Technical Steering Committee

Pawel Pawlak is a Senior Product Manager at TuxCare for Endless Lifecycle Support products for Linux distributions, programming languages and frameworks. Actively contributes to ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform) from the early beginning of this LFN project. For the last 5 years Pawel has led the ONAP Security Subcommittee focusing on building awareness among open source community on security and incorporating best practices. For the last 2 years Pawel has also been leading ONAP TSC.

Pawel previously worked at F5 and Incognito as Product Manager for software solutions. Prior to that Pawel gained experience in the telco industry for 18 years at Orange/TPSA where he was responsible for testing and deploying aggregation and core networks for triple play services, dealing with building skill centers for BRAS/BNG, providing internal professional services in IP and transport domains and most recently creating strategy for operator’s IT and network operations convergence. Pawel received his Master of Science in Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology. He also holds Executive Master of Business Administration at Kozminski University.

N. K. Shankaranarayanan (Shankar) is an Affiliate Research Scientist with Rutgers WINLAB, with research interests covering wireless networks and technologies, wireless standards and open-source solutions. Prior to this, he worked at AT&T Labs Research and STL Access Solutions. His work has spanned diverse areas including network automation solutions, wireless field trials, service and network quality management, radio propagation, full-duplex wireless, fixed wireless systems, and optical fiber/cable systems. He led the development and production deployment of the first cloud-based 5G SON solution in AT&T. He serves on the ONAP TSC and LFN TAC Committees, and has served on the WiMAX Forum Board of Directors. Shankar has 95+ patents in his name and 50+ research publications. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, all in Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Wang currently works as a research engineer at China Telecom Research Institute (Beijing). The research & development group focuses on the next generation network reconstruction of China Telecom, which is named the target of CTNet2025 whitepaper. Based on SDN/NFV technology, lots of outputs have been achieved by the team in the architecture, orchestration and full-stack solutions of 5GC, SD-WAN and so on.

Before Joining in China Telecom, he concentrated on his academic research at universities in the UK, where he received an M.Sc. by Research degree in telecommunications and a Ph.D. degree in computing (networks and communications). His research interests are around modeling and optimization of complex communication networks. Multiple emerging areas of communication networks have been touched, like 5G and beyond networks, large scale heterogeneous WSNs and IoT. Several academic papers had been published in academic conferences and journals including a top impact factor journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He also has rich experience in software development in the industry both in the UK and China. Based on the above experience in academics and industry, he has the potential to make more contributions to the next generation network reconstruction of China Telecom, as well as the development of ONAP.

Andreas is an initial member of the ONAP project within Deutsche Telekom.

With more than 20 year experience as OSS Software/System Developer and Architect at Nokia/NSN,
He joined Deutsche Telekom 6 years ago as Senior Architect working in the “OSS Architecture & Innovation”
group of the “Technology Architecture & Innovation” department.

Located in Bonn, he is leading DT’s ONAP Labs, in which they are hosting multiple ONAP instances used within Proof of Concept projects as well as for automated installation and testing.

This year DT founded a development project, which focusses to create a DT Network Automation platform using ONAP as basis. Within this project Andreas serves as the lead system architect.

Guanyu Zhu is a senior open source engineer in Huawei. She has been working in the UUI project for two years, and actively participated in various use cases, including intent-based networking, and yang model automation. nGuanyu has been contributing in several open source projects within LF. She is the TSC of Anuket and Akraino as well. She has rich experience in testing, certification, CI/CD and Container-based servers and now focus on cloud native field.

Keguang He has more than ten years of working experience in the field of telecommunication, and my main efforts are in NFV and SDN technology and solutions, specifically in the E2E scenarios and Intent network solutions.

He has been an active member of the ONAP community since 2019, participating mainly in E2E Network Slicing use case, as well as the Test Topology Auto Design, general intent model and general intent interface use cases. He has contributed more than 20K lines of code to ONAP.

As the PTL of the ONAP UUI project, he is also responsible for the daily maintenance of UUI, and ensures that the operation of the UUI project meets the requirements of the ONAP community and contributes to the collaboration and alignment between ONAP and other relevant open source communities and standards organizations.