Vice Chair:
Gerry Flynn, Verizon Wireless, USA

Finance Chair:
Francis O'Brien, Lucent Technologies, USA

Technical Program Committee Chair:
Larry Milstein, UCSD, USA

Technical Program Committee Vice Chairs:
Willie LU, Siemens, USA
C.K.Toh, TRW, USA

Tutorial Vice Chairs:
Li Fung Chang, Mobilinktel, USA
Len Cimini, AT&T, USA

Dick Lynch is executive vice president and chief technical officer for Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. Lynch is responsible for the performance of the company's coast-to-coast multibillion-dollar wireless voice and data network covering more than two million square-miles. In his prior assignment, he was executive vice president and chief technical officer for Bell Atlantic Mobile. Under his leadership, Bell Atlantic Mobile built one of the largest Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) networks in the country and launched the nation's first commercial Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) service.

Until recently, Lynch served as chairman of the Wireless Data Forum, (formerly the CDPD Forum) an organization dedicated to promoting the benefits of wireless data to end user communities, the telecommunications industry, the media, and the information technology industry. Under his guidance, the CDPD forum was reformed as the Wireless Data Forum, embracing all wireless data technologies and a wider variety of members. For this, Lynch was honored with the CTIA President's Award. In addition, Lynch is a senior member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and sits on the board of Sierra Wireless.

WCNC'02 Vice Chair
Gerard J. Flynn (Gerry)
Director Advanced Technology Strategy / Standards, Verizon Wireless

Gerry Flynn is responsible for Advanced Technology Strategy and Industry Standards at Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S.

He is deeply involved in the development of Third Generation Wireless representing Verizon Wireless in 3GPP2 Steering Committee, Vice Chair TR45 Committee of the Telecommunications Industry Association, member of the CDMA Development Group Executive Board and Operators Harmonization Group.

Flynn has been instrumental in the development of CDMA technology during the past ten years. While Technical Director of the Wireless Lab at NYNEX Science & Technology, he and his team conducted many of the early field trials of CDMA, which was the basis of IS-95. He is the founding Chair of the Telecommunications Industry Association's TR45.5 Subcommittee, which has developed the IS-95 family of CDMA Standards for Cellular and PCS.

Bart Arroyo, EC-DG13, Belgium
Vijay Bhargava, Victoria University, Canada
Qi Bi, Lucent, USA
Raouf Boutaba, Waterloo University, Canada
Chang Wen Chen, Univ. of Missouri, USA
K C Chua, NUS, Singapore
K-C Chen, NTU, Taiwan
Cengiz Evci, Alcatel, France
Yuguang Fang, University of Florida, USA
Gerhard Fettweis, T. Univ. Dresden, Germany
Jerry Gibson, SMU, USA
Yile Guo, NOKIA, USA
Martin Haardt, Siemens AG, Germany
Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University, USA
Shinichiro Haruyama, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Japan
Russel Hsing, Telcordia, USA
Dongkyun Kim, SNU, Korea
Jae Kim, Boeing, USA
James Kempf, SUN, USA
Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama University, Japan
Sastri Kota, Loral Space, USA
Jason Lin, NTCU, Taiwan
Kin Leung, AT&T, USA
Victor Leung, UBC, Canada
Paul Lemson, Cellestra, USA
Khaled Ben Letaiff, HKUST, China
Victor Li, Hong Kong University, China
Scott Miller, Texas A&M, USA
Nader Moayeri, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Greg Pollini, Network Design Tools, Inc., USA
Yunsang Park, Hughes Networks, USA
Steve Russell, Iowa State University, USA
Xuemin Shen, Waterloo University, Canada
Elvino Sousa, Toronto University, Canada
Cormac J. Sreenan, University of Cork, Ireland
Heinrich J. Stuettgen, NEC Labs, Germany
Timo Sukuvaara, VTT Labs, Finland
Zoltan Turanyi, Ericsson, Sweden
Reinaldo Valenzuela, Lucent, USA
Bernhard Walke, RWTH, Germany
Moe Win, AT&T, USA
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada

Chair:
Chih-Lin I, AT&T, USA

Members:
Len Cimini, AT&T, USA
Steve Deering, Cisco, USA
Jerry Gibson, SMU, USA
Rich Gitlin, Columbia, USA
Shuzo Kato, Mitsubishi, USA
Charlie Perkins, Nokia, USA
Elvino Sousa, Toronto University, Canada
Gordon Stuber, Georgia Tech, USA
Mehmet Unsoy, BT Wireless, UK