Hong-Yon Lach

In charge of improving scientific and business impacts of applied research on social networking, visual communications, semantic processing, internet of things, etc
- Enhance competency, recognition and publication
- Create strategic collaboration opportunities internally and externally
- Formulate research strategies
- Facilitate innovation

• Founded Motorola’s first comprehensive IP networking research lab, capable of technological research, software prototyping and testbed evaluation

• Coached staff and developed core expertise; led team in several organisational changes to re-align with corporate directives

• Enabled sustainable research pipeline via 3 PhD theses and 10 external collaborative projects, with effective internalisation of their results

• Managed and met annual department budget in USD and EUR, 10-15% of which sought and won from external funding

• Boosted organisational impact via technology commercialisation, as only department to win 3 business-sponsored accelerator projects, adding totally 2.14M USD for technology implementation, validation and transfer

• 100% on-time and high-quality deliverables to stakeholders, leading to customer satisfaction and appreciation

• Highly effective leadership, communication, motivational and inspirational skills leading to recognition as most effective manager by subordinates in annual MYSAYMOTO surveys

• Pioneered and led technologies and software development for IP-based fixed-mobile convergence of networking across public, enterprise and home networks (including Ethernet, WLAN, cellular 2/3/4G, WiMAX, and DVB)
- IP node and network mobility in mixed IPv4-IPv6 environment for multimode mobile devices and moving vehicular networks
- IP integrated architecture with AAA, mobility and QoS
- IP mobile multicast and multiparty transport overlay
- Cross-layer functional co-operation to optimise quality of user experience
- IP gateway for connection-oriented wireless access
- Multi-session multimedia player for mobile internet devices

• Built substantial intellectual-property portfolio (19 patents granted and 22 pending) and software assets

• Pioneered and led technologies and software development for semantic web and mobile intelligent agents

• Led diverse teams in fulfilment of corporate productivity, quality and bottom-line objectives, leading to better co-ordinated and streamlined IP networking research programs and roadmaps across all concerned Motorola Labs teams in Paris, Schaumburg, Marlborough, Tokyo and Sydney

• Influenced strategies and decisions in CTO reviews, leading to uninterrupted approval and support of programs and projects

• Adapted technologies to engage business organisations
- Public safety: advanced IP-based public-safety networking architecture supporting security, mobility, multicast, wireless TCP and VPN for mobile nodes and moving networks
- Mobile device: IP node and network mobility software for multimode devices in mixed IPv4-IPv6 environment
- Network: FMIPv6, PMIPv6 and network-assisted mobility management for IP mobility between WiMAX and WiFi

• Drove company strategies in standards (FIPA, IETF, ETSI MESA and IEEE 802.21)

• Promoted technologies and company profile in demo events: Motorola annual tech fairs, 3GSM (2006), FT/Orange Tech Fair (2006), FMCA (2008)

• Engaged customers with research presentations, leading to Motorola commercial and research collaborations with FT, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI

• Pioneered Systems Beyond-3G vision in EU 5th and 6th Framework Programmes for Research and Development, giving Motorola strong position to influence related activities and projects sponsored by EU

• Motivated research community with release of LIVSIX (2004) as first open-source IPv6/MIPv6/NEMOv6 stack (developed in Linux)

• Elected since 2005 to SABA (Science Advisory Board Associate), representing top 1.5% of Motorola technical community

• Distinguished Innovator (10 patents granted and 3 pending) since 2008

• Developed OSI stack and X.25 driver to support X.400

• Contributed to revisions of OSI ES-IS and Transport Class 4 standards

• Led in ETSI HIPERLAN/1 (first ad-hoc WLAN) standardisation as MAC/CAC architect and editor, leading to acceptance of proposed EY-NPMA protocol

• Golden Apple Special Achievement Award in 1990