Havish Koorapaty (Havish.Koorapaty@ericsson.com) has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He has almost 30 years of experience with Ericsson in wireless communications systems spanning 2G to 6G and over 250 technical papers and patents. He was the recipient of the Ericsson Inventor of the Year award in 2016. Havish has participated in standardization efforts in the 3GPP, ATIS, TIA, IEEE, ETSI and O-RAN standardization bodies. He was the recipient of the 3GPP Excellence Award in 2015. Havish served as a vice-chairman in 3GPP RAN1 and as a co-chair for the O-RAN next Generation Research Group (nGRG). He is currently Vice President for standards and industry initiatives in the Americas at Ericsson. He is also a co-chair of the Steering Group in the Next G Alliance as well as a co-chair of the ATIS Open RAN Committee.