Takki YuVice President, Ph.D Head of Infra Tech Office Network CTO at SKSpeaker
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Dr. Takki Yu is a Vice President of the Infra Tech Office at SK Telecom while leading the R&D on E2E mobile communication infra technologies including Radio Access, Core,Transport, Device, Location, and Network AI. His primary interests are focused on advance d mobile communications including 5G and Beyond 5G(6G) systems, network virtualization & cloud, location quantum security, and network AI In particular, he has been leading the 5G technology development with a successful world’s first 5Gcommercialization in Korea, along with Beyond 5G and 6G technology evolution. And, he has served as a board director of NGMN Alli ance a nd TSC member of O RANAlliance since 2019 Accordingly, he has been elected chair of Open RAN Industry Alliance (ORIA ) since ORIA has established August, 2023. Prior to joining SK Telecom, Dr. Yu had extensive experience as a senior engineer in Samsung Electronics and a research scholar at Stanford University, working on development of LTE/IMT Advanced systems. He holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Yonsei University in Korea, and he is the author or a coauthor of more than 10 0 patent filings and more than 2 0 research papers.