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October 20-22 | Alexandria, Virgina
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
Tuesday, October 20
 

8:00am EDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Tuesday October 20, 2026 8:00am - 5:40pm EDT
Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 8:00am - 5:40pm EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks
Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

9:10am EDT

Keynote Sessions to be Announced
Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:10am - 11:00am EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:10am - 11:00am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

10:30am EDT

Demo Presentations
Tuesday October 20, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
 - Scaling OCUDU Deployment and Orchestration With O-RAN Based O-Cloud Best Practices - Chris Wheeler, Red Hat & Nils Fürste, SRS - 5G LAB KIT: Using OCUDU for Training and Education - Tiago Alves, Allbesmart, Lda - AI-Native RAN With OCUDU: An Open Research Testbed - Vipin Rathi, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi & Kriish Sharma, Ramanujan College  - AI-RAN DApps...
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Speakers
avatar for Fatemeh Afghah

Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University
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 →
avatar for Tiago Alves

Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda
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 →
avatar for Craig Brennan

Craig Brennan

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

Dominic Catena

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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 →
avatar for Chen Chen

Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University
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 →
avatar for Xuan Chen

Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University
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 →
avatar for Hai Cheng

Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks
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.
avatar for Fernando Cintron

Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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 →
avatar for Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University
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 →
avatar for Angelo Feraudo

Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University
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 →
avatar for Taimoor Islam

Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
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 →
avatar for John Keeney

John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology
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.
avatar for Woo-Hyun Ko

Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices
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 →
avatar for Rafael Lawisch

Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos
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 →
avatar for Thanh Long Le

Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design
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 →
avatar for Wilfred Luiz

Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions
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 →
avatar for Dustin Maas

Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah
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.
avatar for Caleb McKinney

Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin
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 →
avatar for Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig
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.
avatar for Matt Pennybacker

Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.
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 →
avatar for Michele Polese

Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University
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 →
avatar for Vipin Rathi

Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
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 →
avatar for Abdullah AL Safi

Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank
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 →
avatar for Srinivas Shakkottai

Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University
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 →
avatar for Ravis Shirkhani

Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)
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 →
avatar for Zachary Smith

Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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.
avatar for Srinivas Sriram

Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions
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 →
avatar for Nguyen Thanh Tam

Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
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 →
avatar for Charles Ueltschey

Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University
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 →
avatar for Chris Wheeler

Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat
Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.
avatar for Simeon Wuthier

Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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 →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
  Demo Presentations

11:00am EDT

Coffee Break
Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

11:30am EDT

Update on the PHY and Roadmap - Xavier Arteaga, Software Radio Systems
Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
This session reviews recently implemented physical layer (PHY) features, including extended downlink MIMO and TTI bundling. I will present the key engineering challenges encountered during development and the practical solutions we deployed to overcome them. The talk concludes with a forward-looking overview of upcoming PHY enhancements, outlining anticipated implementation hurdles and our...
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Speakers
avatar for Xavier Arteaga

Xavier Arteaga

Staff Engineer, Software Radio Systems
Xavier Arteaga specializes in wireless communications and software-defined radio (SDR). With over 10 years of experience in physical layer development, he currently leads the physical layer development at Software Radio Systems designing 5G NR solutions that comply with 3GPP, Open... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

12:00pm EDT

OCUDU on AMD-Based Hardware Platforms: EPYC Performance, GPU Acceleration - Neerav Parikh, AMD
Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
This technical talk presents AMD’s work running and optimizing the OCUDU software stack on AMD EPYC-based hardware platforms. It will cover benchmark methodology, CPU performance characterization, software and library optimization opportunities, and a forward-looking proposal for an AMD GPU acceleration backend for selected OCUDU processing paths.
Speakers
avatar for Neerav Parikh

Neerav Parikh

Fellow Software System Design Engineer, AMD
Neerav Parikh is a Fellow Software System Design Engineer at AMD focused on communications infrastructure, networking, storage, HPC, AI infrastructure, and performance engineering for AMD-based platforms. His work spans AMD EPYC CPU enablement, infrastructure software stacks, open-source... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

12:30pm EDT

Configuration Schema for OCUDU Apps - Franciszek Maroszek, Software Radio Systems
Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
Configuration schema is a recent addition to the OCUDU codebase that provides a standardized description of the apps configuration in the JSON Schema format – generated directly by the apps themselves, so it’s always up-to-date. This allows for other tools to interpret, process and interact with the OCUDU configuration in a deterministic and repeatable manner. This session explains how OCUDU...
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Speakers
avatar for Franciszek Maroszek

Franciszek Maroszek

Software Engineer, Software Radio Systems
Software engineer with 10 years of experience in 4G LTE and 5G NR cellular networks, since 2025 working for Software Radio Systems and developing OCUDU. Co-founder of Hackerspace Wrocław and open-source software enthusiast.
Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

1:00pm EDT

Demo Presentations
Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
 - Scaling OCUDU Deployment and Orchestration With O-RAN Based O-Cloud Best Practices - Chris Wheeler, Red Hat & Nils Fürste, SRS - 5G LAB KIT: Using OCUDU for Training and Education - Tiago Alves, Allbesmart, Lda - AI-Native RAN With OCUDU: An Open Research Testbed - Vipin Rathi, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi & Kriish Sharma, Ramanujan College  - AI-RAN DApps...
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Speakers
avatar for Fatemeh Afghah

Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University
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 →
avatar for Tiago Alves

Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda
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 →
avatar for Craig Brennan

Craig Brennan

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

Dominic Catena

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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 →
avatar for Chen Chen

Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University
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 →
avatar for Xuan Chen

Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University
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 →
avatar for Hai Cheng

Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks
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.
avatar for Fernando Cintron

Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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 →
avatar for Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University
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 →
avatar for Angelo Feraudo

Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University
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 →
avatar for Taimoor Islam

Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
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 →
avatar for John Keeney

John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology
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.
avatar for Woo-Hyun Ko

Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices
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 →
avatar for Rafael Lawisch

Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos
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 →
avatar for Thanh Long Le

Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design
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 →
avatar for Wilfred Luiz

Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions
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 →
avatar for Dustin Maas

Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah
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.
avatar for Caleb McKinney

Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin
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 →
avatar for Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig
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.
avatar for Matt Pennybacker

Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.
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 →
avatar for Michele Polese

Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University
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 →
avatar for Vipin Rathi

Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
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 →
avatar for Abdullah AL Safi

Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank
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 →
avatar for Srinivas Shakkottai

Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University
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 →
avatar for Ravis Shirkhani

Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)
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 →
avatar for Zachary Smith

Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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.
avatar for Srinivas Sriram

Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions
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 →
avatar for Nguyen Thanh Tam

Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
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 →
avatar for Charles Ueltschey

Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University
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 →
avatar for Chris Wheeler

Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat
Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.
avatar for Simeon Wuthier

Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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 →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
  Demo Presentations

1:00pm EDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for Registered Attendees)
Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

1:00pm EDT

Poster Presentations
Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
 - An Ns-3 Digital Twin Platform for OCUDU-Based ISAC Networks - Mohammad Reza Fasihi, George Mason University - Designing a Performance Test Bed for Detailed Hotspot Analysis of Commercial Servers Using VTUNE - Moojan Kamalzadeh, Linqi Xiao - Hardening OCUDU for the Field: Automated Deployment, Timing Compliance, and Autonomous Fault Recover - Narayana Indukuri, Selvaganesan...
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Speakers
avatar for Mohammad Reza Fasihi

Mohammad Reza Fasihi

Wireless Researcher, George Mason University
Mohammad Reza Fasihi is a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University and an IEEE Senior Member. His research focuses on 5G/6G wireless networks, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), digital twins, O-RAN, and machine learning for intelligent... Read More →
avatar for Moojan Kamalzadeh

Moojan Kamalzadeh

Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Texas at Dallas
Moojan Kamalzadeh is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas and a researcher in the OpenLab. Her research focuses on Open RAN, software-defined optical networking, cloud-native 5G systems, and performance characterization of virtualized RAN... Read More →
avatar for Narayana Indukuri

Narayana Indukuri

Consultant Software Technologist, Dell Technologies
Narayana Indukuri is a systems engineer specializing in O-RAN integration and 5G transport timing. He has led efforts to harden the OCUDU community stack for field deployment, including designing a SCF FAPI-based abstraction layer between the O-DU MAC and High-PHY. His experience... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
  Poster Presentations

2:00pm EDT

Working Vs. Deployable: Building a Downstream Distribution on OCUDU - Michael Chiaramonte & Terence Li, Cognitive Network Solutions
Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
OCUDU gives you a working CU/DU. It does not give you something you can deploy, operate, and hand to someone else. Those are different problems, and the second is not solved by hardening the first. This is a report from the integrator's side of that line. Building a downstream distribution, we found the missing pieces fall mostly into two classes: runtime configuration/management, and...
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Speakers
avatar for Michael Chiaramonte

Michael Chiaramonte

Co-Founder & CTO, Cognitive Network Solutions Inc
Michael Chiaramonte is an RF engineer turned software developer who spent six years deploying and optimizing dense urban 5G networks. He co-founded CNS in 2024, convinced the RAN software ecosystem had real gaps in intelligent optimization and self-orchestration. He is now building... Read More →
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Terence Li

Co-founder and CEO, Cognitive Network Solutions
Terence spent two decades inside Tier 1 networks, from GSM to 5G, leading engineering teams through multiple generations of network evolution. Along the way he saw firsthand the limitations that external intelligence approaches can never overcome.
Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

2:55pm EDT

OpenWRT for RAN: Building an Opinionated, Deployable Open RAN Stack on OCUDU - Ilya Portnik, Dell Technologies
Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:55pm - 3:25pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
OCUDU has earned the title “Linux kernel of RAN”: an open, carrier-grade CU/DU. But the Linux kernel alone never shipped a router. OpenWrt did – by turning the kernel into an opinionated, deployable appliance with configuration, lifecycle management, UI, packaging, upgrades, and extensibility. OCUDU is at the same point. It provides the RAN core, but teams moving from lab to field still...
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Ilya Portnik

Director, 5G Systems, Dell Technologies
Ilya Portnik is Director, 5G Systems at Dell Technologies’ Federal 5G organization, leading evaluation and development of next-generation wireless technologies, strategic innovation, and emerging opportunities for federal customers. With over 20 years in telecom, wireless networking... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:55pm - 3:25pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

3:25pm EDT

Scaling the OCUDU O1 Adapter for Multi-RU Support: From Single-RU Sidecar To Production-Grade Fleet - Vinay Revankar, Dell Technologies & Ved Prajapati, Dell Technologies
Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
The OCUDU O1 adapter today uses a 1:1 sidecar pattern: NETCONF server, O1 adapter, single monolithic gNB config file, full restart. No per-RU addressing, no differential config push, no RU identity abstraction. Any change disrupts all connected RUs — blocking production multi-RU deployments. This talk presents Phase 1 Multi-RU enablement: six new modules within the existing K8s sidecar, without...
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Vinay Revankar

Technical Staff, Software Engineering, Dell Technologies
Vinay Ramdas Revankar is Technical Staff, Software Engineering in 5G Systems at Dell Technologies’ Federal 5G organization. With approximately 20 years of experience across Layer 2 protocol development in LTE and 5G — spanning MAC scheduling, RLC, transport layers, and O-RAN fronthaul... Read More →
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Ved Prajapati

Software Senior Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies
Ved Prajapati is a Software Senior Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies, where he oversees the architecture, design and development of the CU Control-Plane and User-Plane for Dell's 5G Open RAN portfolio. His 20+ years of career spans across the evolution from 2G, 4G LTE, 5G NR... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

4:00pm EDT

Demo Presentations
Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
 - Scaling OCUDU Deployment and Orchestration With O-RAN Based O-Cloud Best Practices - Chris Wheeler, Red Hat & Nils Fürste, SRS - 5G LAB KIT: Using OCUDU for Training and Education - Tiago Alves, Allbesmart, Lda - AI-Native RAN With OCUDU: An Open Research Testbed - Vipin Rathi, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi & Kriish Sharma, Ramanujan College  - AI-RAN DApps...
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Speakers
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Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University
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 →
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Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda
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 →
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Craig Brennan

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

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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 →
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Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University
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 →
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Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University
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 →
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Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks
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.
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Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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 →
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Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University
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 →
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Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University
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 →
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Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
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 →
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John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology
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.
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Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices
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 →
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Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos
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 →
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Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design
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 →
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Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions
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 →
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Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah
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.
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Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin
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 →
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Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig
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.
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Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.
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 →
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Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University
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 →
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Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
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 →
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Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank
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 →
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Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University
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 →
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Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)
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 →
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Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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.
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Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions
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 →
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Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
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 →
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Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University
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 →
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Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat
Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.
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Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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 →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
  Demo Presentations

4:00pm EDT

Coffee Break
Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

4:30pm EDT

Panel Session: The Road Ahead for OCUDU (Panelists to be Announced)
Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

5:30pm EDT

Playing OCUDU Over Realistic Radio Channels — No Radios, Just a Consumer GPU Platform - Zhouyou Gu, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Tuesday October 20, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
What if every OCUDU developer — from a hobbyist or first-time contributor on a laptop to a researcher training AI for 6G networks — could test the stack over realistic radio conditions, without owning any RF hardware? Today, OCUDU's ZMQ radio path is a perfect loopback: great for functional tests, but it never fades, never interferes, never moves. Real radio behaviour stays locked behind...
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Zhouyou Gu

Research Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Zhouyou (Charles) Gu is a Research Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), working on agentic AI for AI-RAN and real-time programmable RAN architectures. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2023 and builds open-source, deployment-oriented... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

6:00pm EDT

Closing Remarks
Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:00pm - 6:15pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:00pm - 6:15pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

6:15pm EDT

Ecosystem Welcome Reception
Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:15pm - 7:30pm EDT
Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:15pm - 7:30pm EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

6:15pm EDT

Demo Presentations
Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:15pm - 7:45pm EDT
 - Scaling OCUDU Deployment and Orchestration With O-RAN Based O-Cloud Best Practices - Chris Wheeler, Red Hat & Nils Fürste, SRS - 5G LAB KIT: Using OCUDU for Training and Education - Tiago Alves, Allbesmart, Lda - AI-Native RAN With OCUDU: An Open Research Testbed - Vipin Rathi, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi & Kriish Sharma, Ramanujan College  - AI-RAN DApps...
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Speakers
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Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University
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 →
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Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda
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 →
avatar for Craig Brennan

Craig Brennan

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

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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 →
avatar for Chen Chen

Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University
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 →
avatar for Xuan Chen

Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University
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 →
avatar for Hai Cheng

Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks
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.
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Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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 →
avatar for Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University
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 →
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Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University
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 →
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Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
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 →
avatar for John Keeney

John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology
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.
avatar for Woo-Hyun Ko

Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices
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 →
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Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos
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 →
avatar for Thanh Long Le

Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design
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 →
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Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions
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 →
avatar for Dustin Maas

Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah
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.
avatar for Caleb McKinney

Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin
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 →
avatar for Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig
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.
avatar for Matt Pennybacker

Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.
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 →
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Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University
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 →
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Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
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 →
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Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank
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 →
avatar for Srinivas Shakkottai

Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University
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 →
avatar for Ravis Shirkhani

Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)
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 →
avatar for Zachary Smith

Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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.
avatar for Srinivas Sriram

Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions
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 →
avatar for Nguyen Thanh Tam

Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
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 →
avatar for Charles Ueltschey

Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University
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 →
avatar for Chris Wheeler

Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat
Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.
avatar for Simeon Wuthier

Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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 →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:15pm - 7:45pm EDT
  Demo Presentations
 
Wednesday, October 21
 

8:00am EDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Foyer

Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

8:45am EDT

Keynote: Opening Remarks
Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:45am - 8:50am EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:45am - 8:50am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

8:50am EDT

Keynote Sessions to be Announced
Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:50am - 10:10am EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:50am - 10:10am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

10:10am EDT

Demo Presentations
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:10am - 10:40am EDT
 - Scaling OCUDU Deployment and Orchestration With O-RAN Based O-Cloud Best Practices - Chris Wheeler, Red Hat & Nils Fürste, SRS - 5G LAB KIT: Using OCUDU for Training and Education - Tiago Alves, Allbesmart, Lda - AI-Native RAN With OCUDU: An Open Research Testbed - Vipin Rathi, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi & Kriish Sharma, Ramanujan College  - AI-RAN DApps...
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Speakers
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John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology
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.
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Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
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 →
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Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University
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 →
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Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank
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 →
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Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University
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 →
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Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University
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 →
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Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin
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 →
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Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University
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 →
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Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University
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 →
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Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat
Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.
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Craig Brennan

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

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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 →
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Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah
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.
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Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University
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 →
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Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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 →
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Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks
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.
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Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.
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 →
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Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
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 →
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Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos
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 →
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Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)
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 →
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Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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 →
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Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University
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 →
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Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions
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 →
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Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
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 →
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Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design
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 →
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Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda
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 →
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Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig
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.
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Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions
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 →
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Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices
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 →
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Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University
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 →
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Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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.
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:10am - 10:40am EDT
  Demo Presentations

10:10am EDT

Coffee Break
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:10am - 10:40am EDT
Foyer

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:10am - 10:40am EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

10:40am EDT

Evolving the OCUDU Retina Framework for End-to-End, Multi-Vendor Integration Testing - Justin Choquette, UNH Interoperability Labs & Tom Nadeau, WindRiver
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:40am - 11:10am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
As the OCUDU ecosystem matures, validating Open RAN performance requires shifting from isolated component testing to verifying end-to-end interoperability. The current Retina testing framework is limited by tight coupling to internal processes, restricting its ability to orchestrate external components like diverse 5G Core implementations and O-RU hardware. This presentation, a collaborative...
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Tom Nadeau

Chief Archiect Solutions, WindRiver
Tom is Chief Architect of Solutions and leads the Americas Presles Solutions organization, where he and his team help delight our customers with presales architecture and solutions.

Tom was most recently The Chief Technology Officer and Fellow at Spirent. There he worked across Spirent’s products including new and emerging technologies and products. Prior to Spirent, Tom directed the Networking and Telco Solutions teams at Redhat... Read More →
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Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:40am - 11:10am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

11:10am EDT

Benchmarking and Validating O-RUs on OCUDU: Lessons From a Vendor-Neutral APAC Validation Lab - Chi Yung (Jeff) Liu, Industrial Technology Research Institute, ITRI
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
As OCUDU matures into a carrier-grade open-source 5G stack, operators and integrators need vendor-neutral, reproducible evidence of how O-RU hardware behaves in a real OCUDU deployment—not just vendor-reported claims. ITRI Lab, an OCUDU Lab partner in the APAC region, is building a neutral validation platform that benchmarks multiple RU architectures on OCUDU, using a methodology covering Open...
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Chi Yung (Jeff) Liu

Acting Deputy Manager, Industrial Technology Research Institute, ITRI
Jeff Liu leads ITRI Lab, an OCUDU Lab partner in the APAC region. With 17+ years of telecom and network engineering experience, he drives Open RAN and OCUDU ecosystem adoption across the region, leading multi-vendor RU validation, Open Fronthaul benchmarking, and integration work... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
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11:40am EDT

Hardening OCUDU: A Test-Fix-Retest Model for Open O-RAN Compliance - Srinivas Sriram, Viavi Solutions
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:40am - 12:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
Problem: Open-source O-RAN software wants to become carrier-grade, but there's no agreed way to prove it got there. Coverage gets claimed, not verified. Scanners can under-rate severity. Code that works in simulation can fail against real hardware. Solution: We play two roles: independent evaluator and remediation partner. We test and report what we find, then help fix it with the builders, and...
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Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions
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 →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:40am - 12:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

12:10pm EDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for Registered Attendees)
Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:10pm - 1:10pm EDT
Foyer

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:10pm - 1:10pm EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

1:00pm EDT

Demo Presentations
Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
 - Scaling OCUDU Deployment and Orchestration With O-RAN Based O-Cloud Best Practices - Chris Wheeler, Red Hat & Nils Fürste, SRS - 5G LAB KIT: Using OCUDU for Training and Education - Tiago Alves, Allbesmart, Lda - AI-Native RAN With OCUDU: An Open Research Testbed - Vipin Rathi, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi & Kriish Sharma, Ramanujan College  - AI-RAN DApps...
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Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University
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 →
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Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda
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 →
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Craig Brennan

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

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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 →
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Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University
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 →
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Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University
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 →
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Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks
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.
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Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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 →
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Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University
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 →
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Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University
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 →
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Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
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 →
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John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology
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.
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Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices
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 →
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Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos
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 →
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Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design
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 →
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Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions
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 →
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Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah
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.
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Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin
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 →
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Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig
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.
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Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.
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 →
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Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University
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 →
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Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
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 →
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Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank
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 →
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Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University
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 →
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Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)
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 →
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Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions
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.
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Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions
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 →
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Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
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 →
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Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University
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 →
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Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat
Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.
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Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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 →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
  Demo Presentations

1:10pm EDT

Validation of Multiple Commercial ORU; Nuances and Opportunities With OCUDU Configurations - Linqi Xiao & Moojan Kamalzadeh, The University of Texas at Dallas
Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:10pm - 1:40pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
A commercial O-RU leaves the factory unreachable, and the step that carries it to a first management session is not published. The OCUDU ecosystem already ships lab-grade pieces of that step, a Kea DHCPv4 service encoding Option 43 and an O1 adapter that accepts SSH call-home. Dorado will present what commercial multi-vendor hardware still takes: DHCPv6 with Option 17 for v6-only radios, CMPv2...
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Linqi Xiao

PhD Candidate, the University of Texas at Dallas
Linqi Xiao is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, in Prof. Andrea Fumagalli's OpNeAR Lab, which operates an accredited O-RAN Open Testing and Integration Centre. He works on M-Plane conformance and security testing of commercial O-RUs, Near-RT RIC xApps, and multi-vendor... Read More →
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Moojan Kamalzadeh

Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Texas at Dallas
Moojan Kamalzadeh is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas and a researcher in the OpenLab. Her research focuses on Open RAN, software-defined optical networking, cloud-native 5G systems, and performance characterization of virtualized RAN... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:10pm - 1:40pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

1:40pm EDT

From Lab To Field: Integrating OCUDU With Multi-Vendor O-RUs for Outdoor 5G Drone Deployments - Nguyen Thanh Tam, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
OCUDU is emerging as a key open-source foundation for carrier-grade, research-oriented 5G. While most demos remain lab-based, real-world field trials are critical for understanding operational and interoperability challenges. We present SUTD's OCUDU deployment journey, from multi-vendor O-RU interoperability testing (e.g., Sera Network, Metanoia-based, Compal, QCT, Pegatron) to a fully...
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Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
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 →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

2:10pm EDT

How Cohere Made OCUDU Deployment Ready for Achieving Spectral Efficiency - Prem Gopannan, Cohere Technologies
Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
Cohere’s Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) product is designed as an adjunct to a gNB that performs channel analysis and codebook-free MU-MIMO scheduling based on continuous calibration of the transmission chain and measuring the geometric reciprocity of the channel itself. The USM connects to gNB via gRPC wrapping the E2SM-LLC API. We’ll start the session with an introduction to how the...
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Prem Gopannan

Vice President of Product Architecture and Software Engineering, Cohere Technologies
Mr. Gopannan is an Intel Innovator and active evangelist of Microservices and Private 5G/Telco/Edge Cloud architectures. Prior to Cohere, Mr. Gopannan was the Head of Product Engineering at Lumina where he led 5G product strategy and product development. Before Lumina, he led Ericsson’s... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

2:40pm EDT

DPDK-Based User-Plane Upgrade for OCUDU: Crypto Engine & N3/F1-U Transport Interfaces - Ved Prajapati, Dell Technologies & Vinay Revankar, Dell Technologies
Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
OCUDU gives the Telecom industry a 3GPP and O-RAN compliant, open-source CU/DU stack with multiple Internal Splits and Open Fronthaul Split options. The OCUDU stack is built over a very capable Software architecture, which is easy to scale. But the user plane - specifically the Crypto engine and the N3/F1-U transport interfaces, still rely on general-purpose software primitives that are designed...
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Ved Prajapati

Software Senior Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies
Ved Prajapati is a Software Senior Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies, where he oversees the architecture, design and development of the CU Control-Plane and User-Plane for Dell's 5G Open RAN portfolio. His 20+ years of career spans across the evolution from 2G, 4G LTE, 5G NR... Read More →
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Vinay Revankar

Technical Staff, Software Engineering, Dell Technologies
Vinay Ramdas Revankar is Technical Staff, Software Engineering in 5G Systems at Dell Technologies’ Federal 5G organization. With approximately 20 years of experience across Layer 2 protocol development in LTE and 5G — spanning MAC scheduling, RLC, transport layers, and O-RAN fronthaul... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

3:10pm EDT

Coffee Break
Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Foyer

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

3:40pm EDT

United States Marine Corps Expeditionary OCUDU Deployments - Lucas Vancina, United States Marine Corps & Andy Tran, Naval Information Warfare Center
Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
In this technical and operational case study, the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) and Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific Tactical Cellular Lab (TCL) will present how they deployed OCUDU to provide 5G at the tactical edge for expeditionary military operations. During a military exercise in the spring of 2026, the TCL rapidly installed and deployed a gNB on a...
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Lucas Vancina

Tactical Cellular Architect, United States Marine Corps
Lucas Vancina is a native of Illinois, USA. He has been a Communications Officer and wireless networking specialist in the United States Marine Corps for almost a decade and has experience in tactical data networking, expeditionary and amphibious operations, and communications planning... Read More →
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Andy Tran

Software Engineer, Naval Information Warfare Center
Andy Tran spearheaded the research, development, and deployment of 5G cellular systems across the Navy and Marine Corps, specifically enhancing communications capabilities at the tactical edge of the battlefield. Beyond deployment, they have conducted rigorous analysis on the vulnerabilities... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

4:05pm EDT

Productionizing and Hardening OCUDU for Enterprise and Defense Deployments - Rajesh Rasalkar, Sempre.AI
Wednesday October 21, 2026 4:05pm - 4:35pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
Integrating OCUDU for research purpose is quite simple, however a mission critical deployable system, especially in constrained environments introduces a complex set of engineering challenges. At SEMPRE, we have taken OCUDU from source code to deployed edge systems supporting commercial and mission-critical defense applications. This session will discuss hardening OCUDU for constrained edge...
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Rajesh Rasalkar

Head of AI Research, Sempre.AI
Rajesh Rasalkar is a technology executive, entrepreneur, and wireless AI/ML architect with 25+ years of experience in wireless networking, cloud, edge computing, AI/ML, and telecommunications. He is Head of Engineering at SEMPRE.ai and PhoenixAI Technologies. At Meta, he led multiple... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 4:05pm - 4:35pm EDT
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  Breakout Sessions

4:35pm EDT

An AI-Driven Security Operator (AISecOps) for OCUDU - Haohuang Wen, SE-RAN.ai
Wednesday October 21, 2026 4:35pm - 5:05pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
Operating secure and resilient open-source RAN stacks such as OCUDU remains challenging, particularly for fine-grained runtime observability as well as real-time detection/mitigation of faults and security threats. This presentation introduces an AI-driven Security Operator (AISecOps) framework designed to harden the OCUDU architecture with self-healing and self-defending capabilities. At its...
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Haohuang Wen

Co-Founder and Technical Lead, SE-RAN.ai
Haohuang Wen is Co-Founder and Technical Lead at SE-RAN.ai, where he drives AI-driven SecOps solutions for next-generation cellular networks. He leads research and engineering initiatives specializing in securing 5G/6G/OpenRAN infrastructures through real-time RAN observability and... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 4:35pm - 5:05pm EDT
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5:05pm EDT

Zero-Trust Private 5G With Security-Hardened and Validated OCUDU GNBs - Dora Boviz, Dell Technologies
Wednesday October 21, 2026 5:05pm - 5:35pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
For many OCUDU target deployments an outage is a safety event, not just a bad customer experience: factory floors here robots and machine-vision safety loops depend on the network for low-latency control, and military and tactical sites running drone and robot command-and-control and ISAC. End users in those settings stop asking only about throughput and coverage and start asking two harder...
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Dora Boviz

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Dell Technologies
Dora Boviz is a DMTS at Dell Technologies leading architecture definition for private 5G. She holds a PhD from CentraleSupelec. An early O-RAN practitioner, she has driven the security-hardening of Dell's private 5G network solution - spanning STIG compliance, Common Criteria, high... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 5:05pm - 5:35pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

5:40pm EDT

Closing Remarks
Wednesday October 21, 2026 5:40pm - 5:55pm EDT
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Wednesday October 21, 2026 5:40pm - 5:55pm EDT
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Thursday, October 22
 

8:00am EDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:00am - 6:15pm EDT
Foyer

Thursday October 22, 2026 8:00am - 6:15pm EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Opening Remarks
Thursday October 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Thursday October 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am EDT
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  Keynote Sessions

9:05am EDT

Keynote Sessions to be Announced
Thursday October 22, 2026 9:05am - 9:45am EDT
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Thursday October 22, 2026 9:05am - 9:45am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

10:15am EDT

Building ISAC Into OCUDU: From MIMO Channel Access To End-to-End Cellular Sensing - Ish Jain, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thursday October 22, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is emerging as a key 6G capability, but enabling sensing in a real cellular stack requires exposing rich PHY measurements without disrupting real-time operation. This talk presents lessons from two open-source cellular prototypes and how they can inform ISAC support in OCUDU. MIMO-RIC extends the srsRAN 5G stack with UCSD’s EdgeRIC controller to...
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Ish Jain

Building ISAC into OCUDU: From MIMO Channel Access to End-to-End Cellular Sensing, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ish Kumar Jain is an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he leads the Wireless AI and Systems (WAYS) Lab. His research focuses on experimental wireless systems, including Open RAN, MIMO, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), mmWave networks... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

10:45am EDT

Coffee Break
Thursday October 22, 2026 10:45am - 11:10am EDT
Foyer

Thursday October 22, 2026 10:45am - 11:10am EDT
Foyer
  Meals / Breaks / Special Events

11:10am EDT

Monostatic 5G ISAC With OCUDU: Turning a 5G NR GNB Into a Radar Sensor - Oscar Venegas, Tiami Networks
Thursday October 22, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
This session presents a practical implementation of monostatic integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) using an OCUDU-based 5G NR network and software-defined radio hardware. We demonstrate how an operational 5G downlink waveform can be reused for radar sensing without requiring a dedicated radar waveform or a cooperating UE. The presentation will cover the system architecture, acquisition of...
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Oscar Venegas

Head of Radio Systems, Tiami Networks
Oscar Venegas is Head of Radio Systems at Tiami Networks, where he works on 5G, software-defined radio, and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. He has previously worked at Nokia, Qualcomm, Motorola, and Keysight, with experience spanning wireless systems, RAN, and... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

11:40am EDT

Private 5G Networks: Enterprise Deployment and Distributed MIMO Architecture - Daniel Ping, REIGN Technology Corporation
Thursday October 22, 2026 11:40am - 12:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
This 30 minutes short session will unlock the full potential of enterprise private 5G by mastering Distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) on the O-CU/DU framework. Also provides a comprehensive look at how D-MIMO is redefining industrial connectivity. Attendees will explore the practical implementation of this technology alongside real-world use cases, including tactical VR training for defense and law...
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Daniel Ping

VP of Engineering, REIGN Technology Corporation
● Vice President of Engineering, REIGN Technology Co. (Subsidiary of HTC), 2022-Present – Lead the Development and commercially deploying a comprehensive 5G NR solution (REIGN RAN CONNECT), including FDD/TDD Multi-Slicing, VoNR, PWS, MOCN, MCPTT and Distribute-MIMO/ Massive MIMO... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 11:40am - 12:10pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
  Breakout Sessions

12:10pm EDT

Adapting OCUDU for Test Range Operations - Achilles Kogiantis, Altio Labs
Thursday October 22, 2026 12:10pm - 12:40pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium
Supporting airborne and high-speed unmanned systems in test ranges requires wireless networks engineered for extreme distance, velocity, and mobility—challenges that extend well beyond conventional 5G deployments. This presentation outlines the capabilities needed to adapt O-CUDU architectures for 5G and FutureG test range operations. We will explore how to enable very large airspace cells and...
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Achilles Kogiantis

Head of Engineering / Co-Founder, Altio Labs
Dr. Kogiantis is Head of Engineering at Altio Labs, leading cellular telemetry, positioning, and sensing efforts that adapt 3GPP technologies for DoD applications. He has nearly 30 years of R&D experience, including 12 years at Bell Labs advancing MIMO for 3G/4G and 14 years at Peraton... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 12:10pm - 12:40pm EDT
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