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, IEEE 1588 Conformity Alliance, 3GPP2, ITU-T, IE
