waseda University
Professor
Kai Zeng (Technical Program Co-Chair)
George Mason University
Professor
Masakazu Muramatsu
The University of Electro-Communications
Professor
Mohammed Olama
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Research & Development Staff
Yusaku Hayamizu
Kansai University
Graduate Engineering Student

Network Session 2 – 5G: RAN & Core
Ian Wong (Chair)
National Instruments
Senior Group Manager, Advanced Wireless Research
Sue Monahan
Small Cell Forum
CEO
Ross Cassan
Spirent Communications PLC
Director of Product Marketing – Mobility Infrastructure
Vidya Krishnan
Ericsson
Head of Competence & Capability Consulting, Learning Services

Technical Papers Session #2 – 
Vahid Esmaeelzadeh
California State University – East Bay
Postdoc Research Scholar
Teng Joon Lim
National University of Singapore
Professor

Network Session 3 – Security
Francois Cosquer (Chair)
Nokia
CTO- Security

 

Mark Durbin
Verizon
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Carl Herberger
Radware
Vice President of Security
Bin Xie
InfoBeyond Technology, LLC
CEO