Stephen Wang received his Executive MBA, PhD and MSc degrees from the University of Cambridge, the University of Bristol, and the University of Warwick, respectively. He served different roles from engineer to director in China Telecom, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Toshiba Research Europe, Ocado Technology and Huawei R&DUK. He oversights digital innovations strategy, partnerships, and steers R&D programmes in 5G, 6G, Human Machine Interface, AI and Robotics, Digital Twin and industrial 4.0. He is the Managing Director of VIAVI Marconi Labs in VIAVI Solutions, responsible of
research, innovation, Standards, and Research2Product transfer, via technical and business planning, collaboration, and early investment activities. He interacts with external consultants to understand the ecosystem value and steer technology strategy and early investment. He is a visiting professor in King’s College London, a Strategy Advisory Board Member in 5G/6G Innovation centre in Surrey, also was an industrial advisory board member in Imperial College London. He is an inventor/co-inventor of 30+ patents. He served as a PhD co-supervisor in the University of Bristol, and Imperial College in the past decade. He is a regular author and a reviewer of IEEE journals, guest editor, and general co-chair. He is a UK Chartered engineer, Fellow of IET and a Senior Member of IEEE.