Will Lightfoot is the Sr. Director of Certification Program Compliance at CTIA. As a key member of the CTIA Certification Program staff, he is responsible for managing CTIA’s relationships with its authorized Certification testing laboratories and serving as the technical expert for the CTIA Certification Program. Lightfoot has been with CTIA since 2002, and has helped to grow the certification programs global network of test labs from four in 2002 to over a hundred worldwide. Lightfoot received his Bachelor of Arts from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland Virginia.

Ronald Borsato is a Principal Architect at Spirent and is the Co-Chair of the CTIA’s OTA Working Group. As a recognized industry leader in the development of radiated sensitivity testing, Borsato has contributed to the CTIA SISO and MIMO OTA Test Plans and has acted as a Subject Matter Expert for numerous antenna lab audits. Borsato actively participates in 3GPP on LTE and OTA matters. Borsato received his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.

In 2012, Dr. Jiang Xiao joined ETS-Lindgren as a RF supervisor. Now he is in charge of OTA wireless system design, especially MIMO OTA. He is also doing the EMC and microwave chamber, EMC/antenna test system design for ETS-Lindgren, China market. He received his Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2006.  He has published more than 10 papers in the IEEE Transactions on EMC and in international conferences proceedings.

Xudong An is working for CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology), where he is the Vice-Director in OTA & LBS Division of CTTL-terminals, supervising the 5G & LBS Related work. He received the M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Beihang University. He is active in standards development, and is involved in the working on LTE OTA, MIMO-OTA, LBS, etc. Mr. An participates in 3GPP RAN Work Group 4 and CCSA TC9 as senior delegate leading Laptop OTA, LTE OTA. He is also the rapporteur of 3GPP TR37.902. His research interests focus on signal processing and MIMO wireless systems, location based technology, LTE-Advanced and 5G.

Yulung Tang received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2004. During his studies in school, he conducted research work on the MMIC development for radio astronomy applications, as well as mmW point-to-point communication systems. He joined TriQuint Semiconductor in 2005 as a design engineer, working on the MMIC development for wireless communication systems. Since 2008, he has been with ETS-Lindgren and working on RF design of the anechoic chamber and antenna measurement system. His interest of research is focused on RF circuit and system design for radio astronomy and electromagnetic wave measurement.

Alfonso Rodriguez-Herrera is a product manager for MIMO OTA and Virtual Drive Testing for Spirent. For the past 16 years, he has been involved in MIMO propagation measurement, modeling, simulation, and emulation, and the impact of MIMO propagation on wireless modem performance and system level capacity for cdma, WCDMA, LTE, Wi-Fi, among other air interfaces. He holds a BSEE from the Morelia Institute of Technology, and an MSEE from the University of Texas at Arlington. Alfonso holds five patents related to wireless protocols and MIMO OTA testing procedures.