Chih-Lin I

Chih-Lin I received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been working at multiple world-class companies and research institutes leading the R&D, including AT&T Bell Labs; Director of AT&T HQ, Director of ITRI Taiwan, and VPGD of ASTRI Hong Kong. She received the IEEE Trans. COM Stephen Rice Best Paper Award, the IEEE ComMag Fred W. Ellersick Prize Best Paper Award, and has won the 2015 Industrial Innovation Award of IEEE Communication Society for Leadership and Innovation in Next-Generation Cellular Wireless Networks.
In 2011, she joined China Mobile as its Chief Scientist of wireless technologies, established the Green Communications Research Center, and launched the 5G Key Technologies R&D. She is spearheading major initiatives including 5G, C-RAN, high energy efficiency system architectures, technologies and devices, green energy, and wireless big data for network embedded intelligence. She has led the launch of Wireless AI Alliance (WAIA) and O-RAN (Open RAN) Alliance.
She was an Area Editor of IEEE/ACM Trans. NET, an elected Board Member of IEEE ComSoc, Chair of the ComSoc Meetings and Conferences Board, and Founding Chair of the IEEE WCNC Steering Committee. She was a Professor at NCTU, an Adjunct Professor at NTU, and an Adjunct Professor at BUPT. She is the Chair of FuTURE 5G SIG, the Chair of WAIA Executive Committee, the Chair of O-RAN TSC, an Executive Board Member of GreenTouch, a Network Operator Council Founding Member of ETSI NFV, a Steering Board Member and Vice Chair of WWRF, a Steering Committee member and the Publication Chair of IEEE 5G Initiative, a member of IEEE ComSoc SDB, SPC, and CSCN-SC, and a Scientific Advisory Board Member of Singapore NRF. Her current research interests center around “From Green & Soft to Open & Smart”.

易芝玲博士，中国移动首席科学家，目前负责中国移动在无线通信前沿技术领域的研究工作。易博士建立了中国移动研究院绿色通信技术研究中心，创造性提出绿色柔性、开放智能的网络设计理念，主要研究方向为5G关键技术、C-RAN、高效能系统架构设计、绿色节能基于无线大数据的移动网络智能化等。 她负责筹建了WAIA（Wireless AI Alliance）和O-RAN（Open RAN）联盟。
易博士毕业于美国斯坦福大学，获电机工程博士学位，其后加入美国AT&T贝尔实验室无线通信基础研究部，是CDMA技术的开拓者之一。在无线通信技术领域近30年的工作经历中，易博士先后在多个国际知名的公司、研究机构担任研发及科研管理职务，包括：AT&T总部，任无线通信基础设施的接入技术主任；台湾工业技术研究院，任无线通信技术部总监；香港应用科技研究院，任副总裁及通信技术群组总监。
易博士荣获IEEE 2015产业引领创新奖（IEEE 2015 Industrial Innovation Award of IEEE for Leadership and Innovation in Next-Generation Cellular Wireless Networks），表彰其在下一代无线网络的国际领导力与创新；荣获2018年度“Fred W. Ellersick Prize”最佳论文奖和莱斯论文奖。主职之外，易博士也热心于行业工作，先后担任IEEE/ACM Trans. NET区域主编、IEEE通讯协会理事、IEEE通讯协会科技会议总监、IEEE无线通信及网络督导委员会创会主席、未来通信论坛（FuTURE Forum）5G SG 主席、WAIA执行委员会主席、O-RAN技术指导委员会主席、GreenTouch执行委员会成员、ETSI NFV网络运营商理事会成员、WWRF指导委员会成员、IEEE 5G Initiative指导委员会成员兼出版工作组主席、IEEE战略规划委员会成员、IEEE标准发展委员会成员、CSCN-SC指导委员会成员、新加坡国立研究基金会科学顾问委员会成员。
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