Hui DENG obtained his doctor degree at Tsinghua University in 2002. Before 2007, he was the chief researcher in Hitachi (China) R&D Cooperation. He joined the China Mobile Research since 2007 and acted as CTO of network department. He was the co-chair of IETF MIF WG, the board of director of WBA and OPNFV, also 1st board of chairman of OPEN-O open source project which later evolve into ONAP. Hui DENG joined Huawei in 2016. He has been elected as the vice chairman of ETSI NFV ISG since 2019.