th
4 ETSI TC ITS Workshop
http://www.etsi.org/ITSWORKSHOP
SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
7 – 9 February 2012
Doha
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About ETSI
ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio,
converged, aeronautical, broadcast and internet technologies and is
officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards
Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit association whose more than 700 member
companies and organizations, drawn from 62 countries across 5 continents worldwide, determine
its work programme and participate directly in its work.
For more information please visit: http://www.etsi.org.
About QUWIC
QUWIC (www.quwic.com) is an applied research and development
center founded by Qatar University in Collaboration with and located at
the Qatar Science &Technology Park (QSTP) to leverage the use of
emerging wireless and mobile technologies in creating smart solutions
and applications targeting a number of markets including
Transportation, Utilities, Healthcare, Environment, etc.
QUWIC is emerging as a regional leader in developing and deploying Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS) and Applications targeting Qatar and the region. The ITS platform developed by
QUWIC will deliver rich services and applications covering traffic monitoring, traveler info
services, fleet management, multi-modal and cooperative ITS, and Car-to-X services.
To support its development and field trial activities, QUWIC is building a rich and comprehensive
ITS lab.
About the Sponsor
Qatar Foundation established Qatar National Research Fund
(QNRF) in 2006 as part of its ongoing commitment to establish
Qatar as a knowledge-based economy. Qatar Foundation views
research as essential to national and regional growth and as the
means to diversify the nation’s economy, enhance educational
offerings and develop areas that affect the community, such as
health and environment.
QNRF aims to foster original, competitively selected research in engineering and technology,
physical and life sciences, medicine, humanities, social sciences and the arts. In addition to
funding, QNRF aims to encourage dialogue and partnerships.
QNRF Programs and activities include:
• Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP)
• National Priorities Research Program (NPRP)
• Young Scientists Research Experience Program (YSREP)
• Secondary Schools Research Experience program (SSREP)
• Conferences, Workshops and Short Courses (CWSP)
• Qatar National Research Survey (QNRS)
• Distinguished Fellowships
Vision & Mission The Vision In response to the national needs of the State of Qatar, Qatar
Foundation has set forth an ambitious vision of research and its benefits: Qatar Foundation
envisions research as a catalyst for expanding and diversifying the country’s economy; enhancing
the education of its citizens and the training of its workforce; and fostering improvements in the
health, well-being, environment, and security of its own people and those of the region. In
striving toward this vision, Qatar will distinguish itself within the region and world as a
cosmopolitan nation that embraces scholarly excellence, innovation, creativity, inclusiveness, and
merit. The Mission The mission of Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) directly supports this
vision: QNRF will advance knowledge and education by supporting original, competitively selected
research in physical, life, and social sciences, engineering and technology, the arts and
humanities. It will provide opportunities for researchers at all levels, from students to
professionals, in the private, public, and academic sectors.
SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Eng. Mohamed ABDAH, Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, Qatar
Director of Transportation & Infrastructure Planning Department
Eng. Mohamed received a bachelor degree in civil engineering in 1985 and is a member of
the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He worked in Australia for almost 20 years including
16 years with VicRoads ( the State of Victoria road management organization). He then
worked with the Dubai Road and Transport Authority for over two years (2005 till 2007) as a
Road Safety Specialist. At the end of 2007, he joined the Urban Planning and Development
Authority (UPDA) as a Road Safety Specialist then as Technical Coordinator for the transportation and
infrastructure planning section.
Currently he holds the position of Director of Transportation and Infrastructure Planning Department with
the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning in the State of Qatar.
Eng. Mohamed's areas of experience include transport planning, road design, road construction, traffic
engineering, road safety and project management.
Dr. Adnan ABU-DAYYA, QUWIC
Dr. Adnan Abu-Dayya, CEO, QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC):
Dr. Adnan has more than 20 years of international experience in the areas of
wireless/telecomm R&D, innovations, business development, and services delivery. Before
moving to Qatar in 2007, he worked for 10 years at AT&T Wireless in Seattle, USA where he
served in a number of senior management positions covering product innovations & emerging
technologies, systems engineering, and product realization. Before that, Adnan worked as a
Senior Manager at Nortel Networks in Canada in the advanced technology group and as a Senior Consultant
at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. From April 2007 to Dec. 2008, he was the
Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at Qatar University. He led the initiative to create and
then was appointed as the Founding Executive Director (CEO) of the QU Wireless Innovations Center
(QUWIC) in Jan. 2009 at the Qatar Science & Technology Park, Doha, Qatar. QUWIC is focused on utilizing
emerging wireless/mobile technologies to develop smart solutions and applications tackling the needs of
different market segments in the region including Intelligent Transportation, Environment, Utilities, Mobile
Health, etc.
Adnan received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queens University, Canada in 1992. He has many
issued patents and more than fifty publications in the field of wireless communications technologies and
services.
FOT project.
Karim BELHOULA, Continental Automotive
Karim Belhoula is graduated with a PHD Engineer in the domain of electrical engineering with
focus on telecommunication and acoustics. He worked on the integration of speech
technology in navigation and multimedia systems at Philips Car Systems. Within Siemens
VDO, he took the responsibility for different internal, national and EU-Projects in the domains
of telematic services, traveller information systems and car multimedia. Since 2003 he is
group leader of Advanced Development and Innovation at Continental Automotive with predevelopment focus on car connectivity and Web based ITS applications. He was involved in
different Co-operative projects, like SAFESPOT and AKTIV and still working on the SIM-TD
Friedbert BERENS
Dr. Friedbert Berens received his diploma and his PhD. degree in electrical engineering from
the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1992 and 1999, respectively. From 1992 to
1999 he was member of the scientific staff of the Centre for Microelectronics at the University
of Kaiserslautern working in the area of object oriented data base systems for electronics
circuit design, the design of satellite communication circuits and research in the field of 3G
mobile radio systems. In 1999 he joint STMicroelectronics, Geneva Application Lab. Here he
worked on the development of advanced algorithms for the use in UTRA-FDD and TDD systems. He held a
position as a Senior Principal Engineer in the Computer Systems Groups UWB Business Unit. In this position
he was responsible for the enhanced research, standardization and regulation activities for short range
devices based on UWB in STMicroelectronics.
He recently created his own consulting company working in the domain of regulation, standardization and EU
research project acquisition and management with a focus on active coexistence techniques and cognitive
radio techniques for short range devices including UWB, RFID and ITS. He was member and leader of
several ETSI STFs in the field of short-range devices and especially cooperative ITS systems.
SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Enrico BRANCACCIO, Ericsson
Enrico is responsible for M2M Service Platform standardization activities at Ericsson. He has a
long experience in telecommunication system. Enrico started to work for Ericsson in 1997 and
has been involved in product offering and technical marketing, having had responsibility as
local (Italy) Competence Center Manager. He has former experience in standardization (since
1995, ETSI DECT-CTM). Within his current assignment he represents Ericsson at ETSI TC ITS.
Scott CADZOW
Scott Cadzow has over the past 15 years become a recognised standards development
expert, primarily for security standards, in a number of International Standards Development
Organisations including ETSI, ITU-T and ISO. In ETSI Scott is or has been the rapporteur for
the TETRA security specifications, the suite of guidance documents for effective security
standards development (covering Common Criteria, Risk analysis, and security requirements
engineering) In MTS and TISPAN, and has acted as an expert to a number of Specialist Task
Forces in TETRA, TISPAN, HF, MTS, eHEALTH and AT-D. He is chairman of the ETSI ITS
Security group and also its counterpart in ISO TC204.16, vice-chairman of ETSI Project TETRA WG6
(Security) and the TETRA Security and Fraud Prevention Group (SFPG), and also vice-chairman of Luigi
Coppolino is Research Leader for EPSILON's activity in the MASSIF European Funded project. He cooperates
with EPSILON on a regular basis and has a long run experience in Research Projects in the field of critical
networked system security and dependability.
He was one of the principal investigators of the INTERSECTION, INSPIRE, and STREAM projects.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Technology of the University of Naples
Parthenope', in Italy, where he teaches Computer Architectures. He also was the director of a Master
program on Critical Networked Systems. the ETSI Lawful Interception group. Scott has also contributed to
reports from ENISA on network resilience and on measures to counter internet bullying.
Soumaya CHERKAOUI, Université de Sherbrooke
Dr. Soumaya Cherkaoui is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering of Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. Since 2000, she has been the Director of
INTERLAB, a research laboratory which conducts research funded both by government and
industry. Over the past 8 years, she led two pan-Canadian projects on vehicle
communications. She is also a technical lead on V2V communications for CooperCom, a
French-Canadian project to enhance road safety and mobility through vehicle communication
and perception capabilities. She is part of the Canada-California Strategic Innovation
Partnership-CCSIP- Committee on " Transforming Vehicle and Roadside Communications
through Wireless Technologies". In 2010, she was elected to Board of directors of the Auto21 Network of
Centers of Excellence. Pr. Cherkaoui has authored numerous works on wireless communications. She
particularly works on V2V and V2I communications.
Paul COPPING, TRL
Paul Copping is Corporate Development Director at TRL, the UK's national transport research
laboratory.
For the past five years, Paul has been responsible for TRL's Middle East business, in Qatar
and UAE.
He has special interests in electric vehicles, network enabled ITS solutions and future
highway design.
Paul was formerly VP Corporate Development at Nortel Networks.
He has an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA from Cass Business School.
Thierry ERNST, Mines ParisTech
Dr Thierry Ernst holds a PhD in networking from University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble,
obtained in October 2001 and performed within the PLANETE project-team at INRIA in
association with Motorola Labs. He is internationally recognized in the field of IPv6
mobility particularly in the « Network Mobility » (NEMO) research topic he launched.
During his 4-year long non-tenure researcher position at Keio University, Japan, he
founded and chaired the Nautilus6 working group within the WIDE organization, and the
NEMO and MonAmi6 working groups within the IETF. His research work on IPv6 mobility
has then led him to focus on Cooperative ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems
or C-ITS). Back to France in 2006, he has then taken the leadership of a 5-6 person
strong research and development group specialized in IPv6 communications for Cooperative ITS within LaRA
(La Route Automatique - The automated road), a Joint-Research Unit between INRIA (IMARA project-team)
and Mines ParisTech (CAOR robotic lab). As such, he has setup and ensured the technical coordination of the
FP7 GeoNet project which aimed at specifying and developing the IPv6 multicast distribution of messages to
SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
vehicles located in a geographic area (IPv6 GeoNetworking). He is now coordinating the recently started FP7
ITSSv6 project (IPv6 stack for ITS stations) and is involved in Field Operational Tests of Cooperative ITS
(FP7 DRIVE-C2X and SCOREF in France). He is also heavily involved in Cooperative ITS standardization
activities (ITS station reference architecture set of standards) at ISO TC204 (CALM), CEN TC278 WG16 /
ISO TC204 WG18 (Cooperative ITS) and ETSI TC ITS and is member of the French national delegation in
these groups. He is currently serving as co-chair of ETSI TC ITS WG3.
Knut EVENSEN, Q-Free ASA
Mr. Evensen has been involved in European ITS R&D projects and ITS standardization efforts
since 1988, and is the manager for this field in Q-Free. Knut Evensen holds several positions
in ISO, IEEE, and CEN related to the development of Cooperative ITS standards. In ETSI he
is the chairman of WG2 - Architecture and Cross-layer management. He was the chief
architect in the European ITS R&D project CVIS (Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure
Systems), and is currently responsible for the standardisation efforts in iCar Support
(www.icarsupport.org) looking to harmonize the global standardisation efforts in Cooperative ITS.
Andreas FESTAG, NEC
Dr. Andreas Festag is Chief Researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany.
His research is concerned with wireless and mobile communication, currently focusing on
vehicular communication and ITS. Dr. Festag actively contributes to the CAR-2-CAR
Communication Consortium and to ITS standardization. He serves as chairman of ETSI
Technical Committee ITS WG3.
François FISCHER, ERTICO - ITS Europe
Francois Fischer holds an Engineer Diploma in EE and Information technologies.
After finishing his studies he worked for Siemens as developers and then as project leader for
the Communication Testing Equipment branch. He designed test software dedicated to the
certification and homologation of digital telecommunications systems.
He funded FSCOM and held the position of CEO. He participated in many project teams at to
develop test specifications and was actively involved in several standardization committee.
He leaded the design and development of dedicated test systems for the test and validation
of Telecommunications systems.
He joined ERTICO – ITS Europe as Project Manager, where he is involved in several FP7 projects related to
ITS: COMeSafety2, HeERO, and DRIVE-C2X, where he leads the sub-project 3 "FOT operations".
Hans-Joachim FISCHER, ESF GmbH
Dr. Fischer is the Managing Director of ESF GmbH.
Dr. Fischer holds official positions in WGs of CEN, ETSI and ISO, which work on
communications for cooperative systems in ITS. He is editor of a large number of ITS
standards from CEN, ETSI and ISO. His company provides engineering services and
independent consultancy for communications with a major focus on ITS. http://fischertech.eu/, HJFischer@fischer-tech.info
Muna HAMDI, Director of Research, ITS Arab
Muna Hamdi (PhD, MEng, BEng) is an Independent Intelligent Systems consultant with
particular focus on Real-Time Dynamic Applications; leading a career that is mainly
focused on investigating methods that can be applied to optimise, control and solve
real-world problems; in industry, commerce and public services. Working for projects
that aim for better quality of life, increasing productivity and profits, by automating
systems to work reliably at all times under variety of conditions.
Currently, Muna is working on solving transport problems by forming a Road-Map to the future vision of
Transport. Her focus is on transport systems integration and multimodal travel. With this goal in mind, Muna
founded iMobility: FutureVision Group and Vrtual Centre where she started building the means that would
allow this vision to come true see http://www.hud.ac.uk/imfv/.
In additional to her involvement with transport innovation in UK, Muna is the Director of Research at ITS
Arab responsible of the research development and knowledge transfer programme. Muna believes that The
Middle East and North Africa act as a ‘Green Field' with respect to transport systems, offering a unique
opportunity to implement the ITS future model of - ‘Seamless Travel' . Her focus is on developing ITS
research projects involving private and governmental sectors, in collaboration with national, international
research and funding bodies, to:
1. Build awareness of ITS and ITS research and its importance to the region.
SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
2. Establish ITS regional requirement that are aligned with both regional governmental policies and other
transport associated authorities and organizations.
3. Identify synergies between international and the regional research projects
4. Knowledge Transfer and training to encourage interested parties to participate in the development of ITS
research projects that will benefit the MENA region in general.
More about Muna can be found in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/munahamdi
Jan HOLLE, University of Siegen
Jan Holle studied Applied Computer Science Minor Electrical Engineering at the University of
Siegen. During his studies he concentrated on the security aspects of software and
communication systems. In 2009 he received his diploma at the University of Siegen with a
thesis about Performance Analysis of CAN Bus Gateways and Design of a Security Concept for
CAN Bus. Afterwards he started to work as a Scientific Assistant at the Chair for Data
Communications Systems in order to continue his postgraduate studies to receive a PhD. He
is part of the
OVERSEE project team with a focus on the communication aspects in the virtualized
environment provided by OVERSEE.
Eng. Omar KANAKRIEH, Head of The Metrology Division /GCC Standardization
Organization (GSO)
Eng .Omar received a bachelor degree in Mechanical engineering in 1984. He worked in
Jordan for almost 13 years as standards Engineer then moved to the private sector and
worked with consultancy firm as QMS consultant. He is an IRCA Registered Quality
Management System Lead Auditor and a Certificated Technical Auditor – Laboratories
Accreditation.
Currently, he deals with Standardization and Metrology issues in GCC Standardization Organization / Saudi
Arabia and involves in standards drafting works of road vehicles and other area.
Lan LIN, Hitachi Information and Communication Technologies Laboratory (ICTL,
Sophia Antipolis, France)
Before joining Hitachi Information and Communication Technologies Laboratory (ICTL, Sophia
Antipolis, France), the various experiences of Lan LIN were always related to road
constructions and traffic management. After having completed her bachelor's study on
transportation and road
construction at Tongji University in Shanghai (China) on 1998, she worked four years as a
road construction and road civil engineering designer in the south-west of China. Her work
was mainly on the highway alignment design and the geographical on-site survey. She arrived in France in
2002, to study Intelligent Transportation Systems at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (National
Institute of civil engineering) in Paris and finally obtained her Master's Degree shortly before joining into
Hitachi on December 2004, where she will focus her research on the application of the mobile
communications activities on ITS, in particular on Cooperative systems. She is actively involved in C2CCC
APP WG and in ETSI ITS WG1, as vice-chair of both WGs. Ms. Lin is rapporteur of several ETSI deliverables
in WG1, mainly focused on specifications on applications and facilities layer. Moreover, she is also involved
in several EU R&D and FOT projects such as iTETRIS, PreDRIVE, COVEL, DRIVE and SCOREF
Brigitte LONC, Renault
Brigitte Lonc joined Renault since 1988 and is currently innovation project manager and security system
architect in the Connectivity & Driver assistance department. She is actively contributing to standardization
in ETSI ITS WG5, acting as WG5 Co-Chairman and in different working groups on security and privacy issues
of safety cooperative systems (C2C-Communication Consortium, eSecurity WG).
Her technical expertise is on IT & communication systems, including wireless & mobile communications,
embedded SW systems, Web / internet services, security solutions and technologies (NFC/ RFID tokens,
smart-card, PKI certificate and key manager).
In Renault, she worked on several R&AE projects in the area of Intelligent Transport Systems: GST (open
platform for Telematics Services), TRASCOM (multi-modal transport services platform). Currently she is
contributing to PRESERVE project aiming at implementing and field-testing V2X security solutions and is
contributing to the security system architecture and deployment within the French cooperative systems FOT
Score@F.
She got a PhD on Computer Science on Protocols formal specification and validation at CNAM- Paris in 1987.
SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Hermann MEYER, ERTICO – ITS Europe
Dr. Hermann Meyer is Chief Executive Officer at ERTICO - ITS Europe.
Hermann Meyer is working for ERTICO since 2008, a Public-Private Partnership initiative to
support the development and deployment of ITS in Europe. He is Vice-Chair of the eSafety
Forum, Chairman of the eCall Implementation Platform, and a member of the Coordination
Committee of the Network of National ITS Associations.
Sebastian MUELLER, ETSI
Sebastian Mueller has been a Senior Technical Expert at the Centre for Testing and
Interoperability at ETSI (CTI) since 2007.
His tasks include providing testing expertise to ETSI Technical Bodies and leadership for test
specification development, as well as technical coordination of interoperability events.
Prior to his position at ETSI, Sebastian was a consultant with FSCOM; responsible for
developing test systems for telecom protocols and data. He has also given classes on the
TTCN-3 testing language.
He received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1998.
Hesham A. Rakha, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Dr. Hesham Rakha is a Professor in the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and the Director of the Center for Sustainable
Mobility at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, both in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Dr.
Rakha is an internationally recognized expert in ITS with over 23 years of expertise in this
area. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Transportation Letters and an Associate
Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Intelligent Transportation Systems & the Journal of
Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations. Dr. Rakha has
authored/co-authored 215 refereed publications of which 92 are journal publications. He has made over 200
conference presentations in the areas of ITS, traffic flow theory & modeling, traffic control, transportation
energy, environmental and safety modeling.
Dr. Rakha manages the development of the INTEGRATION microscopic traffic assignment and simulation
software in addition to a number of supporting software including the QUEENSOD synthetic OriginDestination demand generator & the SPD_CAL traffic stream and car-following model calibrator.
Prof. Rakha is a Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada and Egypt. In addition, he is a member of the
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
Dr. Rakha received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Department Civil Engineering at the Queen's University,
Canada.
Luis Jorge ROMERO, ETSI
Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI has over 20 years international experience in
the telecommunications sector. His career has successfully run between the technological
innovation and the development of new businesses, be it as a freelancer or as part of the
top management team in several companies of the Telefónica group. Among his
achievements we can highlight his involvement in the start up of Telefonica Romania in
1993 and in Médi Télécom (Morocco) in 1999, his participation in the merger of Telefonica
Moviles Mexico and Pegaso Comunicaciones in 2002 or the set up of Telefonica Moviles
Spain roaming business from scratch. Besides, Mr. Romero has led several initiatives within
different associations in the telecom sector, such as the Spanish Technology Platform for Wireless
Communications in Spain, the Ecosystem Working Group in the NGMN Alliance or the Services Review Group
in the GSM Association.
Hans-Joachim SCHADE, Transportation Sustainability Environment Consulting, (TSE
Consulting)
Hans-Joachim Schade has more than 10 years experience in the information and
communication-, automotive- and transport telematics industries. He was involved managing
urban & interurban traffic management system projects, with the objective of system
development, system operation, build up public / private partnerships; and to generate
mobility information services. He also was involved in Co-operative ITS-R&D projects, like
CVIS,
SAFESPOT
and
AKTIV
VM.
Mr. Schade is member of standardisation groups on national (DIN DKE GK 717), European (CEN/TC 278)
and world wide level (ISO/TC 204). He chairs the national group and acts as the head of the German
delegation in CEN/TC278 and in ISO/TC204. He also acts as convenor in CEN and ISO concerning the
standardisation of Co-operative ITS Systems.
SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Gérard SEGARRA, Renault
Gérard Ségarra graduated with an Engineer diploma from the Conservatoire National des Arts
et Métiers (France) and with a Master in mathematics from the university of Paris 6. He joined
Renault in 1984 to deploy telecommunication systems. He is currently ITS Innovation Pilot in
Renault Engineering division, representing Renault in C2C-CC Steering Committee and
Chairman of ETSI TC ITS WG1 dedicated to ITS applications requirements and services. He is
also the coordinator of the French Field Operational Test SCORE@F
Jun SHIBATA, ISO TC204 WG3
Since 2007, Dr. Jun Shibata has been the convenor of ISO TC204 WG3 which is responsible
for the standardization of ITS database technology. He is working with Japan Digital Road
Map Association which is responsible for the development and maintenance of the entire
digital road map database of Japan and management of ISO TC204 WG3. Dr. Shibata has
more than 30-year experience in the ITS R&D arena, especially including area traffic control
systems and car navigation systems.
Katrin SJôBERG, Halmstad University
Katrin Sjöberg is a PhD student at Halmstad University and Chalmers University of
Technology in Sweden. For the last 10 years she has been working with wireless
communication focusing especially on IEEE 802.11. Her research interests are everything
that are dealing with vehicular ad hoc networks from channel modelling up to the application
layer with focus on scalability issues of the medium access control (MAC) layer. She is
involved in standardization of vehicular communications in Europe in ETSI TC ITS, where she
has recently lead a specialist task force investigating the possibility of using time slotted
medium access control in vehicular ad hoc networks.
Hiroki TANIGUCHI, MIC
Mr. Hiroki Taniguchi is a Deputy Director of Land Mobile Communications Division, Radio
Department, Telecommunications Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commnications
(MIC), Japan. He is responsible for radio spectrum policy and R&D projects in the field of ITS
in MIC, cooperating with Japanese standardization organizations such as ARIB. MIC
cooperates with other relevant ministries and stakeholders, and promotes ITS in Japan.
Dr. Munir TAG, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) Qatar Foundation
Dr. Munir Tag is Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Program Manager at the
Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Qatar Foundation.
Dr. Tag holds a PhD from the University of Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Curie) - France and
possesses more than 15 years experience in ICT engineering, business development, R&D
and management. He held senior positions at Computer Associates (CA), Unisys, Alcatel,
Sema Group (Atos Origin), France Telecom Group and was a faculty at the University of Paris
6 (Pierre et Marie Curie).
His main domains of interest include: future communication systems, cloud computing,
renewable energy and e-learning.
Thomas WEILACHER, CEPT/ECC Working Group Frequency Management (WG FM)
Vice Chairman of CEPT/ECC Working Group Frequency Management (WG FM), Federal
Network Agency (BNetzA) Germany
Thomas Weilacher has been working in the field of telecommunications since he finalised the
study on electronic engineering. Since 1992 he has been working with the German regulatory
authority (now 'Federal Network Agency', BNetzA). From 1996 until now he has been
involved in international frequency management issues. His tasks include the participation in
European and other international meetings as a member of the German delegation.
He has also been acting as Vice Chairman of ECC Working Group FM since May 2008. This Working Group
was also responsible for the development of the ECC regulations for ITS.
Marc WERNER, Qualcomm
Dr. Marc Werner obtained his Diploma and Ph.D. (Dr.) degrees in electrical engineering from
RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 1999, and 2005, respectively. Since 2006, he is with
Qualcomm's R&D department in Nuremberg, Germany, where he has worked in several
public research projects towards new radio technologies for LTE and beyond, as well as in
different standardization and regulatory groups. He has been involved in the development of
the 3GPP eCall in-band modem standard, and in the past months has started to study the
performance of V2V communication links on MAC and PHY layers.
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Christoph WÖSTE, Federal Network Agency, Germany
ETSI TC ITS WG 4 Chairman, Federal Network Agency, Germany
Christoph Wöste is working for the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) in
Germany. He was involved in the area of international Spectrum Engineering from 1993 to
2010 and participated in several ITU-R and CEPT groups. He chaired the CEPT Working Group
SE from 2004 – 2010. Today he is Head of Section 'Technical Regulation Mobile Radio
Services'. Since October 2010 he is chairing Working Group 4 of ETSI TC ITS.
Takeshi YAMAMOTO, NEC Corporation
He is Expert, 4th Systems Department, Control Systems Division, NEC Corporation.
He works for NEC Corporation since 1988 and engaged in development of Digital Microwave
Communication systems and Wireless LAN systems.
Since 2001 He has been involved in ITS business promotion, R&D and standardization
activities.
He is Chair of Vehicle Communication Systems International Working Group, ITS Info-communications
Forum, Japan and Chair of ITS Task Force, Global Standards Collaboration (GSC).