Biography:

Wael Guibene is Lead IoT Standardization Engineer at Samsung Research America. Wael is currently serving as IoT WG co-Chair for the WBA. Prior to joining SRA, Wael worked for Charter Communications where he was a Principal Engineer in charge of the standardization and PoCs for IoT (LoRaWAN and private-LTE/CBRS). While at Charter, Wael was serving as the Marketing Committee Chair at the LoRa Alliance as well as leading TFs and WGs for both Marketing and Technical committees as well as the IoT Work Group co-Chair at the WBA.Prior to Charter, Wael worked for Amazon Lab126 where he was the Wireless Lead Architect for Amazon Echo 4 and Amazon Echo Show 10. Prior to that, Wael worked for Intel both in the US and Ireland where he helped define the E2E Intel IoT Platform and drive R&D engagements for smart cities and I-IoT PoCs. Prior to that, Wael worked for the core LoRa/LoRaWAN team at Semtech and supported the launch of the LoRa Alliance.

Wael received the 2020 LoRa Alliance Leadership Award and the LoRa Alliance Corporate Award and the WBA 2020 Leadership Award.

Wael holds a PhD in Electronics and Communications from TELECOM ParisTech (France), MSc in EE from Univ. Paris Descartes (France) and MEng in Telecommunications from ENIT (Tunisia) and was elevated to SM-IEEE in 2020. Wael published 40+ IEEE/ACM conference and journal papers and filed 25+ patents on various wireless technologies and IoT applications.