TFS People

SDG TeraFlowSDN is structured in several groups, including a Leadership Group, a Technical Steering Committee, Module Development Groups and Task Forces.

Leadership Group (LG)

The TFS Leadership Group is in charge of setting and sharing the project vision

Ricard Vilalta (CTTC)

Ricard Vilalta (CTTC)

TFS Chair

Ricard is a senior researcher in the Optical Networks and Systems Department at CTTC. He is an active contributor in several standardization bodies such as ONF (OTCC), ETSI (NFV, ZSM), and IETF (CCAMP, TEAS). He is also a member of the technical steering team of Open Transport Configuration & Control in ONF. He is leading open source contributions and features in ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) with special focus on 5G technologies. He has been involved in several international, EU, national and industrial research projects. He lead 5GTANGO impact activities (WP leader), INSPIRE‐5Gplus experimental activities (WP leader), and participated in several 5GPPP WG. Letelly, he is the Project Coordinator of 5GPPP TeraFlow project

Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor)

Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor)

TFS Vice-Chair

Håkon is a Senior Research Scientist at Telenor Research, where he has been working with telecom network and service management, orchestration and control, including systems integration and distributed systems frameworks, architectures and middleware. Over the last years his activities have addressed inter-provider network services and business models, Internet evolution, lately including SDN, NFV and 5G ecosystems. This includes curiosity to discover and analyse dependencies between technical architecture, business architecture and multi-provider ecosystem platforms. He has participated in several EU projects, often in leading positions, and he is currently engaged with the European 5G PPP and SNS JU, and member of the 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA) Governing Board and the NetworldEurope Steering Board

Luis Miguel Contreras (Telefónica)

Luis Miguel Contreras (Telefónica)

TFS Vice-Chair

Lluis Miguel has been working at Telefónica since August 2011, where he focuses on scalable networks and their interaction with cloud and distributed service. Previously, he joined the network planning department of Orange Spain in 2006. He began his career in 1997 at Alcatel Spain, holding several positions in R&D, standardization, product development, and customer engineering. In parallel, between 2002 and 2010, he served as an adjunct lecturer at the Telematics Department of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in Telematics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2021), an M.Sc. in Telematics jointly from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2010), and an M.Sc. in Telecommunications from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1997). He is an active contributor to several standardization bodies, including ETSI, IETF, and O-RAN.

Technical Steering Committee (TSC)

The TFS Technical Steering Committee is in charge of driving TeraFlowSDN technical ativities

Lluís Gifre (CTTC)

Lluís Gifre (CTTC)

TSC Chair

Lluís is a researcher in the Packet-Optical Networks and Services (PONS) research unit, part of the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC). He is the current chair of the TSC of ETSI TeraFlowSDN and an IEEE Senior Member. He participated in 9 EC/nationally-funded projects and 1 industrial collaboration. He is the lead inventor of 1 patent, and he has co-authored more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed and indexed journals and recognized international conferences. His research interests include cloud-based platforms in support of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), network slicing, and orchestration of 5G/6G infrastructures."

Georgios P. Katsikas (Ubitech)

Georgios P. Katsikas (Ubitech)

TSC Member

Georgios is a Technical Manager at UBITECH’s Network Softwarization and IoT (NSIT) group, focusing on programmable cloud-native networked systems. His main interests span across Computer Networks and Operating Systems with a focus on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). In his doctoral thesis, Georgios introduced how to realize software-based NFV service chains at the emerging and utterly challenging link speeds at 100 Gbps using commodity hardware, while obliterating latency. His latest research is published at top systems conferences (NSDI, CoNEXT) and journals (ACM TOCS) and featured in the ACM Technews, PHYS.ORG, ECN, KTH, and APNIC. Georgios has been actively contributing to cutting edge networking frameworks, such as DPDK, ONOS, and the Click modular router, while also actively impacting relevant ETSI software development groups, such as ETSI TFS and ETSI OSL.

Pablo Armingol Robles (Telefónica)

Pablo Armingol Robles (Telefónica)

TSC Member

Pablo He develops his professional career at Telefónica Innovación Digital. Specialized in SDN deployments and multilayer network slicing for transport networks, he has co-authored multiple papers in leading industry journals (such as JOCN and IEEE) focusing on AI-driven automation and multilayer network slicing. Additionally, he actively participates in both national and European research project He received his Telematic Engineering degree and a Master in Cybersecurity from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Telematics Engineering.

Carlos Natalino da Silva (Chalmers University of Technology)

Carlos Natalino da Silva (Chalmers University of Technology)

TSC Member

Carlos Natalino is a Researcher with the Optical Networks Unit, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. His research focuses on network automation and on the challenges and opportunities for application of machine learning in the network automation context. In particular, over the past years, he has been researching how to leverage machine learning for optical network design and operation, in problems such as resource efficiency (e.g., spectrum) and physical layer security. Carlos has been involved in several national and international projects funded by research bodies in EU and Brazil. He is an IEEE and Optica member. Carlos is an educator with 9 years of experience in teaching programming and networking courses to undergraduate programs. He received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil, in 2016. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, 6 of which are proof-of-concept demonstrators.

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