Oguz Sunay is Chief Architect for the Network and Edge Group (NEX)at Intel, which he joined as part of Intel's acquisition of the OpenNetworking Foundation (ONF) engineering team. While at ONF, he wasVice President for Research & Development, where led allmobile-related projects. Before joining ONF, Sunay was the CTO atArgela-USA, where he was the innovator of a Programmable Radio AccessNetwork Architecture (ProgRAN) for 5G that enabled the world's firstdynamically programmable RAN slicing solution. He has also held priorindustry positions at Nokia Research Center and Bell Laboratories, where he focused on 3G and 4G end-to-end systems architectures andparticipated and chaired various standardization activities. Sunay hasalso spent over 10 years in academia, as a Professor of Electrical andComputer Engineering. He holds many U.S. and European patents onvarious aspects of 3G, 4G, and 5G, and has authored numerous journaland conference publications. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. fromQueen's University, Canada, and his B.Sc.Hon. from METU, Turkey.
