Tianran Zhou, Senior Principal Researcher, Huawei Technologies

Tianran Zhou is the Technical Director of Internet Standards at Huawei Datacom. He is also the Network Architect at Huawei Cloud, and Consultant at Huawei IT OPS.

In addition to the co-chair of OPS Area WG in IETF, he is active in many SDOs and Open Source projects. He is the TC3WG1 Leader in China Communications Standards Association. He was project leader in OpenDaylight, OPNFV, and ONOS. He is the member of IXP Alliance in China, and is a key contributor to the IXP deployment and standardization. He is the Chinese IETF Meetup SteerCo, promotes IETF and expedites IPv6 deployment in China.

He received the Ph.D. in Communication Systems from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and visited the University of California at Irvine from 2008 to 2010. Now he is the Invited Lecture on Internet in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.