Mehmet Toy received his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; and B.S and M.S in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently an Associate Fellow in Verizon Communications Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ and involved in the architecture, implementation, testing, APIs, orchestration, analytics, and standards of virtual networks and services, Intent-based Networking, 5G/Network Slicing, and Multi-Access Edge Computing. Dr. Toy is also a Distinguished Fellow of MEF, leading standard projects involved in definition of Edge Computing Services, Service Elasticity APIs, and Service Topology.Prior to joining Verizon, he held individual contributor and management positions at various levels in start-ups and well-known companies as well as tenure-track Associate and Adjunct Professor at universities in USA and Turkey. He has served in IEEE-USA, IEEE1588 Conformity Alliance, 3GPP2, ITU-T, IETF, ETSI, CNTT, ONAP, MEF, IEEE Communications Magazine, and IEEE Network Magazine at various capacities for more than three decades, including chairing ITU-T FGNET2030 Architecture Group, chairing IEEE ComSoc Cable Networks and Services Committee, and serving in the Open Cloud Connect (OCC) Forum Board. Dr. Toy delivered multiple key-note speeches in conferences; and has authored seven books, an IEEE video tutorial, four IETF RFCs, nineteen IETF drafts, an ETSI NFV standard, three MEF standards (one in progress), one IEEE standard, and numerous articles and standards contributions. He holds seventeen patents issued or pending. For his contributions, he has received multiple outstanding contributor, top contributor, innovator, and leadership awards from Bell Labs, Comcast, Verizon, IEEE-USA, Open Cloud Connect Forum (OCC), and MEF.
