Achim Vrielink, Head of Telecom Platform Development, DB InfraGO

FRMCS Introduction

Background in rail telecom: 2000 to 2005 Project Manager GSM-R terminals, DB Netz AG 2005 to 2008 Project Manager GSM-R shunting, DB Netz AG 2008 to 2012 Head of telecom applications department, DB Netz AG 2013 to 2014 Head of telecom services department, DB Netz AG 2015 to today Head of telecom platforms department, DB Netz AG – Portfolio management, – Railway operational requirements – Rail telecom applications – Radio Network planning – Fixed Network planning – Services and Revenue – Project initiation for introduction of new platforms

Allan Fraser, Professional Head of Telecoms, Network Rail

Competency Challenge

Fraser has gained over 40 years of railway and railway telecoms experience. This includes 7 years in Telecoms asset management followed in 2019 by 5 years of immense pride in the prestigious role of Professional Head of Telecoms sitting within the Chief Engineers team having accountability for the overarching telecoms policy, assurance of the strategic business plans, maintaining our licence conditions through ownership of the standards and competence frameworks for the whole of Telecoms

Andrew White, CEO, Wray Castle

UIC Rail Academy: Telecoms Section

Andrew has over 35 years’ experience in the global telecommunications sector, including with operators, vendors, consultants and internet pioneers. Andrew was previously the Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer at Zain KSA, a listed US$2 billion revenues mobile operator (MNO). Andrew has considerable experience in the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) sector, he co-founded and was managing partner of leading MVNO consultants, Piran Partners LLP. Andrew is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He holds an MBA from the London Business School and Masters in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey.

Begoña Domingo, Project Officer - ERTMS Unit - ERA

ERA Technical Opinion on FRMCS v2 specifications

Begoña Domingo is part of the ERTMS Unit in the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) since 2011, focusing on the radio matters, in the Change Control Management process and supporting various Working Parties. She holds a master’s degree in Telecommunication engineering by the UPM (Madrid). She started her career in the telecommunication industry, then specialised in GSM-R prior to moving to the Spanish Infrastructure Manager to work together with the signalling department in the start of service of ETCS Level 1 and Level 2 lines.

Camille Dierick, Head of GSM-R and FRMCS, Infrabel

From GSM-R to FRMCS

Camille Dierick began her career at Infrabel in 2017 and specialized in railway communication technologies. She began as a radio network planner and was involved in the design of the Belgian GSM-R network, mainly for the deployment and homologation of ETCS level 2 projects. She later took the lead on the GSM-R network maintenance and infrastructure team. In 2022, she became the manager of the Radio & GSM-R department, where she actively contributes to the global GSM-R strategy and particularly to the migration to FRMCS.

Christian Micas, Senior Policy Officer, Future Connectivity Systems European Commission, DG CONNECT

Commission’s support to 5G deployment along EU Transport Corridors

Christian Micas has been working since 2018 in the ‘Future Connectivity Systems’ Unit of the European Commission, DG CONNECT, where he has been in charge of policy coordination in the area of 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) including 5G corridor deployment. An industrial economist by training, Christian previously worked for 15 years in the European Commission’s Directorate in charge of Telecom policy, where he was involved in the preparation of the Code for European electronic communications, adopted in December 2018, with specific responsibility in the areas of access regulation and numbering. Prior to this, he worked for 10 years in the Office of the Director General of DG CONNECT where he conducted economic advisory work (1993-2002). Before his time at the European Commission, Christian worked two years as a consultant at IDATE Digiworld, a think-tank specialised in ICT and online media markets.

Christian Nänni, FRMCS On-Board Project Manager, UIC

MIGRATION TECHNICAL ASPECTS - With a focus on on-board

Christian Nänni is working as Project Manager at Emch+Berger in Bern, he has an experience of over 20 years in mobile communications and railway telecoms. Started his career in 2001 as radio network planning engineer at Nokia Networks and then joined Ascom where he had different roles in product management and pre-sales in the domain of mobile network testing. He joined SBB Telecom department in 2009 and held positions as mobile network engineer, asset manager GSM-R, product manager for cab radios and shunting terminals (including evolution to 4G) and contributing to the FRMCS Functional Working Group. Later he became responsible for the telecom on-board architecture within SmartRail 4.0. Until mid 2020 Christian chaired the UIC working group “Telecom On-Board Architecture”. From 2020 until 2024 Christian was Head of Product Management at NetModule in Bern a leading supplier of mobile routers for railway, busses, and industry.

Dan Mandoc, Head of FRMCS, UIC

FP2 - MORANE–2

Dan works for UIC, being responsible with the coordination of the UIC FRMCS overall activities. Dan worked in the past also for Network Rail, as Professional Head- Telecoms. Dan previously worked for UIC between 2006 and 2014, coordinating or being part of the EIRENE versions publication, introduction of GPRS for ETCS, interference solution development, creation and put on track of the UIC ENIR and NMG working groups and the initiation of UIC FRMCS project. Between 2010 and 2013 Dan has been the ERIG Chairman.

Daniel Grünig, , Responsible Railway Communication, SBB

SBB CFF FFS FRMCS Implementation Plan

Started his career as Systems Engineer at Siemens Carrier Networks in 1994. During this time acted as 3rd. Level Maintenance Engineer on SBB’s GSM-R. Engaged at Nokia Siemens Networks as Solution Consultant and Program Manager for 6 years until 2012. Since 2012 employed at SBB Infrastructure Telecom first as Strategic Asset Manager followed by an engagement as Product Owner FRMCS at SBB Infrastructure Telecom Development. Since 2022 system responsible Railway Communication (GSM-R and FRMCS) within SBB Infrastructure Telecom on behalf of Swiss Federal Office of Transport. Specifications for planning, construction and operation of the centralized and decentralized system components of the GSM-R and the successor systems in Switzerland.

Dominique Rulens, Deputy Chief of Rail and Operations, and Thomas Newey, Telecommunication Manager, California High-Speed Rail

CAHSR FRMCS Overview

Enno Wiebe, Director General, UNIFE

Enno Wiebe is the Technical Director of the Brussels-based Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER). After finishing his civil engineering studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden, Germany, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, he started his professional career at Deutsche Bahn and worked from 2007 until 2011 at UIC in Paris, France. At CER, he supervises the work in the technical domain of the association and manages the association’s role as representative body at ERA level.

Eric Giraud-Desjuzeur, FRMCS Program Director, SNCF Réseau

Railways FRMCS Plans

Eric GIRAUD-DESJUZEUR began his career in 1988 in Spie Group dealing with refurbishment of power plants in Asia in the Middle East and Africa. He moved to the railway business ten years later for Siemens to work as project manager for proposals and projects of automatic metro and tramway (Singapore Circle Line, Extension of Paris metro line 14, Algiers Tramway...). In 2007, he joined the SNCF group as project director of CDG Express and RER B north modernization. In November 2016, he moves at the head of the GSM-R network at SNCF Réseau, and in 2020 at the head of the FRMCS program.

Erik Van Bommel, Chairman of UIC FRMCS Functional Working Group, UIC / Prorail

UIC FRMCS FWG

Erik van Bommel has an experience for over 25 year in railways. He started as an electrical engineer in rolling stock maintenance and has developed himself to be an experienced GSM-R product manager now. He is responsible for the various GSM-R core subsystems including life cycle managements. Also in UIC Erik has been played a part in various standardisation groups. Currently he is performing the role of chair for the next generation project FRMCS Functional Working Group.

François Davenne, Director General, UIC

Director General, UIC

François DAVENNE, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications d’Evry in 1988 and of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in 1999, has always promoted interdisciplinarity as a key factor for success. After experience in international satellite telecommunications, his first assignments were in the housing sector and required strong financial and legal skills. He was involved in policy and regulation of the sector, and managed key operational programmes, in particular for the city of Paris. After three years in the French Ministry of Transport working on railway safety and regulations, with the emphasis on European regulations, he was elected Secretary General of OTIF in 2012, where, since 1 January 2013, he has promoted interdisciplinarity and partnership building to expand the uniform regulations for international carriage by rail. Currently Deputy Director General of UIC, he will become Director General of the worldwide railway organisation end of June 2019.

Giorgio Travaini, Executive Director, Europe’s Rail

Towards a reliable, efficient, future proof and integrated European railway network

Giorgio is heading the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking as Executive Director since his appointment in May 2024, and leading the organisation since March 2023 as ad interim and acting Executive Director. He has been responsible for the 1,2Bn€ Europe’s Rail R&I integrated Programme since 2021 as Head of Programme. He has been supervising as head of R&I the 920M€ R&I Programme of Shift2Rail (S2R), since 2015. Before, he was a Senior Corporate advisor at UNIFE, advising on strategic topics and preparing S2R. Since 2007, as Senior Technical Manager, he supervised several R&I projects, teams and technical committees. He was also secretary of ERRAC. In 2006, he assisted Mr Paolo Costa, Chairman of Transport Committee of the European Parliament. In 2004 he joined the EU environment, working for the European Chamber of Commerce association and the Valle d’Aosta Regional representation office. Prior to that he had other international experiences with Procter & Gamble in Rome and with BNP Paribas Cardiff in Paris. He holds an Engineering Degree (Polytechnic of Turin) and a Master Degree in Public Affairs (London South Bank University).

Guillaume Gach, Chairman of Architecture Technical Working Group, UIC

UIC FRMCS SPECIFICATION STREAM

Guillaume Gach is an engineer graduated from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in computer sciences. Before joining UIC in 2020, he was a digital technology senior advisor at SYSTRA in the application of advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to transport with key expertise in connectivity. Within UIC, he is member of the Rail System department and holds various positions including FRMCS Design Authority and Project Manager of Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance. As FRMCS Design Authority, he is chairing the FRMCS Architecture & Technology working group in charge of the FRMCS System Requirements Specification. He is also coordinating the UIC 3GPP Task Force in charge of introducing FRMCS requirements into 3GPP standards (5G and Mission Critical Services).

Hendrik Holz, Sales Director, Funkwerk

FRMCS Radio Module MT18

Hendrik Holz studied automation technology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After holding various positions in the public telecommunications market, he joined Funkwerk in 2003. He has been responsible for product management since 2012. Here he has contributed to the standardisation of GSM-R and FRMCS in various committees. Since 2019, he has been in charge of sales for train radio equipment at Funkwerk Systems GmbH.

Jean-Michel Evanghelou, Director Telecom, Signalling and Digital Applications, Director Financial Control & Project Operations, UIC

Director Telecom, Signalling and Digital Applications, UIC

During his career, Jean-Michel Evanghelou held various positions of Director within Orange Group and joined afterwards Nortel Networks where he had different roles in the international business, serving as Vice-President for various telecom technologies and segments. He has been also serving as Director of the Railway Business Unit of Kapsch Group. Jean-Michel graduated as engineer from the Ecole Centrale of Paris.

Jesus Santiago Molina, Radio and Power Supply Manager, ADIF

ADIF IN MORANE 2

Telecommunications Engineer from the UPM in Madrid, MBA from ESADE, Expert in Railway Engineering (UNED), Expert in railway signalling and telecommunications (ADIF training centre). Experience in transmission networks in private sector companies. Positions held at ADIF: In the safety area: Traffic Safety technician, Safety installations Manager, Railway inspection Manager and support group for the railway safety agency. Currently Head of Radio and Power Supply in the Telecommunications Sub-directorate of ADIF, more than 10 years of experience in mobile network systems.

Jos Nooijen, ICT Domain Architect, Prorail

ProRail MORANE 2

Jos Nooijen is an ICT domain architect at ProRail ICT. He is involved in developing architectural concepts for ETCS over GSM-R/GPRS, FRMCS and 5GiRa (CEF2 Digital study on FRMCS and Gigabit train). He actively participates in the standardisation of FRMCS and serves as the chairman of EIM TEL (European Infrastructure Managers Telecommunications). Jos is the technical lead of the MORANE2 project on behalf of ProRail.

Karel van Gils, Senior Programme Manager, Europe’s Rail

EU-RAIL Contribution to FRMCS

In 1991 Karel van joined the railway sector and worked for Dutch Railways (NS) in operations, maintenance and commercial positions in Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands. Before moving to ProRail, Karel worked as a Director of Engineering for Amsterdam's public transport company (GVB). In 2019, after two years of serving as Director of Asset Management at ProRail, Karel was appointed Director of Innovation. Since September 2023 Karel works for EU-RAIL in Brussels.

Keir Fitch, Head of Unit Rail Safety and Interoperability, European Commission - DG Move

Head of Unit ’Rail Safety and Interoperability’ DG MOVE, European Commission

Mr Fitch is the former Deputy Head of Cabinet of Siim Kallas, Vice-President and Commissioner for Transport where Mr. Fitch is responsible for land transport, security and state aids, inter alia. He was also the coordinator of the White Paper of the Future of Transport. Mr Fitch studied mathematics and law at Cambridge, was a lawyer at Herbert Smith and then moved on to the UK civil service in 1993. He joined the European Commission's Legal Service in 1999. Before joining the cabinet of Mr. Kallas in 2004, he was a Member of Cabinet of Vice-President Kinnock, responsible for Administration.

Laurent PISON, Business Support Expert, Kontron Transportation

We Create FRMCS

After 20 years in 2G/3G PMR and Public telecom providers as an architect, and 15 Years in vertical (4G/5G) solutions providers as an expert e2e 4G/5G solutions, I joined Kontron Transportation as an Expert in order to prepare the future of 5G railways based on FRMCS technology and solutions. Engagement in FRMCS at Kontron: “We create FRMCS”

Lin Wei, Senior Engineer, China Academy of Railway Sciences

China Railway 5G-R: Progress and Next Work

Mr. LIN Wei, Senior Researcher, works at the China Academy of Railway Sciences Group Co., Ltd. He is engaged in research on railway mobile communication technology and has achieved numerous research results in the fields of radio propagation, monitoring and detection, train operation command application. As the technical leader, he has contributed to the construction of China Railway 5G-R system including standards, equipment development, velidation.

Markus Myslivec, Head of Public Transport Solutions, Frequentis

Control room driven implementation of FRMCS

Markus Myslivec has a long history and vast experience in railway communications, ranging from software development for GSM-R mobile terminals to technical leadership in fixed line operational communication projects. He represents Frequentis within ETSI TC RT and the UNITEL committee of UNIFE. Within his company, Mr. Myslivec owns the technical strategy for the operational communication solutions within the business unit Public Transport. He is heavily engaged in inter-domain transfer of knowledge and technology as Frequentis provides communication and information systems for public transport, public safety, maritime and air traffic control domains.

Massimiliano Rizzato, Chairman of UIC FRMCS Telecom On-Board Architecture WG, UIC / SBB

UIC FRMCS TOBA WG

MSc in Electrical and Telecom Engineering as background, with an MBA as specialization in management, started his career as software engineer in various industries, early focusing on mobile telecommunications. After two decades in several technical and management positions at MNOs and mobile vendors between Italy and Switzerland, entered the Railways world by taking the position of Head of Telecommunications Engineering and member of the Infrastructure Telecom Network Engineering Management Team at SBB, at the same time starting an early involvement in UIC as SBB delegate at UGFA Working Group. Later changed his focus in SBB to Standardization and at the same time succeeded to an SBB colleague as Chairman of the UIC Telecom On-Board Architecture Working Group. Currently member of the group responsible for Railway Communication system (GSM-R and FRMCS) within SBB Infrastructure Telecom on behalf of Swiss Federal Office of Transport, with focus on international railways telecom standardization processes. Member of the ETSI TC RT Group as SBB representative.

Mats Malmstrom, FRMCS Project Manager, Trafikverket

MORANE 2 - Test and Validation in Sweden

Michael Kloecker, Head of Railway Solution Management, Nokia

Successful FRMCS introduction with Nokia

Michael Kloecker is working as Solution Manager Railway in the Nokia Core Network Business Unit and is responsible for strategic positioning of the current GSM-R solutions as well as for the evolution of the railway communication systems (FRMCS). In his role he closely interacts with the customers around the globe to identify requirements, analyses the market needs and strongly interacts with the product managers, sales as well as standardization organization. He is representing Nokia in relevant international bodies as the European Union – Agency for Railways, UIC and the UNIFE/UNITEL committee, as well as conferences and fairs, and finally the Horizon 2020 5GRail project where he represented Nokia’s engagement and work packages. He has been developed his knowledge on communication technologies starting with R&D activities in the early 90’ within Siemens, continuing with various roles in product and solution management for mobile networks. Since 2006 he focused on the railway segments. Michael holds a Master Degree in Computer Science and is currently based in Munich/Germany.

Nicolas Segond, Head of Railways Market Europe & Latin America, Ericsson

FRMCS "TAKE OFF" - ERICSSON ON TRACKS

Nicolas Segond is Head of Railways market for Europe and Latin America area at Ericsson. He is leading Ericsson’s business engagement and development for 5G based projects towards Railways Operators across the region. He is driving Ericsson’s active participation in European Union funded programs for both FRMCS standardization (Future Railways Mobile Communication System) and in Railways early deployment activities for 5G corridors and gigabit train projects to enhance connectivity on Rail sector. Nicolas has 25 years of experience managing international business cycles in Telecom Industry, including strong expertise on the Rail market, being actively engaged in previous standard GSM-R adoption worldwide.

Pascal Bertrand, Product Line Director, Mission Critical and Railway, Viavi

Monitoring: a FRMCS Enabler

Pascal is a qualified, RF and Microwave Engineer, based in Nantes, France. In 2006, he began working for leading railway telco and network monitoring solution provider Expandium, first as a Project Manager, then founder of the highly successful QATS Signalling and QATS Railway solutions. Since the acquisition of Expandium in 2020 and Comtest Wireless in 2022 by VIAVI, Pascal has led the extended Product Line Management team, based in France, Italy and Egypt. Today, he and the team are responsible for developing the range of passive monitoring and active testing solutions for Mission Critical Operators in railway, public safety, maritime and airports. The technologies supported include: 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G private networks, 4G and 5G MCx solutions covering MCPTT, MCVideo, MCData, as well as GSM-R, ETCS, ERTMS and FRMCS, for railways. Pascal is also closely involved in several industry initiatives, such as the UIC’s MORANE 2 project, a topic on which he is presenting at the 2024 UIC FRMCS conference.

Patrick Ruhrig, FRMCS Architect, DB InfraGO

DB contribution to FP2- MORANE-2

Railway experience started at DB Netz AG/DB INRAGO AG in 2015 as a senior consultant for fixed terminal project till 2017, from 2017 till 2020 became responsible system engineer for provisioning tools for NSS and fixed terminals, and started in 2020 role as GSM-R/FRMCS system architect, project lead of international FRMCS projects and international FRMCS standardisation.

Peter Gröschke, Chairman of ETSI TC-RT, UIC / DB InfraGO

ETSI TC-RT in support of FRMCS 1st Edition

Peter joined Deutsche Bahn InfraGO AG in 2022 (architecture and strategy group) to support the international standardization sub-group. Before, he worked 14 years for an consulting house with focus on international telecommunication operators and large corporates. In this role, he came to work on IP-based communications for Deutsche Bahn in 2019. Peter works in telecommunication related roles since 1997, when he joined a German consulting an training company which provides services for network operators and larger companies. Peter was elected Chair of ETSI TC RT in July 2024.

Sara Akbarzadeh, Chairwoman of FRMCS FFFIS, UIC

UIC FRMCS SPECIFICATION STREAM

Sara Akbarzadeh is FRMCS System Architect and the chair of FRMCS FFFIS within UIC. She is also the rapporteur of several work items in other UIC groups, namely Architecture Technical Working Group (ATWG) and Functional Interface Specifications (FIS) group, as well as the rapporteur of two technical specifications in ETSI TC RT. Previously, she spent more than 10 years as consultant and practice leader in Davidson Consulting with several projects in companies of various orientations: network vendors, UE vendors, test equipment vendors and public mobile operators. Since 2017, she has participated in several 3GPP working groups, more frequently in RAN1 and CT1. Sara has MSc degree and PhD in Networks and Telecommunications from Télécom Paris/Eurecom.

Steve Parsons, Head of Business Development, Mobile Communications, Siemens Mobility

What could FRMCS unlock today?

Steve Parsons is Head of Business Development at Siemens, Mobile Comms. Steve has worked in the mobility sector for 30 years and enjoyed 21 years at Siemens. In November 2023 Steve transitioned from the road traffic environment into the rail sector. In his role, Steve is determined to focus on the Customers’ needs and support their transition towards FRMCS. As a leading global tech company, he values the collaboration across the broader Siemens portfolio including Rolling Stock, Electrification and Signalling and is proud of the sustainability values that Siemens can deliver through solutions that will enable the digital, connected railway. This will be Steve’s first attendance at the UIC FRMCS conference, and he’s delighted to present on ‘what does FRMCS enable’, exploring the use-cases and key benefits for all users. In his spare time, Steve plays guitar, is a 4th dan black belt at Karate and enjoys motorbiking.

Thomas Henss, Chair of the UIC Group for Frequency Aspects, DB InfraGO

UIC GROUP FOR FREQUENCY ASPECTS

Thomas Henss began his career in 1997 in the mobile telecommunications industry and specialized in railway communication technologies from 2003 at Deutsche Bahn, including RF network optimization and Spectrum Management. With 20 years of experience in Railway Mobile Radio Networks (RMR) he chairs the UIC Group for Frequency Aspects (UGFA) from 2020. UGFA work on relevant RMR topics with the focus on the air interface, e.g. FRMCS migration scenarios and co-existence.

Vassiliki Nikolopoulou, Railway Telecom Engineer, UIC

5GRAIL has finished - MORANE 2 is coming!

Vassiliki Nikolopoulou is currently working for the UIC (International Union of Railways), involved in the H2020 project 5GRail, as a technical coordinator of a subgroup focused on the tests definition for the validation of FRMCS prototypes. She is also participating in the FRMCS and 3GPP SA1 specifications. Before joining UIC, she has been working several years as operations’ access engineer, performing design, configuration and being customer interface of railway operators worldwide for Nortel at the beginning and Kapsch companies, later. She holds an engineering degree in Electronics and Radio Communications from Athens’ University, a master’s degree in design of advanced transmission systems (ENST – Telecom Paris) and a DEA in automatic Control and Signal Processing from Paris XI Orsay – University.

Vincent Caudron, Chairman of UIC FRMCS FIS, UIC

UIC FRMCS FIS - FUNCTIONAL INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS

1994 to 2000: Master - IT engineering and management at Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) 2000 to 2001: Software Engineer - Siemens Communications 2001 to 2003: Functional Test Leader - Siemens Communications 2003 to 2005: Technical Project Consultant GSM-R – Siemens Communications 2005 to 2010: GSM-R Technical Project Leader – SNCB Holding 2011 to 2014: GSM-R Core Network Operations and Maintenance Coordinator – INFRABEL 2015 to now: GSM-R Core Project Leader – INFRABEL Member of UIC FRMCS Functional Working Group 2021 to now: Chairman of UIC FRMCS FIS Working group

Wawrzyniec Perschke, Policy Officer, European Commission - DG Move

Commission’s support for FRMCS

Wawrzyniec Perschke is a Policy Officer in the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport of the European Commission. He is working on the policy of rail interoperability. He focuses on CCS TSI and ERTMS (including FRMCS), as well as Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (System Pillar, CCS related projects of Flagship Areas 2 and 6, and FRMCS related Deployment group aspects). He is also involved in the economic analysis of Polish reforms in the field of transport of the European Semester. His experience in the Commission includes work as an economist on broad intellectual property issues (e.g. support to SMEs, standard essential patents, IP management, access to and ownership of big data and relations with the EUIPO), on industrial policy for EU candidate countries and competitiveness analysis of EU Member States. Prior to work in the Commission he worked as an academic assistant (economics) at the College of Europe, Natolin campus.

Yang CUI, Director of Industrial Development, Huawei Enterprise Wireless Domain

Accelerate Worldwide FRMCS Deployment To Amplify Rail Intelligence

Yang CUI, Ph.D & CISSP, Director of Industrial Development, Enterprise Wireless Domain, Huawei. He holds a bachelor degree of Electronic & Communication Engineering (2000), from Harbin Institute of Technology in China, and a doctoral degree of Information & Communication Engineering (2007), from University of Tokyo, Japan. He joined Huawei in 2010 with Wireless Research Dept. focused on 3GPP, IETF and CCSA standardization work, and also served as a senior manager of Marketing and Solution Sales Dept. in Huawei, Japan during 2013-2019. Since 2023, He has been in charge of issues on spectrum, standards and ecosystem, in Huawei Enterprise Wireless domain.