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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 chaired CTA’s Video Systems Standards Development Organization (R4) from 1998 thru 2017. 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.

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 Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and a Life Member of the Society of Broadcast 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 BTS administrative committee. James serves as editor-in-chief of the BTS’s Broadcast Technology publication and is also the organization’s historian. He also serves on the SMPTE Board of Editors, and is an associate editor of that organization’s Motion Imaging Journal.

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.

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.

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.

An independent Broadcast Industry advisor and a guest speaker at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dr. Peter Siebert career spans 35 years. He has held various positions within the Broadcast industry, most recently he was the Executive Director at the DVB Project Office in Geneva, where he was responsible for all organizational and technology related aspects of the DVB.  Prior to this he was with Siemens AG, where he was influential in the design of the end-to-end IPTV and set-top box solution; at SES-ASTRA he was instrumental in the introduction of digital television via satellite, for Europe, based on the DVB/MPEG-2 standards; and at Philips Kommunikations AG, he managed digital audio and visual transmission. 

His involvement has been in all aspects of audio-video transmission such as video transmission over telecommunication networks (PDH/SDH), satellite and IPTV networks. He was responsible for several ETSI specifications in the area of satellite transmission, as well as for DVB standards.  He holds several patents for various aspects of audio and visual data transmission. 

Dr. Peter Siebert received his M.Sc. degree in 1984 and his Ph.D. degree in 1989 in physics from the University in Frankfurt, Germany.  In addition, he holds a degree in economics from the University in Hagen, Germany and an MBA from the Open University Milton Keynes, UK. He is a Senior IEEE Member and 2022-2024 Adcom member of IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS). 

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.

Peter Symes worked in the television and related industries from 1967 until his retirement in 2016.

His early career included BS (honors) 1967 from University of Wales, and positions in the BBC Studio Planning & Installation Department, Philips Broadcast, and Central Dynamics Ltd.

In 1983 he joined Grass Valley Group (subsequently Tektronix, subsequently Thomson Broadcast), and held positions responsible for product planning, strategic planning, intellectual property management, and technological liaison.  He represented Grass Valley in many organizations including the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).  In July 2007 Symes  joined SMPTE staff as Director of Standards & Engineering, a position held until retirement in 2016.

Symes holds three patents and is the joint recipient of an Emmy award for the architecture of the digital picture processor.  He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of SMPTE, and a Certified Standards Professional (2013) by the Society for Standards Professionals (SES).

Peter has written and presented numerous papers at industry conferences, and is the author of three books on Video Compression, all published by McGraw Hill.  He has also contributed to other books, including two editions of the NAB Engineering Handbook.

Symes served on the Board of Governors of SMPTE from 1987 to 2007, and on the Board of Directors of ATSC from 2009 to 2015.

Yiyan Wu (Fellow 2001) received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. 

He is a Principal Research Scientist of the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC).  Dr. Wu’s research interests include broadband multimedia communications, digital broadcasting, and communication systems engineering.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, an adjunct professor of Carleton University, and Western University in Canada.  Dr. Wu is a member of the ATSC Board of Directors, representing IEEE.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. He has been named a Member of the Order of Canada, since 2018.

Greg Best. Greg attended Missouri Institute of Science & Technology graduating in 1976 with a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering, and received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1980. Greg joined Motorola to work on the first 900 MHz cellphone and later worked at Harris Broadcast (now Gates Radio) with various roles from design engineer to TV Product Manager. Greg moved to the consulting field and currently serves the broadcast and communications industry as the President of Greg Best Consulting Inc. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the field of Electrical Engineering, registered in four states. Greg is a member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE), Society of Broadcast Engineers, and served as a past IEEE Broadcast Standards Committee chair. Greg was the recipient of the 2012 IEEE BTS Matti Siukola Memorial Award at the Broadcast Technology Symposium for the best symposium paper.

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)

Jim Stenberg is the EVP of RF infrastructure at Signal Infrastructure Group PBC.   In his position he oversees the design, specification, procurement, installation and operation of nextgen TV Single Frequency Networks (SFN) and other RF equipment.   Prior to joining SIG, he was with American Tower Corporation for 8 years as a principal broadcast RF engineer where he was a subject matter expert for the company regarding broadcast antennas and rf systems particularly their multi-tenant broadband systems.  Earlier he ran his own broadcast consulting and field service business, worked for several filter/antenna manufacturers and designed and built numerous TV and FM RF systems.  In 2020 he was awarded the NAB Television Engineering Achievement Awarded.  He lives in Portland, Maine and has a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts - Lowell.

Liang Zhang [M’11, SM’14, F’22] received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the department of electrical and computer engineering from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, in 1998 and 2002. Dr. Zhang is a Senior Research Scientist with the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and is currently responsible for research program coordination and oversight. His main research areas include convergence of next generation broadband and broadcast systems, spectrum monitoring and data analysis, and spectrum policies. He has been deeply involved in the ATSC 3.0 standardization activities on developing the layered-division-multiplexing (LDM) technology, in-band distribution link (IDL), integrated access and backhaul (IAB), and inter-tower communications network (ITCN).

 

Dr. Zhang is an IEEE Fellow, Chair of IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) Fellows Evaluation Committee, previous Chair of IEEE BTS Distinguished Lecturer Committee, elected member of the IEEE BTS Administrative Committee (AdCom), IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and IET Communications Journal. Dr. Zhang has more than 100 peer-reviewed Journal and conference publications, many technical contributions on Digital Radio Broadcast (DAB) and ATSC 3.0 standards, and received over ten Best Paper Awards from IEEE, IBC and NAB for his work on the next generation ATSC 3.0 and the 5G broadcasting systems.

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