Gibong Jeong, Ph.D.
Texas Instruments, San Diego

Gibong Jeong is a Program Manager and Senior Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments in San Diego. He joined Dot Wireless in 1998, that later became part of Texas Instruments, where his efforts has been focused on CDMA technology development for digital cellular systems and he led mobile terminal system design for IS-95, cdma2000, 1XEV, WCDMA, and HSDPA.

Prior to joining Texas Instruments, he consulted for the Broadband Access Group at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ in 1995 and he was a Member of Technical Staff at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA from 1996 to 1997. From 1997 to 1998, as Principal Engineer at Cadence, Sunnyvale, he led research on OFDM technology and developed a DVB-T digital television receiver.

He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Palo Alto in 1996. He holds a MSEE degree from Stanford University and a BSEE degree from Seoul National University, Korea. He has over 25 issued/pending U.S. patents and published 15 journal/conference papers.

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Young C. Yoon, Ph.D.
Ericsson Wireless Communications, San Diego

Young C. Yoon received the B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science (Electrical Option) from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1989, the Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Yokohama National University, Japan, in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1998.

From 1996 to 1997, he was a Research Assistant with the Telecommunications and Signal Processing Laboratory at McGill. From 1998 to 2001, he was an Assistant Professor with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was a co-recipient of the Telecom System Technology Prize from the Telecommunication Advancement Foundation, Japan, in 1995 for contributions to interference cancellation techniques in CDMA systems. During the Fall of 2000, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory, SONY Computer Sciences Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan.

He is presently a Staff Engineer at Ericsson Wireless Communications, CDMA Radio Access Networks - System Engineering. His interests are in advanced receiver design, CDMA system design and performance analysis and standards development. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

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R. Thomas Derryberry, Ph.D.
Nokia Research Center, Dallas

Thomas Derryberry earned his B.S. (1985) and M.S. (1987) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and his Ph. D. (1995) in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Thomas was employed at Texas Instruments from 1988-1998, where he focused primarily on the applications of signal processing to defense and non-defense projects. From 1988-1995 he led the development, modeling, simulation, and analysis of many different signal-processing systems for imaging, acoustic, and radar sensors utilizing linear and nonlinear estimation theoretic techniques. From 1995-1998 he was responsible for technical contributions in the development and application of signal processing algorithms in wireless communications systems. Thomas joined Nokia Research Center in 1998 to conduct research on third-generation (3G) CDMA technologies. He has been active in the development of cdma2000 from 1xRTT to the present. Presently Thomas leads the Systems Research Group and is responsible for research, development, and performance studies of current and evolving 3G CDMA systems and beyond, including physical, MAC, and L3 layers. His research interests lie in the applications of communications, control, and signal processing theory to wireless systems development. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

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Hyeon Woo Lee, MBA, M.Sc.
Head of 3G/4G RAN standard Group
Global Standard and Strategy Team
Telecom R&D Center
Samsung Electronics Co, Korea

Hyeon Woo Lee was born in GyeongJu, Korea, in 1963. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1985, the M.B.A. degree from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, in 1989, and the M.S.E.E. degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 1994. Since 1994, he has been working toward the Ph.D. degree at KAIST.

Since 1984, he has been a Researcher with Samsung Electronics Corporation, Korea. He is now a Group Leader of the 3G standard lab and 4G standard lab of the Telecom R&D Center. From 2001 March to 2003 Feb., he had been a Vice Chairman of 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1, responsible for WCDMA physical layer standard. His research interests include IMT-2000 standard, transmit diversity in CDMA, CDMA mobile network architecture, and fourth-generation mobile system.

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Rob Dalgleish
UMTS Access Strategy
Nortel Networks, Richardson

Rob is responsible for 3G Access Strategy with Nortel Networks Wireless Network Engineering based in Richardson USA. His current focus is to guide the many Nortel teams engaged in 3rd Generation wireless access product development and Engineering world wide.

Rob has been with Nortel Wireless since 1995 in Engineering management and advisory roles, working with GSM & CDMA customers and Nortel core R&D and project teams in Asia and North America. Special interests include tools for automated analysis of live network performance to support optimization and to underpin network level simulation of new access concepts such as Smart Antennas WLAN and RRM for 3G Applications.

Prior to 1995, Rob worked with Telstra in Australia for 14 years designing and implementing diverse communications systems ranging from solar & wind power plants to Microwave and Cellular Networks. Robert holds a BE with Honours from the University of Tasmania.

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Erik Dahlman, Ph.D.
Expert, Radio Access Technologies
Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden

Erik Dahlman received the M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1987 and the Ph.D. in Telecommunication in 1992, both from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Since 1993 he has been at Ericsson Research, involved in research and development of radio-access technologies for cellular communication.

Erik Dahlman was extensively involved in the development and standardization work on wideband CDMA for 3rd generation mobile communication, both within ETSI and ARIB. Later on, he joined the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for the development of the global WCDMA standard. Recently he has been involved in the standardization of WCDMA release 5, including the support for High Speed Downlink Packet Access. He is also involved in research on radio-access for future-generation cellular systems.

In 1999, Erik Dahlman was awarded the IEEE Vehicular technology Society Jack Neubauer Award for best system paper.

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