OCUDU Ecosystem Developer Summit

Fatemeh Afghah is McQueen Quattlebaum Dean’s Professor in the Department of ECE at Clemson University. She also holds a joint appointment at Savannah River National Laboratory.
She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the N²Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications (2025), 100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G™ List for 2026, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2019), the NSF CAREER Award (2020), and Best Paper Awards at IEEE Asilomar... Read More →

Tiago Alves is CTO of Allbesmart, a Portuguese company building open-source 5G/6G platforms. He leads the development of open-source 5G network-in-a-box solutions used by universities, research labs, and industry for private 5G deployments, AI-RAN experimentation, and ISAC research... Read More →

An open source Software Engineer working for Ericsson Software Technology based out of Athlone, Ireland working in the Open-RAN space.

Dominic Catena is an Associate Scientist at ANDRO Computational Solutions, where he develops and integrates open 5G RAN and dynamic spectrum sharing technologies. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Pure and Applied Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology... Read More →

Chen Chen is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. His research focuses on O-RAN interoperability testing, open-source 5G testbeds, and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), with an emphasis on experimental implementation and validation... Read More →

Xuan Chen is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, working in the Wireless Cyber Center under Prof. Kai Zeng. Her research focuses on wireless security and privacy, integrated sensing and communication, and software-defined radio prototy... Read More →

Hai received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineer from Northeastern University in 2025. His research focus on Open RAN, NextG cellular networks, and AI/ML for wireless optimization. He is serving as an AI-RAN software engineer at zTouch Networks.

Fernando J. Cintron is a NIST researcher specializing in the simulation and hardware deployment of 5G NR and next-generation wireless systems. He actively leads the development of NIST’s Open RAN testbeds, driving empirical validation of disaggregated architectures, closed-loop... Read More →

I'm a PhD researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University’s IS-WIN Lab. My research focuses on AI-RAN, O-RAN, and experimental 5G/6G systems, with an emphasis on intelligent RAN control, edge computing, and AI task offloading. I work hands-on with open-source... Read More →

Angelo Feraudo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) at Northeastern University, Boston. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bologna in April 2025, and continued there as a postdoctoral researcher until November 2025... Read More →

Taimoor Ul Islam is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a senior member of the Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) at Iowa State University, where he also earned his Ph.D. Before joining WiCI, he spent six... Read More →

I am a software engineer, researcher and team leader at Ericsson Software Technology (EST) in Ireland.
I focus on open-source software development in the Telecom Network Management domain - specializing in development for Open-RAN.

Woo-Hyun Ko received the B.S. degree in electrical electronics engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in 2005 and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul Korea in 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at... Read More →

Rafael Lawisch is a software engineer and graduate researcher pursuing an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Unisinos. His research focuses on 5G Open RAN, network slicing, and automation, with practical work on OCUDU and O-RAN architectures. He has over a decade of experience in... Read More →

Le Thanh Long is a PhD student at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, working on 5G/6G radio access networks, and network optimization. Prior to his PhD, he worked as a Network Engineer at SUTD's Future Communications Connectivity Lab, where he developed and integrated... Read More →

Wilfred Luiz is a Staff Security Engineer at VIAVI Solutions focused on 5G and Open RAN security, standards-based validation, and security automation. His work includes O-RAN security testing, cloud-native telecom environments, vulnerability management, and building repeatable automated... Read More →

Dustin Maas is a senior researcher in the Flux Research Group at University of Utah, where he works on a variety of problems related to wireless networks, including physical-layer security, spectrum sharing, O-RAN, 5G/NextG, and systems design.

Caleb McKinney is a Senior Integration Engineer within Lockheed Martin's eTech Advanced Communications department, where he specializes in next-generation tactical communications systems. His work focuses on deploying 5G software stacks and Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) radios on... Read More →

Dr. Tim O'Shea is the CTO at DeepSig Inc where he is leading AI-RAN and Wireless Machine Learning efforts including software R&D. He is an IEEE Fellow and also leading efforts with AI-RAN for OCUDU, AI-RAN Alliance, FCC-TAC, 3GPP RAN1, and IEEE MLC ETI.

Matt Pennybacker is the technical lead for OCUDU at DeepSig, where he guides development of AI-RAN algorithms and interfaces in the PHY and MAC, and has helped launch the HWACCEL and AI-RAN working groups. Before that, he was the principal engineer for DeepSig's OmniSIG software... Read More →

Michele Polese is a Research Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and the Technical Director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems at Northeastern. He is also the chair for the AI-and-RAN working group of the AI-RAN Alliance and a co-founder at zTouch Networks... Read More →

Vipin Rathi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi. He was Vice-Chair and Individual Board of Directors at OpenInfra Foundation. He is the Chairperson of Linux Foundation Hyperledger Telecom SIG. He is Vice President of the Emerging Open Tech Foundation. He is the organizer... Read More →

Abdullah Al Safi is a Ph.D. student in ECE at Virginia Tech, with research interest in next-generation wireless communication systems. He earned his MS in ECE from Texas State University, where his thesis focused on dynamic Target Wake Time scheduling for improving energy efficiency... Read More →

Srinivas Shakkottai is the Debbie and Dennis Segers ’75 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science and Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and was a postdoctoral... Read More →

Ravis Shirkhani is a Ph.D. candidate at Northeastern University's Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, advised by Prof. Tommaso Melodia. Her research focuses on 5G and next-generation cellular networks, with an emphasis on Open RAN. Her work spans automated testing and analysis... Read More →

Zachary Smith is an associate Scientist/Engineer at ANDRO Computational Solutions working on 5G RAN. He graduated with a M.S. in Computer Science from SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook.

Srinivas Sriram has spent over two decades in RF and wireless engineering — from RF design through technical lead and solutions architect roles at companies including Meta and CableLabs, and now Senior Manager at VIAVI's VALOR Lab. There he leads independent test and evaluation... Read More →

Research Engineer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). His work focuses on OCUDU integration, OCUDU deployment, O-RAN testing, and field validation of 5G systems. He has been actively involved in integrating OCUDU with commercial O-RUs, O-RAN SMO, Non-RT RIC... Read More →

Charles Ueltschey is a Graduate Research Assistant working with Dr. Vuk Marojevic at Mississippi State University. He has continued his multi-year work with the lab from his undergraduate research. His work focuses on improving efficiency, ease of use and reproducibility of 5G protocol... Read More →

Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.

Simeon Wuthier, Ph.D., is a computer science postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where his work focuses on 5G/6G networks, O-RAN systems, and post-quantum cryptography. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where he... Read More →