ISG MEC Leaders and Support Team
MEC PoC Support Team
MEC Support Team Leader:
MEC Support Team Members:
•Bob Gazda (InterDigital)
•Alice Li (Huawei)
•Pierre Lynch (KeySight)
•Dario Sabella (Intel)
•Salvatore Scarpina (TIM)
•Laurent Velez (ETSI)
MEC LS officers for the Vertical Industries
•Mourad Khanfouci (Mitsubishi) – 5GAA on automotive - https://5gaa.org/
•Shuang Zhang (Huawei) – 5G-ACIA on industrial automation - https://5g-acia.org/
•Pekka Kuure (Nokia) – GUTMA/ACJA on drones - https://www.gsma.com/iot/aerial-connectivity-joint-activity/
•Tushar Gohad (Intel) – SVTA on videostreaming and CDN - www.svta.org
Short Bios of the MEC Leaders
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Mr. Dario Sabella
Senior Manager Standards and Research | Intel
Chairman | ETSI ISG MEC
DARIO SABELLA works with INTEL as Senior Manager Standards and Research, driving new technologies and edge cloud innovation for advanced systems, involved in ecosystem engagement and coordinating internal alignment on edge computing across standards and industry groups. In February 2021 has been elected as Chairman of ETSI MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing), while from 2019 he was serving as vice-chairman, previously Lead of Industry Groups, and from 2015 vice-chair of IEG WG. Since 2017 he is also delegate of 5GAA (5G Automotive Association). Before 2017 he worked in TIM (Telecom Italia group), as responsible in various research, experimental and operational activities on OFDMA technologies (WiMAX, LTE, 5G). Author of several publications (40+) and patents (30+) in the field of wireless communications, energy efficiency and edge computing, Dario is IEEE senior member and has also organized several international workshops and conferences.
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Dr. Walter Featherstone
Senior Engineer Technology Standardization | Apple
Vice-Chair | ETSI ISG MEC
Chair | ETSI ISG MEC WG DECODE
WALTER FEATHERSTONE is a Senior Standards Engineer at Apple, with over 20 years’ experience in the mobile telecommunications industry during which standardization and research have been a central theme. In 2021 he was elected as Vice-Chair of ETSI ISG MEC, whilst already holding the position of Deployment and Ecosystem Development Chair having been elected in 2019. He has been an active contributor to the ISG since 2016, leading the group’s OpenAPI work as rapporteur and appointed as Technical Manager with a focus on architecting for open source in 2017. Prior to joining Apple, he worked for Samsung R&D Institute UK and before that VIAVI Solutions. He also previously worked at Motorola Mobility during Google’s ownership, Nokia Networks and Motorola Solutions. He gained his PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Leeds, specializing in Super Resolution Direction Finding. Walter is a chartered member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and is the IET Swindon Local Network Chair.
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Dr. Alice Li
Senior Standards Expert at Huawei Technologies UK, with over 20 years’ experience in the mobile telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Huawei in 2020, she worked for Vodafone where she was also active in ETSI ISG MEC. Prior to Vodafone, she worked at Fujitsu Laboratories and Motorola. She has been active in several major SDOs and alliances -- ETSI ISG MEC, 3GPP SA1, 5G ACIA and 5GAA. Particularly in MEC ISG she has been the rapporteur and contributor to several major WIs, including Edge Application Enablement API and recently API Conformance Testing specifications. She is also rapporteur of 5G service requirements specification in 3GPP SA1, as well as an active contributor in other organisations such as 5GAA and 5G ACIA. A more comprehensive listing of her professional experience can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhaojun-alice-li-29381917/.
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Mr. Uwe Rauschenbach
Senior Standardization specialist | Nokia
Vice-Chair | ETSI ISG MEC
UWE RAUSCHENBACH is a senior standardization specialist at Nokia, contributing to the development of industry specifications that deal with the introduction of cloud technologies and related management mechanisms into telecommunication networks, namely ETSI Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and ETSI Zero-touch network and Service Management (ZSM). Another work area are 3GPP API specifications that enable the 5G core components to communicate, and that allow third-party applications to access network assets. Uwe has been one of the active ETSI MEC delegates from the start, hosting the MEC#1 meeting in Munich in December 2014. He is the rapporteur of the MEP API framework and has been an active contributor to the MEC architecture. Uwe was instrumental in the cross-SDO alignment with ETSI ISG NFV.
Previously, he has worked in other standards developing organizations such as the IETF, the DVB Project and the Open Mobile Alliance on various topics including RTCWeb, Network APIs and Mobile Television. Uwe has a background in university and industry research in the fields of media coding and networked multimedia services and holds a PhD from the University of Rostock for works in image coding and image communication.
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Mr. Debashish Purkayastha
Principal Engineer | InterDigital
Vice-Chair | ETSI ISG MEC WG DECODE
DEBASHISH PURKAYASTHA is a Principal Engineer in InterDigital's Wireless Networking Lab.Debashish is an accomplished engineering professional and technologist with over 20 years of industry experience in wireless telecommunications, networking, and embedded systems. He has broad expertise covering incubation, pre-standards R&D, standardization, technology, product development and prototyping. He actively participates and contributes in various standard organization, including leadership positions. Currently at InterDigital, Debashish is a leading researcher and innovator focused on 5G and 6G Network Architectures and Edge Computing. Debashish holds a MS in Computer Engineering degree from Villanova University, and a BE in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from NIT Silchar, India. His research interests include wireless communications and networking, mobility, edge & distributed computing, and real-time systems.
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Jane Shen
VP of Technology Strategy | Mavenir
Technical Expert | ETSI ISG MEC
JANE SHEN works in Mavenir responsible for Telco public cloud readiness and MEC technology strategy, driving new technology adoption and product innovation. She has been working in opensource communities for years holding various positions such as LF Edge board member alternative, LF edge Marketing group representative, Akraino API subcommittee co-chair and CNCF KubeEdge MEC SIG initiator. Since 2019 she started to engage in ETSI MEC activities. She held various leadership positions in engineering and technical planning in Mavenir and Futurewei. She is an experienced architect in 4G/5G NFV core network, MEC, OSS/BSS, and automation. She has been fully engaged in Telco Network Cloud Native movement and applying Data analytics and AI in the telco space.
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Chantal Bonardi
Technical Officer | ETSI
Technical Officer | ETSI ISG MEC
CHANTAL BONARDI is a Technical Officer within the ETSI Secretariat and has 29 years of experience in International standardization.She has provided support to more than a dozen ETSI TBs or ISGs and has gained considerable experience on the world stage. She is mainly renowned for her knowledge in the standardization aspects of public safety/emergency communications and multimedia delivery/broadcasting. Since 2017, Chantal has broadened her scope by providing support to ISG MEC. She has also been actively involved in the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) as Convenor of a Task Force and in promoting the results of the ETSI work at International Conferences.
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