AdCom & Officers

I received a Bachelor's Degree in Communications in 1977. I have worked in broadcasting since 1973 in both radio and television. I have planned and constructed two start-up full power television stations. I have extensive experience in planning, design and the construction of all facets of a television station. I am currently responsible for the planning and development of all technology projects at Iowa Public Television including RF transmission facilities, and studio origination facilities throughout the State of Iowa. I am active in future broadcast planning on the national level and serve on a number of committees developing standards for emerging technologies such as hybrid television, mobile digital television and 3D television. I am a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society of Broadcast Engineers and the Society of Cable Television Engineers ACTIVITIES: SBE: I am the current treasurer for SBE Chapter 109. I have been the chair and vice chair of the chapter. IEEE: I am the current vice president of the Broadcast Technology Society. I served two terms as the BTS president. I chair the IEEE-USA Communications Committee. I am a member of the IEEE.tv advisory committee, the IEEE Future Directions Committee, and IEEE Technical Activities Products and Services Committee SMPTE: I am the Central Region Governor for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. ATSC: I am an active member of the ATSC 3.0 working group creating the standards for the next generation of television broadcasting. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS: From 1999 - 2009, working at Iowa Public Television I lead the team that puts together the Iowa DTV Symposium, an education event attended annually by more than 400 people which provided industry engineers a forum to learn and understand the challenges, opportunities and technologies applied in the conversion of the television system in the United States from analog to digital. In 2008 I was honored as the Educator of the Year by the Society of Broadcast Engineers for the work I have done with educating the public and professionals regarding digital television. I presented keynote addresses to the China Content Broadcasting Network (CCBN) in March of 2010-12 at their conferences in Beijing, China. In 2011, I was a member of the committee that started the Future of Broadcast Television (FoBTV) initiative in Shanghai, China. The purpose of the initiative is to work on harmonized global standards for digital television broadcasting. I planned, engineered and managed the $47M project for converting Iowa Public Television from analog to digital which included 17 transmission facilities and the studio origination facility. I began writing for TV Technology magazine in 1987 and I have authored a monthly column called The Digital Journal for TV Technology since 1999.

Ralph Hogan is Associate General Manager for Engineering and Technical Operations. Mr. Hogan is responsible for the engineering and IT services of the Division of Public Service at Rio Salado College. He manages a department of six technical support staff. Ralph has held many nationally recognized positions in the broadcasting field. He is currently the Immediate Past President of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. Past Founding President of the Association of Public Radio Engineers, member of the National Public Radio (NPR) Distribution and Interconnect Committee and member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Administrative Committee. Ralph is a Life senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, senior member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Chair of the SBE National Certification Committee and currently serves on the Executive Board for the Society. He also volunteers time as the education chair for the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and Membership Development Chair for IEEE Region 6. As chair of the IEEE BTS education committee, Ralph has been overseeing the development of the “Bridging the Gap” training course for the society. He currently serves as Past Chair of the IEEE Region 6 Phoenix Section and previously held positions of Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. Ralph participated in establishing the IEEE Palouse Section where he served as Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary. Additionally, he served as the Emergency Alert System (EAS), State Emergency Communications Committee (SECC) chair for the State of Idaho for 12 years. He also served 6 years on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Engineering Advisory Committee. In 1986 as chief engineer of KSLU FM, he installed public radio’s first touch screen digitally controlled master control facility. Mr. Hogan has 48 plus years in public broadcasting and received a B.S. degree in Engineering Science from Louisiana State University in New Orleans. He holds a FCC General Radiotelephone Operators License with Radar Endorsement and has earned the Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer, Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer and Certified Digital Radio Broadcast Specialist certifications from the Society of Broadcast Engineers.

Bill Meintel is an Electrical Engineer with more than 40 years experience in the communications field. Bill’s first position was as a field engineer for the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and later in the FCC Media Bureau’s Policy and Rules Division. There, Bill directed the development of major spectrum utilization modeling projects as well as representing the United States at major international broadcasting conferences. Since entering private practice in 1989, he has been heavily involved in broadcast technical consulting, computer modeling and spectrum planning. He has been extensively involved in spectrum planning for Digital Television in the US and internationally as a consultant to both government and industry. Bill is Past President of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, a member of the Engineering Honor Society Tau Beta Pi and senior partner in the consulting firm of Meintel, Sgrignoli and Wallace.

Edwin L. Nass (Lanny) is the Director of Spectrum Management for CBS Broadcasting Corporation located in Washington, DC.  His office is responsible for the management of all FCC licenses held by the corporation as well as supporting CBS owned radio, television, and production facilities with propagation and FCC allocation studies, RFR evaluations and measurements, and all FCC technical filings. Lanny has spent 48 years in the broadcasting industry.  He began his career in 1969 when he was given the opportunity to go to work at WKBN Broadcasting Corporation, an AM, FM, and TV combo while concurrently attending Youngstown State University.    After a break to work as Studio Maintenance supervisor at WIS-TV in Columbia, SC, he returned to WKBN where he was assigned the position of Director of Engineering.  While in Youngstown, he was involved with the design and implementation of new technical facilities, on-going day to day operations and was instrumental in the initial design, technical department creation, and operation for a new cellular telephone and paging company also owned by the principals WKBN. Prior to joining CBS in 1996, he was the field truck manager at the ATTC field test project in Charlotte, NC subsequently moving to the ATTC Test Center in Alexandria, VA where he was responsible for the technical plant facilities that was utilized for the final testing and evaluation of the Grand Alliance HDTV digital system. Lanny has been a member of the Broadcast Technology Society of the IEEE for 22 years.  He currently serves as its treasurer on the ADCOM as well as being involved with various other committees.  He is an associate member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers having served on its board as treasurer.  He holds a General Class Radio Telephone license, Amateur Radio license, and is an active instrument rated private pilot.  Lanny lives in Port Orange, FL.

Thomas B. Silliman Tom attended Cornell University graduating in 1969 with a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering, and Tom received his Master of Engineering (Electrical) from Cornell in 1970. After graduating, Tom went to work at Electronics Research as Director of Engineering. Tom is currently the President of Electronics Research. Tom is a registered Professional Engineer in the field of Electrical Engineering, and Tom is currently registered in three states. Tom is a two term past president of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE). Currently, Tom is the secretary of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society as well as a board member for Tri-State Public Radio and TV in Evansville, Indiana. Tom is a Fellow of the IEEE. In 2008 he was the recipient of the NAB Engineering Achievement Award for Radio and in 2015 was awarded the IEEE Broadcast Techonology Society Jules Cohen Award for Outstanding Broadcast Engineering.

Pablo Angueira (M’04, SM’11), received the M.S. and PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 1997 and 2002 respectively. He joined the Communications Engineering Department of the University of the Basque Country in 1998, where he is currently a Full Professor. He is part of the staff of the Signal Processing and Radiocommunication Lab (http://www.ehu.es/tsr) where he has been involved in research on digital broadcasting (DVB-T, DRM, T-DAB, DVB-T2, DVB-NGH and ATSC 3.0) for more than 20 years. Pablo Angueira is coauthor of an extensive list of papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and a large number of conference presentations in digital broadcasting. He has also coauthored several contributions to the ITU-R working groups WP6 and WP3.

His main research interests are network planning and spectrum management applied to digital terrestrial broadcast technologies. He is currently involved in research activities related to broadcasting in a 5G environment.

Dr. Angueira is the Chair of the IEEE BTS Publications Committee, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and part of the IEEE BMSB International Steering Committee. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE BTS.

Roz is presently the Senior Director of Radio Engineering for Cox Media Group. Roz began his career in radio in 1984 at CBS’s WYNF/WSUN combo in Tampa.   In 1986, he moved over to Infinity’s WQYK to assist in a ground up construction of a directional 50kw AM station among other projects. In 1988, he returned to CBS and was their Director of Technical Operations until the station was acquired by Cox Radio in 1993. Roz has chaired several committees for Cox including: Broadcast - IT Security, Automation Standardization, RF Safety Policy, and Broadcast Data Transmission. ­ He serves as the technical representative for CMG in the BTC (Broadcasters’ Traffic Consortium), the NABRTC (National Association of Broadcasters Radio Technical Committee), the Nielsen Technical Advisory Committee and the NRSC (National Radio Systems Committee). Other industry related activities include SBE-Tampa Chapter Chair, Co-Chair, and Secretary.  He presently serves as the Treasurer and participates in the national SBE treasurer committee.  He also actively participates developing the yearly technical training program the Tampa SBE chapter hosts in early November. He was awarded “Best Engineer of the Year” in 2015 at the SBE national level. He is a representative in the EAS Operational Area 8, and was involved in the NAB Ad-Hoc committee researching the use of separate antennas for HD radio, which was a concept he conceived known as space combining.   His has written various articles on technology for Radio magazine and was awarded the “Best Technical Article of the Year” for a paper written after the hurricane season of 2004 regarding disaster preparations called “Disaster Planning Put to Good Use”. Roswell presents occasionally at the NAB on topics such as “Disaster Planning and Recovery” and “Data Transmission Capabilities over FM”. Roz attended Truman University in Missouri and holds several industry related certifications including MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer), CPBE (Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer), and CBNT (Certified Broadcast Network Engineer).

Christine M. Di Lapi received a B.S.E.E. from Clemson University in 1987 and a M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. From 1990 until 2009 Christine worked for Motorola Inc., specializing in all kinds of international spectrum management issues, including those for mobile multimedia broadcasting. Since 2011 she has been employed by Exelis Inc. as a spectral assurance engineer and from 2009 through 2011 she worked at MITRE Corporation. From 2007 until 2012 Christine was a Vice Chairperson of ITU-R Study Group 6, which represents the broadcasting service. She has also been elected twice to BTS’s Advisory Committee, and since 2010 has been BTS’s IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) liaison.

Friedel is the Executive Vice President and General Manager for FOX Networks Engineering & Operations. He oversees long-term technology strategy and day-to-day operations for the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles and the Fox Houston Technical Operations Center, home of Fox Sports’ regional networks, and provides technical support for 14 regional production centers. Before joining FOX, Friedel served in various positions at Capital Cities/ABC, NBC News and local television stations.He is a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and a member of the Audio Engineering Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Society of Broadcast Engineers and Society of Cable Television Engineers. In addition to his ATSC responsibilities he serves as President of the Video Services Forum and is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association Board of Directors.Friedel was honored by the National Association of Broadcasters with the 2015 NAB Engineering Achievement Award, bestowed to individuals nominated by their peers for significant contributions to advancing the state of the art in broadcast engineering.

<p><strong>Shuji Hirakawa</strong> received Ph.D. degree from University of Tokyo in 1978. As a Ph.D. student, he pioneered research on “coded modulation”. His ground-breaking work was published in a paper, co-authored with Professor Hideki Imai, in the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology (Vol. IT-23, pp.371-377, 1977.) and was selected as one of seventeen papers to receive IEEE Golden Jubilee Paper Award in 1998. Dr. Hirakawa joined Toshiba Corporation in 1978. In late 80’s and early 90’s, he was deeply involved in the development of MUSE encoder for analog HDTV transmission. From 1998, his group developed a new broadcasting satellite service (BSS) system for digital sound broadcasting and was adopted by Japanese industrial standardization body (ARIB) as a domestic standards. In ITU-R, he developed Recommendation BO.1130 System E for Japanese BSS (sound) in 1999 and 2000. Dr. Hirakawa has been also a key member in many international standardization organizations. He was a vice-chairman of ITU-R WP 6M (Multimedia and Interactive broadcasting system) until Oct. 2007 and he is currently the Secretary of IEC TC 100 (Audio, Video and Multimedia Systems and Equipment). He is an IEEE Fellow, an editorial board of the Proceeding of the IEEE, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and he has been the Secretary 2004-05, the Vice Chairman 2006-07 and the Chairman 2008-09 of IEEE Broadcast Technology Japan Chapter.</p> Toshiba Corporation, Shibaura 1-Chrome, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105-8001 Japan Phone: +81 80 3096 2606 Shuji.hirakawa@ieee.org

Dr. Hans Hoffmann is Head of the unit on Media Fundamentals and Production technology in the EBU Technology and Development department. His team is investigating questions in regard to future TV and audio formats, media information management and broadcaster’s questions in bi-tri-media production environment, networks and media storage as well as Quality Control. In addition, he oversees all standards activities of the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers as Engineering Vice President for the term 2011, 2012-2013.Before moving to the EBU, he has been with the IRT Munich as research staff in Television technologies. Hans has been initiating and chairing a number of international projects in the area of TV production, HD and beyond, 3D, and file-based production and workflows. He has been responsible for establishing the EBU HDTV Lab with key investigations on future HDTV formats and a number of innovative technology demonstrations at various conferences. Hans is a Member of the IEEE, FKT, SID and recognized speaker and contributor to international conferences.

Samina Husain received her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1987 from Concordia University, Montreal and her executive M.B.A in “Management of Technology” in 2008 from University of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. In her role at Reycom AG, in Switzerland, her areas of responsibilities were within IPTV/OTT solutions business development.  In her role previous she focused on IPTV and Hybrid STB business development and headed corporate marketing, at Albis Technologies Ltd. (a spin-off from Siemens Switzerland Ltd.).  Prior to this her responsibilities were within solution management for the Nokia Siemens Networks end-to-end IPTV solution.  From 2005 to 2006 she was responsible for business development in the China market for the Siemens Home Entertainment IPTV solution.  She has over 25 years experience in the satellite and telecommunications industry and has held various roles from customer operations, product management to project management in North and South America, and Europe. She joined IEEE as a university student, and later became a professional member active both in WIE and BTS.  At the 2009 BTS symposium she presented a joint paper on the “Business Case and Technical Requirements for IPTV STB”.

Stephen Lockwood is President and Senior Engineer with Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers, with more than 35 years experience in the field of broadcasting and telecommunications engineering.   He is a Registered Professional Electrical Engineer (PE) in Washington, Alaska, and Wyoming and holds a BS Electrical Engineering and BS Engineering Physics from Oklahoma Christian University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member and past president of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE) and is a Member of Project Management Institute where is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP). He is Member Society of Broadcast Engineers where he holds the certification of Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer (CPBE) and AM Directional Specialist (AMD) and holds Amateur Radio Operator License K7SSL.

Recognized worldwide as long‐time digital television industry leader, Luplow was Zenith's representative for the "Digital HDTV Grand Alliance" and the FCC’s ACATS, which selected Zenith’s technology as the ATSC DTV transmission system.   Luplow, recently retired, is now a consultant for his former employer, Zenith Electronics.  Luplow and LG/Zenith, are extremely involved with the Standardization and Deployment of Next Gen Television (aka as ATSC 3.0). An IEEE Life-Fellow, Luplow served as editor of the IEEE's Transactions on Consumer Electronics for 35 years.  He has contributed articles to numerous IEEE and other industry publications. Luplow is a 2006 recipient of the prestigious IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award, for “contributions to the development of the vestigial sideband (VSB) digital transmission system for digital television broadcasting.”  Wayne is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society’s Administrative Committee (AdCom) and is a decades-long member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Board of Governors. Luplow has been a member of the ATSC Board of Directors since 1988, serving as Board-Chair in 2010, and has chaired CEA’s Video Systems Standards Development Organization (R4) since 1998. With degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin (1962) and Pennsylvania (1964), Luplow resides with his wife Judy in Libertyville, IL.  They have 4 adult children and nine grandchildren.

Dave Siegler is Vice President of Technical Operations for Cox Media Group (CMG) at the company’s Atlanta, Ga. headquarters.  In this role, Dave is responsible for leading and growing the integrated media company through the rapidly changing technologies and consumers’ growing digital demands. Specifically, he manages CMG’s Technical Operations groups to integrate new technologies and processes across various platforms for all of CMG’s broadcast television stations, one local cable television station, radio stations and newspaper. Prior to his current position, Siegler was Cox’s Director of Broadcast Operations & Engineering for the company’s television operations in Charlotte, NC and served 13 years in various positions with Post-Newsweek Television Stations. Dave is a Fellow Member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and Life Member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He is a recipient of Broadcasting & Cable’s Technology Leadership Award. He currently is Chair of the ATSC 3.0 Personalization Interactivity & Interactivity Implementation Team, serves as Chair of NAB’s Television Technology Committee and is a member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Broadcast Technology Society.

 
Education:
PhD in Telemmatics Engineering, Universidad de Vigo. Vigo, Spain.2010
MBA, Universidad de Montevideo. Montevideo, Uruguay. 1999
Electrical Engineer, Universidad de la República. Montevideo, Uruguay. 1994

Professional Positions: 
Advisor of the Ministry of Industry-National Telecommunications Agency (Dirección Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, Ministerio de Indutria, Energía y Minería, Uruguay). 2011 to the present 
20+ years of experience on Engineering and Technical Management of TV station and cable and satellite head-ends in Uruguay. 1991-2010 at SAETA TV Canal 10 and TCC media group.
Consultant Engineer at GEOCOM Uruguay. 2000-2005. VoIP, Multimedia POS. 
Responsible or co-responsible for scientific and professional projects. 

Academic Positions:
Director of the ICT Department at the School of Engineering of Universidad de Montevideo. 2002 to the present.
Professor at Universidad de la República. 1995 to the present.

Prizes and Recognitions: 
Member of the National Research System (SNI-ANII) at Uruguay. 
Member of National Engineering Academy, Uruguay (Academia Nacional de Ingeniería).
PhD Thesis: "Audiovisual contents recommender systems for groups". Sobresaliente Cum-Laude. Universidad de Vigo, 2010. 
Award for the best thesis from the National Engineering Academy, Uruguay, 2010. 

Publications:
See: http://scholar.google.com.uy/citations?hl=en&user=F8eRrgIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Author of the book “TV-Anytime. Paving the Way for Personalized TV” Authors: Gil Solla, Alberto, Sotelo Bovino, Rafael G., Springer 2013 http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642367656


Present Positions at IEEE:
Chair of IEEE Cono Sur Council (2017). Cono Sur Council groups IEEE Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay Sections.
Member of Administrative Committee of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (2016-2018)
Associate Editor of IEEE Broadcast Technology Magazine
IEEE Senior Member
Chair of IEEE Uruguay Section (2015-2016)
Chair of the Uruguay Chapter of IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (Founder)
Vice-Chair of the Uruguay Chapter of IEEE Communications Society

Glynn Walden is the retired Senior VP of Engineering for CBS Radio where he was responsible for new technology roll outs including CBS Radio’s conversion to HD radio. He currently consults for CBS Radio and other interesting projects. In 1991 he helped found USA Digital Radio, a consortium of broadcasters developing In Band On Channel (IBOC) technology.  USADR merged with Lucent Digital Radio to form iBiquity Digital Corporation.  Previously he was the VP of Engineering for Westinghouse Broadcasting’s Group W Radio where he focused on improvements to the AM and FM broadcasting including digital broadcasting. He has been an active industry voice advocating technical improvements, protections of the FCC allocations, rules and AM improvement. He holds 4 patents covering digital radio and in 1993 received the Westinghouse Signature of Excellence for that work.  At the April 2004 National Association of Broadcasters Convention. Mr. Walden was presented the industry’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the industry and its transition to digital radio. Mr. Walden began his radio career in Miami Florida at WEDR-FM as its first Chief Engineer.  He holds a BS from Florida International University.

S. Merrill Weiss is a consultant in electronic media technology and technology management. His career spans 50 years in electronic media and related fields, with 41 years in management and consulting. He has been involved in development of industry standards for 40 years, participating in work on nearly all of the digital technologies developed within SMPTE and ATSC. He has chaired numerous industry standards development committees for the last 35 years and has been a member of the SMPTE Standards Committee for 29 years. Weiss has written several books and book chapters and has presented and/or published over 200 papers, many of them at the IEEE Broadcast Technology Symposium. He developed the technology for synchronization of transmitters in the ATSC system, enabling use of Single-Frequency Networks (SFNs) with the ATSC Digital Television Standard. Merrill is a SMPTE Fellow and received the SMPTE David Sarnoff Gold Medal Award in 1995 and the SMPTE Progress Medal in 2005. He received the NAB Television Engineering Achievement Award in 2006 and the ATSC Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award in 2012. He won the IEEE BTS Matti S. Siukola Memorial Award in both 2012 and 2013. He holds four issued US patents and two international patents. Weiss was elected to the IEEE BTS Administrative Committee (AdCom), serving continuously since 2009. He also represents BTS on the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Weller is Vice President for Spectrum Policy at the National Association of Broadcasters, where he is responsible for developing strategies to protect broadcast spectrum.  Prior to joining NAB, he was Chief of Technical Analysis at the Federal Communications Commission and was responsible for developing mathematical models relating to propagation, RF Safety, frequency allotments, and other areas.  Mr. Weller is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, (BS) and of The George Washington University (MS), where he majored in Electromagnetics.  He has split his 30-year career between the public and private sectors, holding a number of technical and management positions at the FCC and also working as consulting engineer to the telecommunications industry.  Mr. Weller is a Registered Professional Engineer, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of Subcommittee 4 (RF) of the International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety, the IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation, the Bioelectromagnetics Society, and is a three-time president of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE).  He has written extensively on signals analysis, interference mitigation, RF exposure mitigation, and a various regulatory matters.

As a Distinguished Lecturer, Yiyan is willing to travel to any BTS Chapters.  Yiyan Wu</strong> (F’2001)received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 1990, he worked at Telesat Canada as a Senior Satellite Communication Systems Engineer. In 1992, he joined the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Ottawa, where he is currently a Principle Research Scientist. His research interests include broadband multimedia communications, digital broadcasting, and communication systems engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow and an Adjunct Professor of Carleton University, Ottawa. He has the authored or coauthored more than 250 publications. Dr. Wu is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Administrative Committee and a member of Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) representing IEEE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING. He has received many technical awards and patents for his contribution to the research and development of digital broadcasting and broadband multimedia communications. Communication Research Centre, Ottawa, ON K2H 8S2 Canada Phone: +1 613 998 2870  yiyan.wu@crc.ca

Pablo Angueira (M’04, SM’11), received the M.S. and PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 1997 and 2002 respectively. He joined the Communications Engineering Department of the University of the Basque Country in 1998, where he is currently a Full Professor. He is part of the staff of the Signal Processing and Radiocommunication Lab (http://www.ehu.es/tsr) where he has been involved in research on digital broadcasting (DVB-T, DRM, T-DAB, DVB-T2, DVB-NGH and ATSC 3.0) for more than 20 years. Pablo Angueira is coauthor of an extensive list of papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and a large number of conference presentations in digital broadcasting. He has also coauthored several contributions to the ITU-R working groups WP6 and WP3.

His main research interests are network planning and spectrum management applied to digital terrestrial broadcast technologies. He is currently involved in research activities related to broadcasting in a 5G environment.

Dr. Angueira is the Chair of the IEEE BTS Publications Committee, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and part of the IEEE BMSB International Steering Committee. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE BTS.

<p><strong>Greg Best</strong> is President of Greg Best Consulting, Inc. His firm performs broadcast consulting services for a large variety of customers and serves the RF communications industry in general. Greg earned his BSEE degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla and MSEE degree from Illinois Institute of Technology. Greg has 30 years experience in the design, marketing, and product management of RF communications equipment. His corporate experience includes 16 years with the Broadcast Division of Harris where he was responsible for TV transmitter design and management. While there, he was responsible for coordinating the development of the Platinum Series VHF TV transmitter, as well as many other VHF and UHF TV transmitters. He has also worked for Motorola on the original 800 MHz AMPS cellular phone system transmitter development and for IFR Systems Test and Measurement division developing 3 GHz spectrum analyzers. He has published papers on TV Transmitter Multichannel Sound and others on TV Transmitter Design Architecture. Greg is a registered Professional Engineer, member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers, IEEE, and SBE. Greg currently heads the IEEE DTV RF Measurement Standards activities and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.</p> <p>Greg Best Consulting, Inc., Kansas City, MO 64157 USA <br />Phone: +1 816 792 2913 <br />gbconsulting@kc.rr.com</p>

As a Distinguished Lecturer, Guy is willing to travel to any BTS Chapters. Guy Bouchard is director, transmission systems at Télé-Québec. He is responsible for digital delivery infrastructure at Télé-Québec. During his 33 years with the CBC, Guy has worked in analog and digital television transmission and production systems, as well as satellite and terrestrial microwave communication systems. He holds a degree in telecommunications from the Université du Québec. He is a board member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society AdCom. Guy has served the broadcast industry since 1979 with a special interest in digital communications systems. He has written and delivered papers on DTV, Satellite and MPEG Transport Technology for the NAB, CCBE, IEEE, Canadian Digital Television (CDTV), and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)

Dr. Chernock will soon retire as Chief Science Officer at Triveni Digital. Future plans include pursuing music (playing & creating musical instruments), electronics, woodworking & spending time with family – as well as remaining in touch with the broadcast industry. Dr. Chernock was previously chairman of the ATSC Technology Group on ATSC 3.0 (TG3), Technology and Standards Group (TG1) and the AHG on service delivery and synchronization for ATSC 3.0 – as well as many other leadership roles in ATSC. He is also the Distinguished Lecturer Chair for IEEE BTS and the Vice-Chair of the Management Committee of FOBTV. Dr. Chernock is a recipient of the ATSC Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award, the NAB Engineering Achievement Award (Television) and is an IEEE Fellow. In another life, he used transmission electron microscopy to study materials characteristics for advanced ceramics packaging and semiconductor technology at IBM. His ScD was from MIT in the field of nuclear materials engineering.

<p><strong>Joseph Wout </strong>(M'05) received the M. Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Ghent University (Belgium), in July 2000, and a Ph. D. degree in March 2005. Since October 2007, he is a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the FWO-V (Research Foundation – Flanders). Since October 2009 he is professor in the domain of Experimental Characterization of wireless communication systems. His professional interests are electromagnetic field exposure assessment, propagation/performance for wireless communication systems, antennas and calibration, and Quality of Experience. He is currently chair of the GOLD member committee of BTS.</p> <p>Hobbies: running (10 km, 20km, marathon), reading, hiking</p>

James E. O’Neal has been involved in broadcast technology for more than half a century, beginning with employment during his early teen years at a commercial radio station (KXAR) in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas. He continued to work in both radio and television operations on a part-time basis throughout his high school and college years, beginning a fulltime broadcast engineering career after receiving his college degree. James worked in broadcast engineering for nearly 37 years before retiring in 2005 and launching a second career as technology editor at TV Technology magazine. He held this position for nearly a decade, and now serves as technology consultant for that publication. More than 30 years of Mr. O’Neal’s broadcast engineering career was spent with U.S. Government television operations, including the United States Information Agency’s Television and Film Service, WORLDNET Television, and VOA-TV. During his association with these organizations, James assisted in launching the USIA’s first global satellite-delivered television network, and was heavily involved in both television facility design and satellite transmission engineering operations. He enjoys researching and writing about broadcasting history and persons who have made important contributions in this field. He is a frequent contributor to TV Technology and its sister publications, Radio World. He enjoys collecting and restoring both consumer radio and television items and commercial broadcasting equipment, including an operating replica of the 1947-vintage small town radio station where he began his broadcasting career. Mr. O’Neal is a 1969 graduate of the University of Arkansas and holds both commercial and amateur radio licenses. He is holds Professional Broadcast Engineer and Broadcast Networking Engineer certification from the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He is a life member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. In addition, he serves as a member of the IEEE’s Editorial Advisory Board and is a member of the IEEE’s Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) administrative committee. James serves as editor-in-chief of the BTS’s Broadcast Technology publication and is also the organization’s historian. He is a manager of the Washington, D.C. SMPTE section and serves on the SMPTE Board of Editors, and is an associate editor of that organization’s Motion Imaging Journal. James is also a member of the board of directors of the National Capital Museum of Radio and Television and the Early Television Foundation.

Studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires, worked in Broadcast Automation and Data Center Infrastructure for 17 years, 10 of them in Turner International Argentina a Time Warner Company, as Senior Manager of Systems Assurance and Operations. Now she works in Globant as Technical Director for Cloud Operations Technologies Studio She is IEEE Argentina Secretary since 2013, President of Women in Engineering since 2011, and also Secretary of BTS Argentina and BTS AdCom member since 2012.

Eric R. Wandel

BTS Representative for Committee on Man and Radiation / International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety

 

 

Eric R. Wandel, P.E., is the principal engineer and President of Wavepoint Research, Inc. where he provides RF and communications engineering services to the broadcast industry as well as to other communications providers. His research and engineering services includes work for military customers in efforts related to antenna development, radar system optimization and electronic warfare signal processing.  In addition, he conducts studies related to antenna design and development, RF radiation hazard assessment, and a variety of applications requiring computational electromagnetic (CEM) modeling, including antenna pattern and EM optimization studies.   

 

Mr. Wandel received dual Bachelors' Degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a Masters' Degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Indiana.  Mr. Wandel is a Member and Past-President of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves on the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) Administrative Committee representing BTS as a liaison to the International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES) and the IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR).  He is a co-author of the "FM Broadcast Antennas" chapter of the NAB Engineering Handbook 11th Edition.     

 

Eric Wandel, Wavepoint Research, Inc., PO Box 96, Crane, IN 47522

eric@wavepointresearch.com, (812) 453-2544

As a Distinguished Lecturer, Yiyan is willing to travel to any BTS Chapters.  Yiyan Wu</strong> (F’2001)received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 1990, he worked at Telesat Canada as a Senior Satellite Communication Systems Engineer. In 1992, he joined the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Ottawa, where he is currently a Principle Research Scientist. His research interests include broadband multimedia communications, digital broadcasting, and communication systems engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow and an Adjunct Professor of Carleton University, Ottawa. He has the authored or coauthored more than 250 publications. Dr. Wu is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Administrative Committee and a member of Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) representing IEEE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING. He has received many technical awards and patents for his contribution to the research and development of digital broadcasting and broadband multimedia communications. Communication Research Centre, Ottawa, ON K2H 8S2 Canada Phone: +1 613 998 2870  yiyan.wu@crc.ca