Committees

Workshop organizers:

• Shahzada Rasool (Nokia Standards)
• Javed Khan (Altiostar)
• Ian Wong (VIAVI Solutions)

Shahzada Rasool (shahzada.rasool@nokia.com) is a Sr. Research Specialist with Nokia Standards – Radio Interface Group in Naperville, Illinois where he is part of Nokia O-RAN WG4 delegation and acts as O-RAN Fronthaul spec editor.  Shahzada is experienced with both Open RAN architecture and fronthaul design and has held various positions in wireless industry since 2011.  Prior to Nokia, Shahzada was with Sprint where he was leading the Sprint technology roadmap and was part of the team responsible for planning B41 mMIMO deployment, fronthaul split options and radio specifications. He has more than 20 issued patents and has published 15 journal and conference papers with over 250 citations.  He has a PhD is electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Javed Khan (jkhan@altiostar.com) is a Director of 5G RAN Product Management with Altiostar, where he leads their Private Networks and Small Cells portfolio. Prior to joining Altiostar in late 2020, Javed worked at Nokia since 2011 as a Member of Technical Staff in 4G Systems Engineering in Mobile Networks and later as a 5G RAN Product Manager in the North America CTO Office leading technology roadmaps with Tier 1 operators in North America. Prior to Nokia, Javed worked at Motorola as a software architect and systems engineering lead on various products in technologies spanning LTE and CDMA. He has a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Ian Wong (ian.wong@viavisolutions.com) is presently the Director of RF and Wireless Architecture in the CTO office at VIAVI Solutions, where he is leading RF and wireless technology strategy, standards, and architectures.  He is also the current co-chair of the Test and Integration Focus Group (TIFG) in the O-RAN Alliance.    From 2009 – Aug 2020, he was with NI (formerly National Instruments) where he was Section Manager of Wireless Systems R&D where he led the development of real-time end-to-end 5G wireless test and prototyping systems, and managed the company’s 3GPP wireless standards and IP strategy.  From 2007-2009, he was a systems research and standards engineer with Freescale Semiconductor where he represented Freescale in the 3GPP LTE standardization efforts.  He is a senior member of the IEEE, was the Director of Industry Communities for IEEE Communications Society 2016-2019, and was the Industry Program Chair for IEEE Globecom 2014 in Austin.   His current research interests include 5G wireless systems architecture, standards, and algorithms, with particular focus on advanced physical layer technologies like mmWave and Massive MIMO.

Dr. Wong is the co-author of the Springer book “Resource Allocation for Multiuser Multicarrier Wireless Systems,” has over 10 patents, over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and over 40 standards contributions. He was awarded the Texas Telecommunications Engineering Consortium Fellowship in 2003-2004, and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group student leadership award in 2007. He received the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and a BS degree in electronics and communications engineering (magna cum laude) from the University of the Philippines in 2000.

 

TPC members:

• Shahzada Rasool (Nokia)
• Javed Khan (Altiostar)
• Ian Wong (VIAVI Solutions)
• Amitava Ghosh (Nokia)
• Paul Stephens (Nokia)
• Alistair Urie (Nokia)
• Serdar Ozen (Nokia)
• Nagendra Bykampadi (Altiostar)
• Sridhar Bhaskaran (Altiostar)
• Ahsan Aziz (Facebook connectivity)
• Rittwik Jhana (VMWare)
• Aditya Chopra (AT&T)
• Sridhar Rajagopal (Mavenir)
• Chris Murphy (VIAVI Solutions)
• Reza Vaez Gaemi (VIAVI Solutions)