Dr. William C.Y. Lee served as Honorary Dean of School of Advanced Communications, Peking University, China. He was Chairman of LinkAir Communications, Inc. from 2000-2005. He was Vice President and Chief Scientist of Pactel, then AirTouch, then Vodafone-AirTouch from 1985-2000.
Dr. Lee was one of pioneers in developing advanced wireless technology - AMPS - at Bell Labs (1964-1979). His UHF mobile radio propagation model is known as the Lee Model. While he worked at Pactel, he was elected as co-chair of ARTS Committee of CTIA in selecting the second-generation (2G) cellular system for USA (1987-1988). He advocated CDMA technology. Because of him, Pactel funded Qualcomm. He also technically assisted and provided the spectrum for Qualcomm to develop CDMA in 1989. Under his leadership, the first CDMA phone call was completed in Los Angeles in 1995.
Dr. Lee is the inventor of Microcell, His patented Microcell System was deployed in Los Angeles and San Diego in 1990. He has published more than 300 articles and eight technical books on mobile communications and holds 30 U.S. patents with 2 in pending.
He has been elected as an IEEE Fellow and has served as a member of numerous Councils, including a member of the FCC Technical Advisory Council from 1999-2001, He served as the editor of IEEE Transactions of Vehicular Technology (1980-1990) and the board member of IEEE VTS (1991-1998).
He has earned many prestigious industry awards including the IEEE Third Millennium Medal Award. Dr. Lee received his PH.D degree from The Ohio State University in 1963.

Fumiyuki Adachi received the B.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1973 and 1984, respectively. In April 1973, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (now NTT) and conducted various types of research related to digital cellular mobile communications. From October 1984 to September 1985, he was a United Kingdom SERC Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at Liverpool University. From July 1992 to December 1999, he was with NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (now NTT DoCoMo, Inc.), where he led a research group on wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) for 3G cellular systems (IMT-2000). Since January 2000, he has been with Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, where he is a Professor of Electrical and Communication Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering. His research interests are in broadband wireless access techniques including equalization, MIMO diversity/multiplexing, distributed antenna network. He is an IEEE Fellow and was a co-recipient of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Transactions Best Paper of the Year Award 1980 and again 1990 and also a recipient of Avant Garde award 2000. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE) and was a recipient of IEICE Achievement Award 2002 and a co-recipient of the IEICE Transactions Best Paper of the Year Award 1996 and again 1998. He was a recipient of Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004 and Ericsson Telecommunications Award 2008.

Dr. Onur Altintas is a senior researcher at the R&D Group of Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co. Ltd, in Tokyo. From 1999 to 2001 he was with Toyota Motor Corporation and from 2001 to 2004 he was with Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA, and was also a visiting researcher at Telcordia Technologies between 1999 and 2004. Before joining Toyota Motor Corporation in 1999, he was a research scientist at Ultra High Speed Network and Computer Technology Labs (UNCL), Tokyo. He received his B.S. (1987) and M.S. (1990) degrees from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey, and his Ph.D. (1995) degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan; all in electrical engineering. He served as the Co-Chair for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Workshops (V2VCOM 2005 and V2VCOM 2006) co-located with ACM MobiQuitous, and V2VCOM 2007 and V2VCOM 2008 co-located with IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. He also served as the Co-Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2006, AutoNet 2007 and AutoNet 2008) co-located with IEEE Globecom. He is the general co-chair of the First IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC 2009) to be held in October, in Tokyo.

Lajos Hanzo (http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk) FREng, FIEEE, FIET, DSc received his degree in electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. During his career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in telecommunications. He has co-authored 17 books on mobile radio communications totalling in excess of 10 000, published 650 IEEE research papers at Xplore, acted as TPC Chair of IEEE conferences, presented keynote lectures and been awarded a number of distinctions. Currently he is directing an academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the European IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. He is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer as well as a Governor of both the IEEE ComSoc and the VTS. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press. For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk

Bingli JIAO received PH.D degree from University of Saarbruecken, F.R. Germany in 1995 and became an associate professor and a full professor of Peking University in 1995 and 2000, respectively. In 1998, he was a memeber of Chinese 3G Standard Evaluation Group. Now he serves as a board member of China Wireless Communication Comittee and a member of the Technique Group of China IMT advanced (4G). Over the past years, he cooperated with lots of international companies, such as Fujitsu R&D, ETRI, LG and STK, and also with the National Projects 863 and the National NSF with a collaboration with Finland government. He is active in VTC as the track chairs in both 2004 and 2009.

Dr. Roberto Padovani is responsible for the oversight of Qualcomm's overall research and development efforts.

He joined Qualcomm Incorporated in 1986, after two years at M/A-COM Linkabit where he was involved in the design and development of satellite communications systems, secure video systems and error-correcting coding equipment.

Over the past 20 years at Qualcomm, Dr. Padovani has been involved in the research and development of digital communication systems with particular emphasis on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless technology systems. He was involved in the initial design, development and standardization of IS-95 CDMA systems. His research and inventions have led to the worldwide standardization and commercialization of CDMA technology for second- and third-generation cellular systems. More recently, he has led the design and development of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, an IP-based, high-speed wide-area wireless data technology, which has led to the deployment of multiple broadband wireless networks and services across the globe.

Dr. Padovani holds more than 70 patents on wireless systems. He has published numerous technical papers in the digital communications field and was the co-recipient of the 1991 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Paper Award for a fundamental paper on the capacity of CDMA cellular systems.

Theodore S. Rappaport is the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and is the founding director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at the university's Austin campus. He was on the electrical and computer engineering faculty of Virginia Tech where he founded one of the world's first wireless communications university research and teaching centers. A pioneer in the fields of radio wave propagation and wireless communication system design, his work has influenced many international wireless standard bodies. Rappaport has served on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technology Advisory Council and conducted research for NSF and DoD. He has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers, 100 US and international patents, and several books. In 2006, Rappaport was elected to serve on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), and was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) in 2008. In 1999, his pioneering work on site-specific RF propagation and system design received the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award. In 1989, he founded TSR Technologies, Inc., a cellular radio/PCS software radio manufacturer that he sold in 1993 to what is now CommScope, Inc (NYSE: CTV). In 1995, he founded Wireless Valley Communications Inc., a site-specific wireless network design and management firm that he sold in 2005 to Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT). Rappaport has testified before the US Congress, has served as an international consultant for the ITU, has consulted for over 30 major telecommunications firms, and works on many national committees pertaining to communications research and technology policy. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively.