IWSSC 2007 Panel Session, September 13, 2007

Dr. Sastri Kota (skota@harris.com) received his B.S Physics from Andhra University, B.S.E.E. from BITS, Pilani, M.S.E.E. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India. He received the Electrical Engineer's Degree from Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A and Ph.D. in Electrical and Information Engineering from University of Oulu, Finland. Since 2003 he has been a Senior Scientist in Harris Corporation involved with Corporate Technologies and Standards with special emphasis on Wireless and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, satellite communication networks and Standardization. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Telecommunications Laboratory of University of Oulu. His research interests include wireless and mobile Information networks, satellite IP networks, QoS and traffic management, broadband satellite access, and ATM networks. Over the years, he held technical and management positions and contributed to military and commercial communication systems at Loral Skynet, Lockheed Martin, SRI International, The MITRE Corp and Xerox Corp. He has been very active in telecommunications and networking standards development. Currently he is the US chair for ITU-R, Working Party 4B and International Rapporteur for Ka-Band Fixed Satellite Systems. He was the chair for Wireless ATM Working Group and has been an ATM Forum Ambassador. He was the recipient of the ATM Forum Spotlight award and Golden Quill award from Harris Corporation for his contributions to Broadband Satellite Communications and Assured Communications.

Dr. Kota is the principal author of the book Broadband Satellite Communications for Internet Access published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, and is the co-editor of book "Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad Hoc Networks" by Springer, and has contributed book chapters to Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, John Wiley &Sons, High Performance TCP/IP Networking, Prentice Hall, and Modeling and Simulation Environment for Terrestrial and Satellite Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers,. He has published and presented over 120 technical papers in book chapters, journals, and conference proceedings. He served as a guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issues on Cross- Layer Protocol Engineering for Wireless Mobile Networks, Satellite ATM architectures, Broadband Satellite Network Performance, and International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Satellite IP QoS. He currently serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (Wiley Interscience), and International Journal of Space Communications (IOS Press). He is an Industry Advisory Board member of Rochester Institute of Technology and CRUISE Project.

Dr. Kota has been a keynote speaker, invited speaker and panelist at various International Conferences. He is the Unclassified Technical program Chair for MILCOM 2007.He also served as Tutorial chair and Asst. Technical chair of MILCOM2004, 1997, 1990; symposium chair, co-chair of satellite Communications symposium of GLOBECOM 2000, 2002 and invited session chair of PIMRC 2004, 2005 and 2006. He was the co-chair of Wireless Communications and networking symposium of GLOBECOM2006 and Technical chair of ISWPC2007. He has been a member of technical program committees of several IEEE, AIAA, SPIE and ACM conferences and workshops. He is a senior member of IEEE, Associate Fellow of AIAA, and member of ACM.

Dr. José Albuquerque was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1944. He received the Diploma de Engenheiro and the M.Sc. degree, both in electrical engineering, from Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ) in 1966 and 1968, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.

At PUC/RJ, he was an Assistant Professor (1967 to 1970), an Associate Professor (1973 to 1982), and a Full Professor (1984 to 1992), teaching in the Electrical Engineering Department and doing research in communications within the Center for Studies in Telecommunications (CETUC).

From 1979 to 1982 he was Director of CETUC. From March 1982 to March 1984 he was on leave from PUC/RJ working in the Communications Engineering Department of INTELSAT, Washington, DC, within the INTELSAT Assignee Program. From April 1984 to January 1987 he was Vice President for Academic Affairs at PUC/RJ.

From March 1992 to May 1997 he was again with INTELSAT, where he was Manager, International Standards and Regulations. From July 1997 to October 2002, he was with Teledesic, Bellevue, WA, where he was Vice-president, Regulatory Affairs. From January 2003 to June 2006, he was with PanAmSat Corporation as Senior Director, Regulatory Engineering. Since July 2006, after the merger between Intelsat and PanAmSat, he has been Senior Director, Spectrum Engineering, Intelsat.

Dr. William W. Wu, an IEEE Life Fellow, is the Founder with the Advanced Technology Mechanization Company (ATMco). He has a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. from MIT, and a B.S. from Purdue University, all from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments. His research activities were supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and NASA/Glenn Research Center. He was a Director with Stanford Telecom. From 1978 - 1989 Dr. Wu was with INTELSAT. Before that he was with COMSAT Advance System Division. His interests in satellite and space started at M.I.T. Center for Space Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Sooyoung Kim received the B.S degree in electrical and electronics engineering from KAIST, Korea, in 1990. After having worked Satellite Communication Technology Division, ETRI, Korea from February 1990 to September 1991, she received the M.Sc and the Ph.D degree in electrical and electronics engineering from University of Surrey, U.K in 1992 and 1995 respectively. From November 1994 to June 1996 she was employed as a research fellow at the Centre for Satellite Engineering Research, University of Surrey, U.K. In 1996 she re-joined the Satellite Communication Technology Division, ETRI, Korea, and worked as a team leader until February 2004 to develop efficient transmission techniques for digital satellite communication systems.

She is now an assistant professor in Chonbuk National University. Her research interests include forward error correction coding schemes and multi-carrier transmission techniques for digital satellite communication systems. She has been working on ITU-R since 2000, and has contributed to make radio interface standard of satellite component in the IMT-2000 system. Now, she is actively working on Working Party 4B of ITU-R, and this year she was appointed as an international standardization expert in Korea. She has published more than 100 technical papers in the field of wireless/satellite communications. She has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member at various conferences including GLOBECOM 2006, IWSCC 2006, AIAA ICSCC 2007, ICC 2007, and IWSCC 2007.

Mr. Yoji Kishi received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. Since 1991, he has been with the Research and Development Laboratories, Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd. (now KDDI Corp.), Saitama, Japan, where he has been engaged in research and development on the operation planning of telecommunications networks.

His current research interests include planning and control of access networks. He received the Young Researcher Award from IEICE and the Meritorious Award on Radio from the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) in 1998 and 1999, respectively.

Dr. Markus Werner received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from Darmstadt Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree from Munich Technical University, Munich, Germany, in 2002, both in electrical engineering.

He is with TriaGnoSys GmbH, a satellite and aeronautical communications company, as managing director since 2002. From 1991 to 2005, he was with the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as research scientist, project manager and group leader.

His project experience includes several national and ESA studies and various projects in the framework of European ACTS and IST research programs. He has been national delegate to the COST Actions 227, 252, and 272. In 2004 and 2005, he was project coordinator of the European Network of Excellence in Satellite Communications (SatNEx).

His main R&D activities cover the broad range of modern satellite system design, including technical and business aspects, with some focus on multiservice traffic engineering, capacity dimensioning, and satellite-based systems and solutions for aeronautical and maritime services.

Markus is a Lecturer at the Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft (CCG), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, teaching satellite communications courses for telecommunications professionals.

He is co-author of the textbook Satellite Systems for Personal and Broadband Communications (Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2000), Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of VDE/ITG.