Dr. Fumio Watanabe
CTO, UQ  Communications Inc.

Dr. Watanabe has  30 years of experience in research and development on satellite communication  systems and mobile communication systems including IMT-2000, IMT-Advanced and  WiMAX. He also has extensive activity in international standardization of  mobile systems in ITU-R TG8/1 and WP8F. He is CTO of UQ Communications Inc. He  is also the Executive Director & General Manager of Network Technology  Division of KDDI.

He received Piero  Fanti International Prize in 1989, the R & D Awards of Radio Systems  awarded by RCR in 1991, and the meritorious Awards on ITU activities from ITU-AJ in 2001, respectively. He is a chairman of Broadband Wireless Access  Committee in ARIB. He is a Board of Director of WiMAX Forum and a vice  president of WiMAX Forum Japan Office. He is Fellow of IEIEC.