2024 TSC Election Candidates

 @Byung-Woo Jun

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Byung-Woo Jun is a principal engineer at Ericsson Software Technology. With his 25+ years of experience in telecommunications as a software engineer and architect, he has researched, developed and influenced industry standards and technologies. He studied computer science and network for his master and additional post-graduate studies. Prior to engaging the ONAP project, he worked as a principal computing architect for Bellcore, Telcordia and Ericsson, and resolved large-scale architectural challenges for the companies and many external telecommunication businesses. His career has provided him with a wealth of experience in envisioning, designing and developing cutting-edge products. 

Byung has been working with ONAP since its inception. He is the vice chairman of TSC, the Chairman of ARCCOM, a member of SECCOM, and OOM, SO, and achieved the following missions:

• Working with ARCCOM, SECCOM and OOM, defined and drove ONAP architecture, security and directions

• Drove ONAP Streamlining process to make ONAP more flexible, individual and easy to be adapted by other communities, vendors and operators

• As the ARCCOM Chairman, managed ONAP projects and architecture directions and roadmaps

• As a current TSC member, representing Ericsson, reviewed, approved and set directions of ONAP and promoted collaborations with other communities and standardization organizations (ETSI, 3GPP, ORAN)

As an ONAP TSC member, I (Byung) would continue to service the community, by promoting and setting strategies for the ONAP (modularity, autonomy, AI/GenAI/ML, security, pick-and-choose, performance, standardization and extensibility), AI/ML, cross-platform and community collaborations (ORAN, Nephio, vendors and operators). I am a strong candidate for this position based on my expertise and achievements.

@Paweł Pawlak

Pawel Pawlak is a Senior Product Manager at TuxCare for Endless Lifecycle Support products for Linux distributions, programming languages and frameworks. Actively contributes to ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform) from the early beginning of this LFN project. For the last 5 years Pawel has led the ONAP Security Subcommittee focusing on building awareness among open source community on security and incorporating best practices. For the last 2 years Pawel has also been leading ONAP TSC.  Pawel previously worked at F5 and Incognito as Product Manager for software solutions. Prior to that Pawel gained experience In the telco industry for 18 years at Orange/TPSA where he was responsible for testing and deploying aggregation and core networks for triple play services, dealing with building skill centers for BRAS/BNG, providing internal professional services in IP and transport domains and most recently creating strategy for operator’s IT and network operations convergence. Pawel received his Master of Science in Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology. He also holds Executive Master of Business Administration at Kozminski University.

As an ONAP TSC member, I would like to continue my contributions to ONAP community.  

@Dan Timoney

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Dan Timoney is an Expert Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, where he has worked since 1985.  During his time at AT&T, Dan has held lead positions in many telecommunications projects supporting voice and data services.

Dan has been a leading contributor to ONAP since its inception, having served as Project Technical Lead of the CCSDK and SDNC projects since their initial release.   Dan has consistently been one of the lead code contributors to ONAP.  He has earned the code contribution award for 9 out of the 11 ONAP releases.   He has been a member of the ONAP TSC since 2023.

If re-elected as a member of the TSC, Dan will work to continue to align ONAP and O-RAN and to improve the stability and maintainability of the ONAP platform. 

@N.K. Shankaranarayanan

N. K. Shankaranarayanan (Shankar) is an Affiliate Research Scientist with Rutgers University WINLAB, with research interests covering wireless networks and technologies, wireless standards and open-source solutions. He is a lead for an NTIA-funded R&D project on Open RAN energy efficiency. Prior to this, he worked at AT&T (Bell) Labs and STL Access Solutions. His work has spanned diverse areas including network energy efficiency, network automation solutions, wireless field trials, service and network quality management, radio propagation, full-duplex wireless, fixed wireless systems, and optical fiber/cable systems. He led the development and production deployment of the first cloud-based 5G SON solution in AT&T. He serves on the ONAP TSC and LFN TAC Committees, and has served on the WiMAX Forum Board of Directors. Shankar has 95+ patents in his name and 50+ research publications. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, all in Electrical Engineering.

I have served on the ONAP TSC for 3 years and represent ONAP on the LFN Technical Advisory Committee. I have worked to promote synergy and alignment of ONAP with O-RAN and O-RAN SC and Nephio, and my work was recognized with an ONAP Citizenship award for the London release. I can bring the viewpoint of an academic researcher with broad industry experience in wireless networks. After a 29-year research career at AT&T Labs, I worked in an O-RAN startup environment, and now I am with Rutgers University WINLAB which is at the forefront of wireless network research with a world-class experimental wireless network testbed and industry/university collaborations. My current focus is on network energy efficiency and optimization, including topics such as cloud-native deployments and network automation. Rutgers WINLAB will be taking over the US East Coast O-RAN SC Lab. I can offer a unique viewpoint by combining my broad wireless background, operational ONAP deployment insights, global standards experience, and university research perspective. My objective in ONAP and open source has been to foster an open ecosystem for mobile networks and make open source relevant to the industry. If I have the honor of continuing to serve on the TSC, I will continue my work to maximize synergy and alignment between ONAP and O-RAN/OSC and Nephio.

 @Andreas Geißler

With more than 15 year experience as OSS Software/System Developer and Architect at Nokia/NSN, I joined Deutsche Telekom 7 years ago as Senior Architect working in the "Network Automation" Chapter of the "Group Technology" department.

Since nearly one year I am involved in setting up DT's internal ONAP labs, automating, testing the ONAP installation (HEAT, OOM) and implementing PoCs in area of OpenRAN, B2B….
Besides my activities in ONAP I’m acting as lead system architect in DT’s TNAP project, which uses ONAP components for different automation projects.

I am an initial member of the ONAP project within Deutsche Telekom and TSC since 2018.
With DT we work since a couple of years to use ONAP components within Network Automation projects and a plan to take this platform into production in the near future.
My DT colleagues, our partners and me are contributed to the ONAP releases in several projects, like Documentation, Integration, OOM, SO and CDS and upstream our Portal to the community (portal-ng).
Main focus for the coming releases will be the production readiness of the ONAP platform and the extension of its functionality.

I look forward to the opportunity to work in the TSC to serve the ONAP community to continue it’s journey.

Becoming a TSC member, I want to help ONAP to focus on enhancing its stability and production-readiness to become a de-facto standard in network and service automation.
A clear target is also to strengthen the Telecom operator's focus in ONAP's further development.

@Keguang He

Keguang He is a software architect at China Mobile with over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications field. My primary focus has been on large models, generative AI, autonomous networks, and intent-based network solutions. Since joining the ONAP community in 2019, I have actively participated in various use cases, including end-to-end network slicing, test topology design, intent-based networking, large models, and the MaaS platform. Throughout this time, I have contributed substantially, with over 30,000 lines of code to these use cases.

As the PTL of the ONAP UUI project, I am responsible for its daily maintenance and ensuring that it aligns with the requirements of the ONAP community. Additionally, I have taken on the role of owner for the Q&A Assistant based on MaaS requirements, selecting and applying appropriate large models and knowledge bases tailored to the needs of operators in different countries. This has allowed us to provide precise and efficient Q&A services.

Furthermore, I serve as a liaison officer, fostering collaboration between ONAP and other organizations such as NFV and 3GPP SA5. In my capacity as the Vice Chair of the ONAP TSC, I am dedicated to promoting collaborative efforts with other standards organizations.

If I am honored with the opportunity to serve as an ONAP TSC Member, I will continue to contribute to the harmonization and alignment between ONAP and other relevant open-source communities and standards organizations. I am particularly committed to advancing open-source work related to large models, generative AI, and the corresponding MaaS platform requirements. I will also continue to act as a liaison officer to facilitate collaboration between ONAP, NFV, and 3GPP SA5.

I am eager to work within the TSC to serve the ONAP community and greatly appreciate your support. Thank you for considering my nomination.

@zhuguanyu

Guanyu Zhu is a senior open source engineer in Huawei. She has been working in the UUI project for two years, and actively participated in various use cases, including intent-based networking, and yang model automation.

Guanyu has been contributing in several open source projects within LF. She is the TSC of Anuket and Akraino as well. She has rich experience in testing, certification, CI/CD and Container-based servers and now focus on cloud native field.

If I am honored with the opportunity to serve as an ONAP TSC Member, I will continue to contribute and serve the ONAP community.

@Dong Wang

Dr. Dong Wang is a Senior Research Engineer of 6G Research Center, China Telecom Research Institute, Beijing, China, and leads the network architecture and services team.

His research interests include 6G mobile networks, network architecture and operation, intent-driven networks and complex heterogeneous networks.

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing China Telecom.
I am member of the TSC since March, 2020 and would like to continue in that position in the coming election period.

Currently, I am a Senior Engineer of 6G Research Center, China Telecom Research Institute, and service as the director of network architecture and services team.
To meet the research and standardization works of 6G, I would like to cooperate with ONAP on the evolution of next-generation mobile networks.

Therefore, I look forward to the opportunity to continue serving in the TSC.

Best regards,
Dong Wang