ICACSIS 2022

 

Prof. Ramjee Prasad

Founder Director, Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University, Denmark

Ramjee Prasad is the Founder Director of the Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF) at Aalborg University, Denmark that was established in 2004 and Professor, Wireless Information Multimedia Communication Chair.

Ramjee Prasad is the Founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India (GISFI: www.gisfi.org) established in 2009. GISFI has the purpose of increasing of the collaboration between European, Indian, Japanese, North-American and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas.

He was the Founder Chairman of the HERMES Partnership – a network of leading independent European research centres established in 1997, of which he is now the Honorary Chair.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), USA, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and a member of the Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG), and the Danish Engineering Society (IDA).

He is recipient of Ridderkorset af Dannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and education.

He has received several international awards such as: IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2003 for making contribution in the field of “Personal, Wireless and Mobile Systems and Networks”, Telenor’s Research Award in 2005 for impressive merits, both academic and organizational within the field of wireless and personal communication,  2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award for: “Organizational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network”, and so on.

He is the Founder Editor-in-Chief of the Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications. He is a member of the editorial board of other renowned international journals including those of River Publishers.

Ramjee Prasad is Founder Co-Chair of the Steering committees of many renowned annual international conferences, e.g., Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symposium (WPMC); Wireless VITAE and Global Wireless Summit (GWS).

He has been honored by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016.

He has published more than 30 books, 1000 plus journals and conferences publications, more than 15 patents, over 100 PhD Graduates and larger number of Masters (over 250). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves

Professor Foster is the Director at the Keio International Center for the Internet and Society. He is a former Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) and a founder of the ACCJ Internet Economy Task Force.

Professor Jim Foster received his Bachelors degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1971. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1980 from the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked as the US the Director of Corporate Affairs for Microsoft Corporation in Tokyo.

His subject of interests includes intersection of technology and policy with a particular focus on how regulatory frameworks impact on innovation and growth. Professor Foster is also active on global Internet governance issues, especially as they related to privacy, security and competition policy concerns.

  

Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Dr. Huang is a Distinguished Research Fellow in Academia Sinica and an IEEE Fellow (for his contributions on fault tolerance and fault prevention Techniques). Dr. Huang received BS in EE from National Taiwan University and his PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland.  He Joined AT&T Bell Labs as a researcher in 1989.  His SwiFT system was named one of the ten major technology breakthroughs in Bell Laboratories in 1992.  He became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff of Bell Labs in 1996, and started the Dependable Computing Research Department in AT&T in 1999.  In 2004 he became the Executive Director of Dependable Distributed Computing and Communication Research Department to lead research on Digital Content Management and IPTV programs. In 2007, Dr. Huang returned to Taiwan to serve as the Executive Vice President of Institute for Information Industry (III), a government funded R&D organization with more than 1800 employees.  Dr. Huang joined Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) of Academia Sinica in 2011 as the CEO of Security Research Center in Academia Sinica.  Between February 2011 and August 2015, he was appointed by Taiwan government as the Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of Science and Technology of Executive Yuan, helping Minister of Science and Technology on the Information and Communication  Technology (ICT) policy and R&D funding allocation (about 3 billion US dollars per year), and supervising a number of nationwide projects on Internet of Things (IoT), smart city, cloud computing and its applications, and open big data.