Dr. Wilbert Charlton Adams, Jr. (Chuck)
Program Director Standards & Open Source
IBM Corporation

Chuck received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, his Master’s in Management Science from Lehigh University, and his Doctorate in Business from George Washington University. He has thirty-five years experience with IBM, involving communications, networking, office automation, and software development, as well as business planning, strategic process transformation, finance, and marketing. For the past seven years, Chuck has distinguished himself in standards management. He has taught courses in electrical engineering and operations research, is a life member in Eta Kappa Nu, and a forty-three year member of the IEEE.

He currently has IBM corporate responsibility for worldwide standardization and intellectual property coordination, as well as global open source software policy management.  He coordinates operational and industry standards policy development for global standards organizations and consortia, representing IBM in the development of policy for a broad cross section of global standards, government and industry groups.

Dennis B. Brophy
Director, Strategic Business Development
Mentor Graphics Corporation

Dennis B. Brophy is director of strategic business development at Mentor Graphic corporation. He is also volunteer vice-chair and past chair of Accellera, an electronic design automation standardization group. Dennis has been in the electronic design automation industry for the past 29 years. He was first with Hewlett-Packard for five years, and then joined Mentor Graphics where he has held several positions the past 24 years.

He is a member of the IEEE Standards Association (SA) Board of Governors (BOG) and vice-chair of the IEEE SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG).  He is secretary of the IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group, secretary of the IEEE 1666 SystemC Working Group and participates in the IEEE P1801 Low Power Working Group. 

Dennis is also a member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and is a member of the United States National Committee for EDA standards.  He is a co-convenor of IEC TC93 WG2.

Dennis received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis in electrical engineering and computer engineering in 1980.

Dr. Radhakrishna Canchi is a Director of Engineering at Kyocera Telecommunications Research Corporation (KTRC), USA. He is responsible for the Research and Development of mobile broadband wireless systems at KTRC. He has more than 19 years of experience in the wireless communications field with an extensive background in global wireless industry standards. He has participated in IEEE P802.11, IEEE P802.20, 3GPP2, ETSI-BRAN, and ARIB-MMAC (Japan) standardization meetings.

Dr. Canchi has been a member of the IEEE P802.20 working group since January 2004 and has been a key contributor to the 802.20 system requirements, Channel Models, Traffic Models, and the proponent of 625k-MC mode TDD system in the Sponsor Ballot Draft of IEEE P802.20.

Before joining KTRC in 2004, Dr. Canchi held the position of Program Director for Pico and Broadband Wireless Access at the Centre for Wireless Communications and was Associate Lead Scientist at the Institute of Infocomm Research in Singapore during 2001-2004. He also held Research Engineer, Project Manager and Group leader positions at Nokia Research Center in Japan during 1998-2001, Kyocera Japan during 2001-2002, and at C-DOT (Centre for Development of Telematics) in India during 1989-1998, respectively. Dr. Canchi has served as a panel member and a member of the board at Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)’s Connected Home and Broadband Access Programs, respectively.

Dr. Radhakrishna Canchi received the Doctor of Engineering (Dr.Eng.) degree in intelligent systems from Kyushu University, Japan, in 1999.

Takashi Hasegawa’s current position is a director of ESL (Electronic System Level) & Verification Department of SoC (System on Chip) Design Engineering Division in Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited (a brand-new semiconductor company spun off from Fujitsu Limited on 21 March). He has over 20 years of design engineering and EDA experience in the semiconductor industry, especially system-level design and verification methodology.

Hasegawa started his career in 1985 at Fujitsu Limited and worked as a member of the MCU (Micro Controller Unit) Development Division for 10 years. Through this period, he worked on and led both hardware and software design methodology, as well as HW-SW co-design methodology. After that, he increased his responsibility in design methodology from MCU to all standard cell products in Fujitsu. From 1997 to 2001, he worked at Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. in San Jose, California as a manager of system-level design methodology and HW-SW co-design. He also worked on standardization through several activities in the United States. Since he returned to Japan, he has been in charge of the verification methodology of SoC, as well as the system-level design methodology of SoC.

Hasegawa received his Bachelor’s degree of Science in Physics from the Chiba University before joining Fujitsu. He has actively contributed to the following standardization efforts in the industry: founding and active member of SLD group of VSIA (1998-2000) working on its documents “Taxonomy of System Level Design” and “Standard Interface of System Level”; vice-chairman (2001-2002)/chairman (2003) of OSCI, working on “SystemC 1.0 through 2.0”; chair of UML for SoC Forum in Japan (2002-2004), leading development of the “UML profile for SoC”; and chair of the SystemC Working Group of JEITA in Japan (2003-2008), contributing to the development of IEEE-Std 1666-2005, “SystemC LRM.”

Kyoichi Hirota
Director General for Technical Regulations, Standards and Conformity Assessment
Policy Unit of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

Kyoichi Hirota graduated from Department of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, in 1981. He has been serving as Director General for Technical Regulations, Standards and Conformity Assessment at METI since September 2007.

Mr. Hirota joined the Bureau of Defense, Japan Defense Agency (JDA) in 1981. In 1984, Mr.Hirota became the Senior Clerk, Office of Director, Defense Buildup Programming Division, Bureau of Defense, JDA. In 1986, Mr. Hirota became the Staff Official (Law), Secretariat of Director General of JDA.

In 1988, Mr. Hirota was made the Assistant Director, Treasury Division, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance. He became the Staff Official (Budget/Account Settlement), Finance Division, Bureau of Finance, JDA in 1990.

In 1992, Mr. Hirota became the Staff Official, Facilities Division, Bureau of Finance, JDA. In 1993, he was named Staff Official, 3rd Personnel Division, Bureau of Personnel, JDA. Mr. Hirota was named the Deputy Director, General Affairs Division, General Affairs Department, Defense Facilities Administration Agency (DFAA) in 1995.

In 1997, Mr. Hirota became Director, Petroleum Refining and Reserve Division, Natural Resources and Fuel Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy. In 1999, he became Director, 1st Contract Division, Central Procurement Office, JDA.

In 2000, Mr. Hirota became Director, 2nd Personnel Division, Bureau of Personnel and Education, JDA. He became Director, Research and Development Planning Division, Bureau of Finance and Equipment in 2002. In 2003, he served as Director, Personnel Division, General Affairs Department, DFAA. In 2006, Mr. Hirota became Deputy Director General, Facilities Department, DFAA.

Kazuhito Ishida
Senior Staff Engineer
Qualcomm

Kazuhito Ishida is senior staff engineer of standards development of Qualcomm Japan Inc. Since he joined Qualcomm in December 2001, he has been working in the field of wireless communication systems standardization in ARIB, 3GPP2, and IEEE, where he covers many aspects of CDMA and OFDM/OFDMA broadband wireless access systems. Prior to Qualcomm, he spent seventeen years at Hitachi Ltd. doing optical transmission systems design, CDMA cellular systems design, and other wireless communication systems engineering. He received his BE degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Bilel Jamoussi is responsible for Nortel’s Strategic Standards organization within the office of the CTO.  In this capacity, Bilel provides strategic technology direction and leadership for Nortel’s involvement in more than 85 standards development organizations, forums and consortia. 

An experienced standards professional, Bilel is an elected member of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Board of Governors, IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG), and the Technical Liaison from IEEE-SA to ITU-T.  He serves on the steering committee of several international technical conferences including the MPLS and Ethernet World Congress in Paris. Bilel is also an invited speaker at several industry events.

Bilel contributes to the innovation and advancement of technology in the ICT field. He has been granted five US patents and has more than 20 patent applications. Bilel has actively contributed to the work of numerous IETF working groups, both as author and editor of Internet drafts, RFCs, and technical papers.

Bilel leads Nortel’s participation in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) consortium and initiative in emerging and developing countries.

Bilel has been with Nortel for 13 years, during which time he has held several leadership roles including software development for routing/switching platforms and data network engineering of major international customer networks. 

Bilel received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Satoshi Kojima is a technical director of the CyberWorkBench business division at NEC System Technologies, Ltd. Before that, he worked for Mentor Graphics Japan Corp. for five years, with his final position being Senior Technical Director for design for test, functional verification and layout verification products. He also worked in the semiconductor division at Hitachi Ltd. for 22 years, having engaged in developing design environments and methodologies for ASICs, SoCs, memories, and microprocessors. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from the University of Electronics and Communications at Tokyo.

Kojima has engaged in electronic design automation standardization as an active member of the EDA Technical Committee at JEITA (ex-EIAJ) since 1990 in standard design languages such as EDIF, VHDL, Verilog HDL, System Verilog, and System C. In parallel, he has engaged in international standardization as a WG2 co-convener at TC93 since 2000.

Li Li received his Bachelor’s degree of radio technologies from Xi’an Jiaotong University, and his Master of Business Administrations from Tsing Hua University. He has worked at Huawei for 12 years, with experience on wireless product development, R&D information system and document center management, business re-engineering of R&D processes, standardization and corporate strategy. For the past 8 years, Mr. Li has distinguished himself as the standard policy-maker and a technology strategist inside the company. He was one of the original founders of the Industry Standards Department and has cultivated core members of its standard teams. He directed Huawei’s overall standard strategy and standard policies on IMT-2000, WiMAX, service network, and IMT-Advanced. As a core member of corporate strategy circle, he has taken part in corporate-level technology strategies in recent years.

As the Vice Director of the Industry Standards Department, Mr. Li is responsible for policies on 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX Forum, ITU-R WP5D (past as WP8F), NGMN and 3GPP2. He is also responsible for standard strategies of major projects including 802.16m, IMT-Advanced and NGSON. Besides these areas, his management scope also covers IPTV, AVS, MPEG, ITU-T SG16 & SG12. He is a member of IEEE-SA CAG for 2007 and 2008.

Mr. Masao Matsumoto has served MPT (Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) and MIC (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) for nearly thirty years in the field of telecommunications administration, and he has been principally engaged in radio regulatory administration and promotion of ICT R&D throughout his career.

In 1976, after he was granted an MS/EE from Kyoto University, he joined the Radio Regulatory Bureau of MPT and gained experience in various posts in the Japanese government of Japan, including management of radio spectrum, development of space communications, and introduction of new mobile communication systems.

From 1980 to 1981 he studied spread spectrum technology at Purdue University in the US and was awarded an MS/EE. From 1985 to 1986 he served as an officer for frequency management of Japan’s Self-Defense Agency. From 1991 to 1992 he served as a senior negotiator for the telecommunications sectors of GATS of WTO.

At present, Mr. Matsumoto, as Director-General for Technology Policy Coordination, is responsible for promoting MIC’s ICT R&D program called "UNS strategic programs."