Jong-Tae Park received the BSEE degree from Kyungpook National University, Korea and the MSEE degree from Seoul National University, Korea, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, in 1987. From 1987 to 1988, he was at AT&T Bell Labs working on network management and service provisioning. Since 1989, he has been working at the school of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Kyungpook National University, Korea, where he is now a professor. He is a chairman of the Committee of Network Operation and Management of Korea Information Communication Society. He is also a vice-chair of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure of IEEE Communication Society. He was the general chair of APNOMS’ 97 which was held in Seoul, Korea.

His research interests include Telecommunication Management Network (TMN), Distributed Database System, Resource Management and Traffic Control in ATM Network, Wireless/Mobile Network Management, Multimedia Internet Application Development.

Veli Sahin is the Sr. Managing Director of Technology and Network Management Lab at SAMSUNG Telecommunications America (STA), Inc., Dallas, USA. He has been working in the area of communications networks over 20 years. He spent several years in different areas of communications systems such as transmission, switching, packet switching, wireless communications, management systems, and strategic planning working on as a planner, strategist, and developer. His current interest includes end-to-end integrated planning of SDH/SONET, Wireless, and ATM products/networks, development of TMN based management systems, integrated management of multiple technologies/products, and planning and development of National/Global information Infrastructures for the 21st century.

He has over 80 publications and co-author of a book titled as "Network Management into the 21st Century," IEEE Press, 1994. He has been very active in organizing Conferences / Symposiums / Workshops. He was the co-founder and first chair of the newly formed IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure (TCII), General Chair for the 1998 Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS' 98), and Group Leader & IEEE ComSoc representative for the ICII' 98. Currently, he is the chair of CNOM.

Mario Campolargo (EC DGXIII, EU)

Mario Campolargo is a Principal Scientific Officer with the European Commission DG XIII, co-ordinating the work on Service Engineering and Communications Management within the ACTS Programme, the European R&D Programme in advanced telecommunications. Mario Campolargo has 20 years of experience in the telecommunication field; he spend 12 years of its carrier in the R&D Center of Portugal Telecom where he was responsible for Software development and later, in 1990, he joined the European Commission. Mario Campolargo has a Degree in Electrical Engineering by University of Coimbra – Portugal, has aMSc Degree in Computing Science by the Imperial College London, has a Post graduate Diploma in Management by the Ecole de Commerce de Solvay – Brussels and received a Diplome d’tudes Europeennes” by Universite Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve - Belgium.

 
Al Vincent (NMF, U.S.A.)

Mr. Al Vincent is the Technology Integration Director for the Network Management Forum (NMF). In this position he is responsible for working with the NMF members to formulate the technical direction for the implementation of solutions to telecommunications business problems. Mr. Vincent is also responsible for the requirements and project planning for the NMF’s new Central Information Facility (CIF). Mr. Vincent also has a private Telecommunications Software Architecture Practice. He has been an Architect and Developer in Software Engineering for over 20 years with the last 6 being exclusively in object-oriented software engineering, in the management of telecommunications Operational Support Systems, for various large telecommunications service providers. Mr. Vincent is also on the adjunct faculty of the University of Denver and teaches in the areas of Object-oriented Software Engineering and Telecommunications.
 

Young-Hyun Cho (Korea Telecom, Korea)

Dr. Cho is responsible for R&D planning & coordination department of Korea Telecom (KT) R&D group. He joined Korea Telecom in 1984 and after that, had worked for network management R&D department until 1995. During that time he had carried out many network operations & management systems development projects and led TMN technology applications research for KT network management. Prior to KT, Dr. Cho began his telecommunications career in 1979 at ETRI where he participated in switching system O&M technology development projects.

Dr. Cho received a Bachelor of Science degree in electronic engineering from Aviation College of Korea in 1973. He received a Master of Science degree and a Doctor of Philosophy in electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Korea, in 1984 and in 1996.

Masayoshi Ejiri (Fujitsu, Japan)

Associate general manager ,Telecommunication Network Systems Group at Fujitsu, Japan, is responsible for world-wide telecommunication management business /technology strategy for Fujitsu after joining Fujitsu 1995.Ejiri began his professional career in 1967 at NTT, the year he graduated from the University of Tokyo. He engaged in various business areas in NTT, including transmission systems development, visual communication systems development, digital transmission network management and director of telephone office. Last five years in NTT, he has been an executive manager responsible for strategic planning and system development on service/network operations systems in NTT. He gave keynote speeches at NOMS'94 and ISINM'95. He was also general co-chair of NOMS'96 held in Kyoto, Japan. He is a chairman of Telecommunication Management committee in IEICE, Japan, and vice chair of NMF Japan committee.