Wanshi ChenWanshi Chen, Ph.D., Sr. Director, Technology, at Qualcomm Inc., is 3GPP TSG RAN1 Chair, elected in March 2021. Formerly 3GPP RAN1 Chair and Vice Chair, he has successfully managed a wide range of RAN1 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G New Raio (NR) sessions. He has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications at leading telecom companies, including operators, infrastructure vendors, and chipset vendors. Peter Gaal, Ph.D., VP, Technical Standards, at Qualcomm's Corporate Standards group, has been with Qualcomm since 1999. Initially, he was involved in cdma2000 standardization. Since 2007, he has been attending 3GPP meetings, first in the RAN4 group and since 2010 in the RAN1 group. Juan Montojo, Ph.D., VP, Engineering, at Qualcomm's Corporate Standards group, joined Qualcomm in January 1997 and has worked in the system design and standardization of various communication systems, including Globalstar, 3G, 4G, 5G, and WiFi, as part of the corporate R&D and Standards groups. Haris Zisimopoulos, M.Sc., Sr. Director, Technical Standards, at Qualcomm's Corporate Standards group, joined Qualcomm in September 2012. Since then, he has been participating in 3GPP System Architecture WG2, i.e., the 3GPP group related to 3GPP system architecture. He has been rapporteur of various 3GPP projects, namely Proximity Services/D2D, Next Generation eCall, Unlicensed Spectrum System optimizations, and Radio Capabilities Signaling optimization. Read More Read Less
