one6G governance
The one6G Association’s governance includes the following entities:
- The General Assembly, the Association's supreme authority, including one representative from each Member of the Association, electing the Board, the Chairperson, and the Vice-Chairpersons of the Board.
- The Board, which supervises and advises the one6G Secretariat in all respects, in particular on current and future activities of the Association. The Board consists of 16 Members and 16 Alternate Board Members, elected by the Members Assembly.
- The Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson of the Board, elected by the Members Assembly, chairing the Board and the Members’ Assembly, the official representatives of the one6G Association.
- The Working Groups Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson, appointed by the Board, chairing Working Groups' activities.
- The Secretariat
- The President, elected by the Board, presides the Operational Team and signs official documents on behalf of the Association.
- The Treasurer, elected by the Board, responsible for the handling of financial and accounting matters of the Association.
- The Operational Team, which includes the President, the Chairperson, and the Vice-Chairpersons of the Board, the Treasurer, and the Secretariat, in charge of the Association's daily tasks.
President
Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei
Professor, King’s College London
Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei has been engaged in research in the area of wireless communications for 27 years, both in academic and industrial organizations. He has worked for start-up companies on statistical signal processing for interference cancellation, network planning, and optimization of wireless networks. In 2000, he joined National Semiconductor Corp. (NSC), CA, USA (now part of Texas Instruments) and has worked within a team on the design of 3rd generation handsets based on UMTS standards, for which he has been awarded three US patents as inventor and co-inventor, respectively. He returned to the UK in March 2002 as a Lecturer at King’s College London and is now a full Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Engineering. He is the chair of one6G Association’s Working Group 1 and its representative in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a Fellow of IET, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Treasurer
Frederic Gilot
Strategic Financial Leader
Bio coming soon...
one6G Board
The one6G Board consists of 16 members. The Board is diverse, with members from different geographical regions, academic backgrounds, and industry sectors. The one6G Board is led by the Chair and three Vice-Chairs. The current Board was elected in April 2023 for a period of two years.
Chair
Nancy Alonistioti
Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Nancy Alonistioti is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She holds a BSc and a PhD in Informatics and Telecommunications. She has over 20 years of experience in numerous national and European projects, including project/technical management experience. She currently leads the SCAN group activities at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is also a member of the ETSI Experts group and the Greek standardization group ELOT (5G, smart city autonomic communications). Nancy is a highly cited author. She authored over 200 publications in mobile networks, IoT, NGI, SDN/NFV, autonomic communications, and reconfigurable mobile systems. She also coauthored 4 WO Patents.
Vice-Chairs
Narcís Cardona
Director of the Research Institute at the Polytechnic University of Valencia
Narcís Cardona is the Director of the Research Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). In 1990, he received his MSc in Communications Engineering from ETSI Telecommunications, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and in 1995, his PhD in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Narcís authored several research books and more than 200 publications in the most relevant international journals and conferences in the communications field, and he holds ten patents. His research interests include mobile channel characterization, broadcast cellular hybrid networks, and body area networks.
Riccardo Trivisonno
Head of Lab at Huawei Technologies
Riccardo Trivisonno (IEEE Senior Member) joined Huawei Technologies in 2011 and is currently serving as Head of Network Architecture – Research and Standardisation – for the Advanced Wireless Technologies Lab, at Munich Research Center. Over the past ten years, his team strongly contributed to the definition and standardisation of 5G network architecture and technologies for 3GPP releases 15, 16, 17 and 18 – in the areas of architecture modularization, network slicing, network analytics and QoS, filing 100+ Standard Essential Patent applications. The research team has been focusing on 6G enabling technologies since 2020. He has been Chairman of 6G-IA Pre-Standardization WG since 2020, Board Member of One6G Association since its foundation, in 2021, and one6G Vice Chairman since April 2023. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in telecommunications engineering from the University of Bologna in 2005 and 2000.
Patrick Waldemar
Vice President of Telenor Research at Telenor Group
Patrick Waldemar is the Vice President of Telenor Research. He joined Telenor in 2002. He has over 20 years of management and education experience in strategic management, strategic marketing, and information technology. He holds a PhD in Telecommunications from the NTNU and an MSc in Management from the BI Norwegian Business School. He has experience in research and development, software development, and strategic management gained in the telecommunications and oil industries. Over the last decade, Patrick has been leading Telenor's research on next-generation network technologies focusing on 5G and 6G. Previously he was the head of development at Canal Digital.
Board Members
- Nancy Alonistioti, Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Adrián Agustin, Senior Researcher at the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC)
- Jesus Alonso-Zarate, Director of the 6G Program at i2CAT Foundation
- Periklis Chatzimisios, Professor at the International Hellenic University
- Andrea Conti, Professor and Founding Director of the Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory at the University of Ferrara
- Riccardo Guerzoni, Director of the Core Network Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs
- Hakan Kavlak, Managing Partner at KCCTech
- Adrian Kliks, Professor at the Poznan University of Technology
- Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Assistant Professor at Aalborg University
- Jose Francisco Monserrat Del Rio, Professor at the Technical University of Valencia
- Massimo Neri, CTO at Martel Innovate
- Daniel Nunes Corujo, Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro
- Ivan Paez, Project Manager at ZettaScale Technology
- Riccardo Trivisonno, Head of Lab at Huawei Technologies
- Patrick Waldemar, Vice President of Telenor Research at Telenor Group
- Dirk Wilhelm, Senior Physician at the Technical University of Munich
Alternate Board Members
- Ike - Ahmet İlkgün Çark Managing Partner at KCCTech
- Narcís Cardona, Director of the Research Institute at the Polytechnic University of Valencia
- Luca Cominardi, Head of Technology at ZettaScale
- Jonas Fuchtmann, Research Group Chair at the Technical University of Munich
- Athanasios Iossifides, Associate Professor at the International Hellenic University
- Lina Magoula, Technical Manager and Research Associate at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Xavier Mestre, Senior Research Associate at the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC)
- Yuri Murillo, Strategic R&I Projects Lead at i2CAT Foundation
- Dagfinn Myhre, Vice President and Head of External Relations at Telenor Research
- Petar Popovski, Professor at Aalborg University
- José Quevedo, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications (Instituto de Telecomunicações)
- Malla Reddy Sama, Manager of the 3GPP Standardization Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs
- Giovanni Rimassa, CIO at Martel Innovate and Vice-President of Digital for Planet
- Egon Schulz, Director at Huawei's Wireless Innovation Center
- Roberto Verdone, Professor at the University of Bologna