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“Internet of Things” Forum – Speakers’ biography
Welcome Addresses
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Christophe Forax was appointed as the European Union’s Counsellor for ICT and Audiovisual for ASEAN, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea in September 2009. He has been working for the European Union for 15 years, notably as the Spokesman for Media and Education, and as Member of the Private Office of the Telecom and Media Commissioner. Christophe is currently based at the Delegation of the European Union to Singapore and his portfolio includes regulatory dialogues, R&D cooperation and representation of the European Commission on ICT and audiovisual policies with ASEAN and ASEAN’s member countries, Hong-Kong, Taiwan and Korea. He is regularly invited to present the EU approach to issues such as convergence, next-generation broadband, spectrum management and ICT research. |
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Dr. Alexander Alamil Lim graduated with a PhD. degree in Solar Energy/PV Systems at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He has over 20 years experience as Instructor, Assistant professor and Associate professor at University of Philippines Los Banos. From 1996 to 1999 he worked as Programme Coordinator and obtained the diploma in Science Teaching from the UP Open University. During the years 1999 – 2004, Alexander Lim occupied the position of Deputy Executive Director in Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development. Then, in 2004 he joined the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta as Senior Officer at Science and Technology Division and was appointed in 2007 Head of Coordination Unit at the Bureau for External Relations and Coordination (ASEAN Secretariat). Since 2009 Alexander Lim has occupied the position of Assistant Director and Head of Science and Technology Division in ASEAN Secretariat. |
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Roger Torrenti graduated in 1976 from Ecole Centrale de Paris, one of the French “engineers high schools”. He began his career as a research engineer at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), where he developed a specialized knowledge in energy technologies. Two of his research results were patented in 1977 and 1978. He also had the opportunity to be involved in international working groups, from 1979 onwards, within the IEA (International Energy Agency) and EC projects. In 1979, he was given the management of an applied research institution linked to Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris and the French Ministry for Industry. Its core activities concerned the use of information technologies in energy systems. There, Roger developed his specialized knowledge of the energy and IT fields (one of his research results was patented in 1981) and his international experience (he was involved in international research projects and the organization of international conferences). In 1984, Roger Torrenti founded Sigma Orionis (formerly Sigma Consultants), and he is still its CEO and main shareholder. He is often invited by national or international institutions to act as an expert in his specialized fields of technological knowledge. He has, for example, been acting (since 1990) as an evaluator or reviewer in many European Commission Programs. His passions include mountain climbing, philosophy, photography, modern art, and basketball. |
European Developments in the area of Internet of Things
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Alvis Ancans joined the international relations unit of the European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate General in march 2007. His main duties include fostering ICT research cooperation between the EU and Asian countries, notably, India, Japan, Korea and ASEAN. Before joining the commission, Alvis worked as the political specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Riga, Latvia. He holds a master’s degree in international relations from the fletcher school of law and diplomacy, Tufts University. |
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Patrick Guillemin is responsible within the ETSI Secretariat for development, co-ordination and management of new standardization initiatives including the Internet of Things, RFID and related fields. Patrick has 22 years of experience in IT and Telecommunications Project Management and 16 years in Standardization. Patrick was Coordinator of the EU CERP-IoT Cluster of research projects on RFID and IoT and participates directly in 3 EU Projects related to RFID and the Internet Of Things: CASAGRAS, GRIFS and RACE networkRFID. He was previously ETSI Technical Officer in charge of ETSI’s RFID standardization committees, worked previously for 2 years as ETSI Plugtests Technical Manager (25 Plugtests events managed in 2 years) and was ETSI IT System Group Manager & Security Technical Manager. He organized the first ETSI RFID Plugtests in March 2005. Patrick supported the creation of ETSI TC GRID. In parallel, he was Software Engineering Teacher at Nice University (France) for 14 years. Between 1985 and 1993, he worked as CIO for the French Stock Exchange in Paris and for Digital Equipment Corporation in Sophia Antipolis as Project Manager and consultant. Patrick has an Engineer Dipl. from the French University ENSAM (Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers) and a Master Degree in Software Engineering. |
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Trevor Peirce has been involved in GRIFS, CASAGRAS, RACE networkRFID, RFID Mandate M/436, RFID Plugtests, International Cooperation with China (CESI) and is rapporteur of a ETSI TC TISPAN WG7 European Norm related to RFID Security and Privacy. Trevor Peirce has been at the very centre of RFID standards in his role as Standards Director of EPCglobal and has broad experience of RFID from airline baggage tracking, transport, supply chains (former member of METRO’s Innovation Team expert group), library systems, etc. |
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Amiruddin Jaafar Sidek is the COO of CMSB. Besides leading the business and operational initiatives, he is one of the champions and implementers of the company’s processes in ensuring its compliance to the ISO9001 accreditation, as well as towards its attainment of the CMM-I certification. As a technology strategist, he also drives the company’s technology projects as well as the Research and Development initiatives in new and innovative applications and products. |
Southeast Asian Developments in the area of Internet of Things
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Dr. Lim Chee Ming is the head of energy research group in Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He previously held position as dean of science. His role as head of energy research is to coordinate and manage the energy research activities in UBD. Dr. Lim also contributes to national energy efficiency and conservation work. Dr. Lim’s interest in information technology are focus on: closing of digital divide, IT for sustainable growth and techno-economics modelling of energy systems. |
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Neang Mao obtained a Master of Science degree in Computer Science at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. During 1999-2005 he worked as Lecturer of Computer Science at Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. From 2005 to 2010 Neang Mao occupied the position of Police Official in Department of International Police in Phnom Penh. In 2010 he was appointed Present Official in National Information Communications Technology Development Authority (NiDA) in Cambodia. |
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Opaseuth Siharath obtained the Bachelor from Thailand in the field of electricity and master degree in Information Technology (IT) field. Since 1996 he has been working at Lao Telecome in telephone and Internet department and he has specialised in network field. He is in charge of controlling and monitoring the Internet network and services such as ADSL service, 3G service, lease line service. He is also much involved in the core network of Internet project developed by Lao Telecome. Before having joined the Lao Telecome he has been a lecturer at National University of Laos for 3 years and an advisor of a group of students. |
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Dr. Joel Joseph S. Marciano earned his PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. He is currently an associate professor and the Director of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, College of Engineering, University of the Philippines. His areas of research interest are Wireless Communication, Smart antennas, beamforming, interference cancellation, diversity and MIMO RF/Microwave/Millimeter Wave Circuits, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). His current publications in year 2010 include Enhancing the Accuracy of DoA Estimates of Passive UHF RFID Tag Signals Using Adaptive Filtering, which was presented in the Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA) in, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the “Carrier Suppression Locked Loop Mechanism for UHF RFID Readers, which was presented during the in Proceedings of the IEEE RFID Conference from April 12-15, 2010 at Orlando, Florida, USA. He is also listed as a member in the ASEAN engineers registry. |
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Dr. Anh Tuan is a Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager at the Department of Networking Protocols, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. He obtained his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2005. Anh Tuan’s research interests cover Wireless Sensor Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, Home Networking, Smart Grid, and Vehicular-to-Vehicular Communications. Apart from carrying out fundamental research in these fields, he is also working closely with industry partners to develop and deploy practical networking systems. He has also been actively contributing to IEEE 802.22 Working Group that specifies standard for cognitive radio networks over the TV White Space and to IEEE 802.16n & p Task Groups that specify standards for smart grid and machine-to-machine communications. Before joining I2R, Anh Tuan worked as a Network Engineer in Ericsson Vietnam and as Head of Legal and Technology Transfer at the R&D Center of Viettel Group. |
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Dr. Passakon Prathombutr graduated the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Software architecture and Computer networking from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He has been working as a researcher at National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand since 1993. In NECTEC he was the director of Next Generation Internet Laboratory and the director of Intelligent Transport System program. Today, he serves as the director of SRI (Service Research & Innovation program) and the director of ICCRU (Information Communications and Computing Research Unit.) He is also the vice president of Intelligent Transport System Thailand and a co-founder of Thailand IPv6 association and a co-founder of Thai Intelligent Traffic Information Center Foundation. |
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Dr. Hoang Le Minh graduated from the Moscow State University in Mathematics in 1980, Ph.D and was invited to work during 1985-1991 years for various research institutes and universities in Russia, Poland, Italy, France and Japan. In 1991 Dr. Hoàng Lê Minh started teaching job at Department of Mathematics and Informatics at Hochiminh City University. In 1995 became the Chair of Computing Applications Division and in 2001, accepted the position of Director of Software Technology Center of Vietnam National University. In 2003, Dr. Hoàng Lê Minh began state management duties as Deputy Director of Department of Science and Technology, Head of IT Project Management Office, Deputy Director of Department of Posts and Telematics (now the Department of Information and Communications) in Hochiminh City. In April 2008, Dr. Hoàng Lê Minh has been appointed by the Minister of Information and Communications as the Director of Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI), a public science and technology institute belonging to the Ministry of Information and Communications, with missions to assist the Ministry in Technology Policy for building and developing Software and Digital Content Industry in Vietnam. |
