Fran O’Brien is the Technology Director of the Wireless Standards and Intellectual Property Department at Alcatel-Lucent. His Department is responsible for the development of global standards, industry relations, global spectrum policy, and the development of wireless secure communications and fraud analysis algorithms. The Department is active in standards bodies throughout the world including the ITU, 3GPP, 3GPP2, TIA, ETSI, ATIS, IEEE, IETF, OMA, and CEPT. In addition the Department supports various Industry fora such as the CTIA, CDG, UMTS Forum, 3G Americas, IA450, GSMA, WiMAX Forum and the WWRF. Dr. O’Brien serves on the OMA Board of Directors and the IEEE-SA Board of Governors. He was recently appointed to the IEEE Wireless Communications Engineering Technologies (WCET) Advisory Board. He has also served on the IPSphere Board for Lucent Technologies.

Dr. O’Brien has held various leadership positions including Vice-Chair of TIA TR45.5, Co-Chair of TIA TR45.5 IMT-2000 Coordination Ad-hoc and Treasurer WCNC’02. He was active in the development of the IMT-2000 standards and in the creation of 3GPP2.

Dr. O’Brien received both his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Physics from Boston University and his B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.