Ray-Guang Cheng is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. He is also the Head of O-RAN Software Community (OSC) Asia Pacific Lab. His current research interests include AI-RAN and the Digital Twin Network (5G NR, WiFi, LEO Satellite).

The Broadband Multimedia Wireless (BMW) Lab at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) focuses on cutting-edge research in wireless communication technologies, particularly beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks.

Since 2017, our team has been actively involved in the OpenAirInterface (OAI) open-source project led by EURECOM, a prestigious French graduate school and research center in communication systems. Leveraging OAI software, we developed the world’s first open-source NB-IoT base station. In 2019, we further deepened this collaboration by co-founding the Joint NTUST-EURECOM Open5G Lab to focus on the development of open-source 5G base station software. Starting in 2021, our team expanded our efforts into the O-RAN Software Community (OSC)—an open-source initiative established through the collaboration of the O-RAN ALLIANCE and the Linux Foundation. We have been actively contributing to the software development of the O-DU LOW and O-DU HIGH layers, as well as the integration of the Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework and the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC).

Currently, the OSC maintains three Community Labs worldwide to facilitate integration testing for various sub-projects. East Coast and West Coast Labs (USA), established by AT&T and China Mobile, respectively. OSC Asia Pacific Lab: Established in Taiwan by our team in partnership with National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU). The OSC Asia Pacific Lab is presently responsible for the integration of OSC open-source software. Notably, our doctoral student, Fransiscus Bimo, a long-term contributor to the OSC community, was elected as the Project Technical Lead (PTL) for the OSC Integration and Testing (INT) Project in 2024.