ATIS - Key Persons
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- Vice President - Innovation and Strategic Initiatives
As Vice President - Innovation and Strategic Initiatives, Carroll Gray-Preston drives the development of initiatives that put emerging Innovation Agenda priorities, as set by the ATIS Board of Directors, into action. She also works to advance established ATIS initiatives, most recently in the areas of NFV, IoT and Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technologies. Her role encompasses identifying emerging ICT trends and how ATIS members can advance their business priorities in light of them. Gray-Preston honed her strengths as an R&D leader, systems architect and strategic planner most recently serving as Vice President of Strategic Operations and Customer Success at GENBAND (Nortel Networks) and Leader of Technology and Planning, Office of the CTO, where her expertise spanned Agile methodologies, platform and product strategy, cultural change and critical launch strategies. She is a patent holder in the area of Multimedia Services and IP Interconnect. Before joining ATIS as a Vice President she led a standards task force that delivered a major report on the PSTN transition, which was used as input to evolve FCC services standards.
Carroll holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Computer Programming from the North Carolina State University.
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- Director and Solution Architect, Schneider Electric
In his role as a Solution Architect, he is helping clients with their Industrial IoT and Sustainability initiatives in the Commercial & Industrial and Data Center markets that allow to achieve greater resiliency, achieve sustainability objectives and create economic benefits. Prior, he supported the Consulting and Engineering community by advising on resource-optimized energy management solutions in the data center market. He offers nearly three decades of experience in the data center, broadcast, telecommunications, AV and IT industry. His papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals and he frequently speaks on national and international venues. Baumann, joined Schneider Electric in early 2012. He is an active member of iMasons and the Green G working group (Next G). Until 2018, he served as Treasurer and President on the board of AFCOM Southern California, was chairman for The Global Society for Asset Management (G-SAM). Baumann recently completed a program at MIT in Smart Manufacturing and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Theodor-Litt-Schule in Giessen, Germany.
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- Managing Director
- Technology
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- Senior Manager
- Advisory Specialist Leader - Defense, Security and Justice, Deloitte
Dr. Amy Zalman is a senior manager and futurist in Deloitte's Government and Public Services practice, where she architects strategies and programs that accelerate defense and civilian clients' capacity to thrive in the global information environment, both today and in the still-emerging future. Amy's previous roles include Chief Executive Officer and President of the World Future Society, and the Chair of Information Integration at the U.S. National War College. She was the founder of Prescient, a foresight consultancy that supported Fortune 500 firms, governments, and non-profit organizations to anticipate and prepare for the future, and the founder and director of the Foresight Sandbox, an executive education program that provides strategic foresight training to business and government leader.
She was a professor of strategic foresight in the Culture, Communications & Technology Program at Georgetown University from 2016-2021, and has also held teaching positions at Cornell, New York University and the New School University. She has published over fifty articles and op-eds and poetry and literary translation and criticism; and provided keynotes and facilitation on five continents. She earned her doctorate from the Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Cornell.
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- Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at UC Santa Cruz
- Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Colleen Josephson currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests include wireless sensing and communications systems, with a focus on technology that furthers sustainable practices. Other work includes designing novel sensing paradigms for agriculture, inventing techniques for ultra-low power communication in indoor sensor networks, and exploiting non-traditional energy sources, such as microbes, for sustainable sensing. Dr. Josephson received her PhD from Stanford University in 2020, advised by Sachin Katti and Keith Winstein. She received her MEng and SB degrees from MIT, where she worked closely with Muriel Médard. She formerly served as a research scientist at VMware.
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- Senior Director of Engineering ( Cradlepoint / an Ericsson Company )
Over 38 years of leadership in R&D (CTO, VP of Engineering) and hands-on engineering experience in the Telecom/Wireless industry started out being a long-time embedded software engineer, signaling protocol developer, wireless networking architect, and moving on to lead large Engineering Organizations to deliver commercial Telecom/Wireless products/services; heavily involved in standards bodies (IEEE, 3GPP, ITU-T/R, ETSI, IETF) working with the ‘G's from TDM to IP, fixed-mobile convergence, 2G, 3G, WiMAX, 4G/LTE, 5G & now 6G. Worked at large companies including Verizon Labs, Motorola, IBM, Ericsson, Polycom, Computer Associates, etc. as well as many startups including one of her own successful entrepreneurial ventures. Last 10 years focuses include M2M/IoT horizontal service platform technology, IoT vertical apps e.g., Smart Cities, VR/AR/MR, Drones, Smart Grids; E2E wireless deployment using autonomous networking (SON), SDN/NFV network transformation, Network Slicing, O-RAN, Intent-Based Networking design, Blockchain apps, Quantum Computing/IBM Q Experience, etc. Dr. Tam is also a professor at the University of Massachusetts as faculty in the Computer Science department teaching graduate and under-graduate CS & EE courses. She also chairs numerous IEEE working groups & technical societies.
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- Principal Systems Engineer / Manager at Qualcomm Technologies Inc
- Principal Systems Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc
Dr. Simone Merlin is a Principal Systems Engineer/Manager at Qualcomm Technologies Inc.. He is currently working on 5G Research and Development, in the areas of Extended Reality optimizations, 5G Private Networks automation, Integrated communications and sensing design. Prior to that, he worked on WiFi protocols design, IEEE standardization, prototyping and RF sensing.
Simone completed both an M.S. and Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering at the University of Padua, Italy. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
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- Internet Industry Economist and Consultant
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- Senior Researcher, Ericsson
Greg Phillips is a senior researcher and team lead specializing in privacy, AI, and user experience innovation at Ericsson. As a multi-disciplinary scholar and researcher, he is driven by a passion to understand how people make meaningful connections with one another through technological means, with work spanning the domains of applied cryptography, machine learning, international security, political economy, and UX/UI domains. He was formerly an Herb York Dissertation Scholar at University of California San Diego and graduated Summa cum Laude at University of California Los Angeles.
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- Vice Chair of the Policy Committee
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- Chairman of the Policy Committee
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- Director of 6G Marketing, Keysight
Sarah leads the marketing efforts for Keysight in 6G. She has over a decade of experience in test and measurement concentrating on wireless communications, both studying and promoting the latest wireless technologies. Throughout her career she has spent time in marketing, test engineering, and applications engineering. Prior to joining Keysight, Sarah worked at NI (National Instruments) as a product marketing manager for the software defined radio team where she gained a deep knowledge of SDR hardware, software, and wireless communications. Sarah's background is in microwave and millimeter wave technology. She has a BS in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University.
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- Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. William Lehr is a telecommunications and Internet industry economist and consultant with over twenty-five years of experience. He regularly advises senior industry executives and policymakers in the U.S. and abroad on the market, industry, and policy implications of events relevant to the Internet ecosystem. He is a research scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, currently engaged several multidisciplinary research projects within the Advanced Networking Architecture Group in CSAIL (ANA). Dr. Lehr's research focuses on the economics and regulatory policy of the Internet infrastructure industries. He teaches courses on the economics, business strategy, and public policy issues facing telecommunications, Internet, and eCommerce companies, and is a frequent speaker at international industry and academic conferences. He is the author of numerous publications on such topics as the measurement of economic impacts of Information technologies, the economics of technical standard setting, the pricing of Internet services, and the implications of commercializing novel Internet and wireless technologies for industry structure and regulatory policy.