Nada Golmie: NADA GOLMIE (nada@nist.gov) received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. Since 1993, she has been a research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She is currently the chief of the wireless networks division in the Communications Technology Laboratory. Her research in media access control and protocols for wireless networks led to over 100 technical papers presented at professional conferences, journals, and contributed to international standard organizations and industry led consortia. She is the author of “Coexistence in Wireless Networks: Challenges and System-level Solutions in the Unlicensed Bands," published by Cambridge University Press (2006). She is the technical lead for the simulation modeling and evaluation of LTE in support of public safety communications and serves as a co-chair for the 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance.

Thyaga Nandagopal: Thyaga Nandagopal is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Directorate of Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE), where he manages wireless networking and mobile computing research within the Networking Technologies and Systems (NeTS) program. He also serves as the co-chair of the Wireless Spectrum Research and Development Senior Steering Group (WSRD SSG), which co-ordinates spectrum-related research and development activities across the Federal government.

Sean Cai: As Vice President of CTO Group, Sean Cai is responsible for innovation and new technology development, as well as global marketing strategy. He leads a team of end-to-end technical experts in the United States and Europe, working closely with global operators to provide the latest solutions in ICT transformation. Sean regularly participates in various industry forums. He has been a key contributor to the development of leading 4G solutions, such as TDD/FDD LTE, multiple-antenna technologies, Small Cell, virtualization of network functions and solutions, and next-generation technologies such as 5G.
Sean has over 20 years of professional experience in telecommunications industry, specializing in advanced wireless products research and ICT network solutions development. Prior to joining ZTE in 2002, he held various senior positions in infrastructure system development with AMCC, STMicroelectronics, and Nortel, and has been awarded multiple international patents in telecommunications.

Maziar Nekovee: Dr. Maziar Nekovee is a Group Leader and Chief Engineer at Samsung Electronics R&D Institute UK (SRUK) where he leads Samsung's European Research in 5G, including Samsung's overall involvement in the Horizon 2020 5G PPP projects mmMAGIC (where he is project coordinator), METIS-II and FANTASTIC-5G. He is member of Steering Board of the EU's 5G PPP Initiative. His current research focuses on system architecture and spectrum aspects of 5G and mm-wave communications and networking.
Prior to joining Samsung in 2013 he was from 2001 with BT (British Telecom) where he pioneered and led research in cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum sharing technologies, with applications to rural broadband and M2M/IoT, and provided technical consultancy to business units on wireless strategy and 4G spectrum auction. ). Maziar has a PhD in Physics from University of Nijmegen, and a first degree and MSc. (cum laude) in Electronics from Delft University of Technology, both in the Netherlands. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, 1 book and several patents, and has presented in numerous international conferences and meetings, as keynote, plenary and panel speaker.

Sanyogita Shamsunder: Sanyogita Shamsunder is the Director of Strategy at Verizon. In this role, she is responsible for long term product and service strategy built around new technologies. Prior to Verizon, she held positions at Lucent-Bell Labs, Sandbridge Technologies and Linquest Corporation. Sanyogita has led teams in all facets of the wireless business including device and network technology development, marketing, planning and strategy. She was also an assistant professor at Colorado State University. Sanyogita received an MBA with honors from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from The University of Virginia.