Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz has been professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for next generation networks (www.av.tu-berlin.de) since 2004. In addition, since 2003 he has been Director of the Business Unit Software-based Networks (NGNI) at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ngni) in Berlin. Recently, he also joined the supervisory board of Uniberg Group AG in Germany in February 2023.
Since 2022 he is coordinating the Germanl BMWK flagship project CampusOS (www.Campus-OS.io) which aims to build an ecosystem for emerging open campus networks. In addition he acts as senior principal investigator for 6G core architectures within the two German 6G Hubs, namely Open6GHub and 6G-RIC.
His current research is targeting the 5G evolution towards 6G, including Core-RAN integration (including OpenRAN integration), integration of Satellite/Non-terrestrial Networks and 5G/6G, as well as AI/ML based 5G/6G automated network control and management, in which he is designing a new organic 6G core network. For the most recent research activities see also www.6G-ready.org
Supreeth Herle
He holds a Master’s degree in Radio Communications from Aalto University, Finland. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as research engineer at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy, working mainly on implementing RAN slicing in Horizon 2020 EU projects. From 2017 to 2022, he has held positions at Safran Passenger Innovations, Germany and ng-voice,Germany focusing on application of 4G/5G RAN and Core for In-flight use cases and IMS. Since 2022, he has been working at SRS, contributing to the development of MAC scheduler.
Dr. Biljana Bojović
She is a senior researcher and a scientific promoter of OpenSim research unit at the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain. She received her PhD in Networking Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain in 2022. She is the developer and maintainer of the NR, NR-U, and LTE modules of the ns-3 network simulator, and the principal author of LAA and LTE-U modules. In 2020 she received the ACM SIGCOMM Networking System Award for her contributions to the development of open-source ns-3 network simulator. She held NR, NR-V2X, and LTE module tutorials at the ns-3 workshops in 2016 and 2022, at CONFTELE in 2021, Portugal, at the University of Novi Sad and at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2022. She has been a mentor of ns-3 GSoC projects on several occasions (2017, 2019, 2022, 2023). She worked on many research projects for industrial clients, such as Wi-Fi Alliance, SpiderCloud, Interdigital, the US Department of Defence, Meta (Facebook), and others. She is a co-author of one patent application (US20200314906A1) with Interdigital. Her current research interests include XR traffic enhancements for 5G-Advanced, MIMO simulation models, and unlicensed/shared spectrum.
Daniel-Constantin Mierla
He co-founded Kamailio in June 2005, aiming to build a solid SIP server project where openness to community and contributions has an important role, previously being core developer of SIP Express Router (SER) from its early beginning in 2002. He has a Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Polytechnics University of Bucharest. His experience was accumulated working as consultant for Orange Romania, branch of French Orange mobile operator, and researcher in network communications at Fraunhofer Fokus Institute, Berlin, Germany.
His activity is done at Asipto, a company targeting to offer and build reliable services and solutions that benefit at maximum from Kamailio’s flexibility and features, sharing knowledge and expertise via professional trainings and consultancy. Daniel is leading the development of the Kamailio project and he is member of its management board.
Tim Panton
He is the CTO at pi.pe GmBH – who license a cleanroom webRTC stack to connected camera makers (e.g. baby monitors etc). He has been doing webRTC since before it was a thing, writing code, fixing bugs, listening to people and contributing to open standards (IETF + W3c) and opensource protocols (SNMP, SRTP,ICE, SCTP etc).
His earlier projects range from management code for ESA’s Infrared space telescope, an internet vulnerability scanner and an app providing video-calling for pets.
Dr. Martin Kasparick
Head of Signal and Information Processing Group, Wireless Communications and Networks, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
Marcel Sowiak
Senior Software Engineer at BISDN (https://www.bisdn.de/)
Graduated from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Interested in Telecommunications since I was teenager. Have worked for 12 years at Ericsson. Moved to Berlin last year.
Yi Chen
Research assistant at NYCU and project coordinator of the free5GC, he is focusing on providing a reliable 5GC solution and leading the free5GC dev team.
Peter Hasse
Peter is senior researcher at FOKUS Fraunhofer Insitute, Berlin, Germany, actively involved in research work for 5G-Beyond/6G mobile networks, developing prototypes or building research testbeds and infrastructure. He is also the maintainer of the Open Mobile Network Toolkit, an open source application for Android to collect measurements on the mobile network.
Phillipp Maier
Philipp Maier is a software engineer at sysmocom s.f.m.c. GmbH with a decade of experience in software development. He has specialized in the field of 3GPP network components and contributed to the development of various osmocom.org projects.
Dr. Robert Schmidt
Robert is the RAN team lead at the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance.
In this function, next to being an individual contributor, he is the maintainer of the OpenAirInterface RAN repository, and overseas RAN CI testing. He works mostly at L2-L3 layers, with a focus on splits.
Before joining OpenAirInterface, Robert obtained a PhD in communications from Sorbonne University. During his PhD, he worked on topics related to RAN slicing and software-defined radio access networks. Also, he maintained the FlexRAN controller, and helped starting the FlexRIC nearRT-RIC.
Nick Jones
As a kid Nick was given a rotary phone to play with, and ended up creating an exchange out of scrounged parts. While the soldering iron burns have healed, the love of the tech hasn’t.
After leading the voice team for a carrier and working as a solution architect for a big kit vendor, Nick started Omnitouch, with a mission to build cellular networks in places other people can’t.
Today Nick & the Omnitouch team build and operate networks in the Pacific Islands, the last frontier in Alaska, jungles in South America and far flung places with interesting problems no one else can solve. Omnitouch is like the A-Team but without a van, or catch phrases, or cool hair cuts.
Elena-Ramona Modroiu
She is researcher at Technische Universitaet Berlin (DE), her research work covering the field of 5G mobile networks, end-to-end setups with a focus on core networks, and the evolution from 5G towards 6G generation of mobile communications. In 2003, she completed Master in Computers Science at Politehnica University Bucharest (RO) and continued with post-graduation studies at Universidad Politechnica Valencia (ES). Elena-Ramona has been actively involved in VoIP/SIP offering consultancy services at ASIPTO GmbH and co-founding the Kamailio open source project, the SIP server at the core of IMS solutions for 4G/5G open-source based deployments.