ORAN and Its Application to Public and NPN

Dr. Jin Yang is a Fellow at Verizon Communications Inc., responsible for wireless technology and strategy. She is leading next generation wireless network architecture and technologies, including 5G-NR, Evolved LTE, Internet of Things (IoT), Intelligent Autonomous Self-Organizing Network and virtulized network.

Rittwik Jana is a Director of Inventive Science at AT&T Labs Research. His research interests span architecting the disaggregated RAN intelligent controller in O-RAN, service composition of VNFs using TOSCA, model driven control loop and automation in ONAP, networked video streaming and cellular networks and systems. He is currently the chair of the requirements and software architecture committee of the O-RAN Software Community (OSC).

Howard Thomas is a Principal Scientist in the Chief Technology Office of Viavi Solutions. He is a telecommunications consultant with more than 30 years’ experience in the mobile radio business.

Arda Akman has 25 years of research and development experience in telecommunications, especially in wireless networks. In his current position as Director of Wireless Access in Netsia, he is leading the development of 5G products with focus on network slicing and RAN intelligence. He has also led the development of 4G macro base station covering radio resource management, SON and FCAPS.