Douglas N. Zuckerman received his B.S., M.S. and Eng.Sc.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University (USA) in 1969, 1971 and 1976, and is an IEEE Life Fellow.
His over 30 years of experience, mainly at Bell Labs and Telcordia Technologies, span the operations, management and engineering of emerging network technologies and services. He is currently on the IEEE Board of Directors as the Division III (Communications Technology) Director. He was the IEEE Communications Society President in 2008-9.
His technical career included long-haul millimeter waveguide studies (before fiber), satellite systems engineering, maintenance engineering for the world's first digital transmission networks, business services operations planning, and most recently IP-centric optical network interoperability. He was an early contributor to TMN standards and had chaired the Optical Internetworking Forum's OAM&P Working Group.
For over 25 years, Doug's leadership across ComSoc's technical committees, conferences, publications, chapters and Society governance has maintained focus on member interests worldwide, especially making relevant technical information widely and quickly available on line and in conferences, and encouraging more member interaction in the technical committees. He co-founded technical committees on Network Operations & Management and Enterprise Networking, as well as the IEEE Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS).
His sustained contributions were recognized through the Salah Aidarous Memorial Award, the Society's Donald McLellan Meritorious Service Award, its Conference Achievement Award and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

Dr. Akihiro NAKAO received B.S.(1991) in Physics, M.E.(1994) in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo.
He was at IBM Yamato Laboratory / at Tokyo Research Laboratory / at IBM Texas Austin from 1994 till 2005.
He received M.S.(2001) and Ph.D.(2005) in Computer Science from Princeton University.
He has been teaching as an Associate Professor in Applied Computer Science, at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo since 2005.

Dr. Byung-Deok Chung is a vice president and the head of Smart Green Technology Department in KT AIT Convergence R&D Lab.
He is currently in charge of researching and developing the services, operations and management for a variety of energy and city related projects such as Smart Grid, Micro-Energy Grid and Smart Green City.
Since he joined KT in 1987, He has been involved in leading projects on development of large-scale Operations Support System(OSS) and solving many network and service operations issues with realization of optimal processes and support systems.
He was in charge of developing the operations and management systems for PSTN, transmission networks, Broadband Convergence Networks (BCN), Wibro networks, customer networks and home networks.
Especially, he managed the development project of NeOSS(New Operations Support System) to improve telecommunication operations process for business agility.
With NeOSS, KT was selected for the TM Forum Excellence Award titled “Best Practices Award Service Provider” in 2007.
He is now leading Energy-related Projects based on network operations and management, so as to link ICT to energy related-industries.
His research interests include Business Process Management (BPM), network/services operations & management and Smart Energy Management Systems(x-EMS) for Smart Green Home, Building, Complex and City.

Yu-Huang Chu, Ph.D., is a project manager in the broadband network department of Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
He is responsible for SDN and IP application services networking and planning teams.
He has been involved in planning and constructing commercial multimedia on demand service networks and cloud computing data center.
He specializes in researching and implementing IP and Triple-Play services.
As key accomplishment, he has successfully deployed Cloud computing Data Center, Broadband IP/MPLS network, NGN network, IPTV network.
His current major work is planning smart and secure network. He's interest topics include SDN, Open flow, LISP, and Content Centric Network.