
Vice President of Technology
Qualcomm
Alex Tu is Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm. He is leading the global Snapdragon chipset power systems engineering team. In his role, Alex is responsible in overseeing Qualcomm's chipset power consumption planning, execution and roadmap covering handset, compute, automotive, AR/VR, IOT and wearable products.
Alex joined Qualcomm as a senior systems engineer in 1998. During his 26-years tenure at Qualcomm, Alex has taken on various lead roles in modem systems, chipset power, chipset architecture and project engineering. Alex started working on chipset power since 2005, helped lead and commercialize 20+ Qualcomm chipset products with world-class low power consumption.
Alex has a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He holds 169 globally granted patents in the field of wireless communication, power consumption and semiconductor ASIC.