EC Member Profiles
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Ma YanPosition: Executive Committee Member Organization: China Education and Research Network (CERNET) Serving until: March 2010 |
Professor Ma Yan has served as an Executive Council member of APNIC since 2003. He has also been an Executive Committee member of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) since 1994, building the largest IP network for the education and academic community in China. Recently, Ma Yan has been actively involved in the design and implementation of CNGI/CERNET2, the IPv6-based next generation CERNET. He is the co-supervisor of CERNET NIC, dealing with IP address allocation/assignment and domain name registration and has also been in charge of the operation of the North China regional network of CERNET, which connects universities in Beijing, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia.
Ma Yan is deputy director of the Network Information Center of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and is responsible for the planning, construction, and operation of the BUPT campus computer network. He has a great deal of experience in IP addressing and technical planning as a campus network administrator.
Ma Yan is also a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of BUPT and has led several national key technology research projects, including network management, mobile and wireless network, IPv6, multimedia transmission, and distance learning. He has been teaching and doing research in the computer networking and telecommunications field since 1982 and has consulted with Telcos in China for many years.
He is also very active in Internet-related international events. During 2000-2001, he convened and successfully led the APEC TEL HRDSG (Human Resource Development Steering Group).