Walid Ali-Ahmad

Walid Ali-Ahmad is currently Vice President of RF Systems engineering at Samsung
Electronics with focus on 5G NR platform SOC solution development for cellular User
Equipment. He previously worked as RF/Analog Systems Engineering Lead at Facebook (2018-
2019), and as VP of Technology in QCT at QUALCOMM Inc (2014-2017) with focus on
architecture and RF systems design of advanced RF Front-Ends and transceiver systems. He
also worked at UC San Diego where he was an adjunct professor (2016-18), and at Mediatek
Inc. in Singapore where he was Senior Director of Technology (2010-2014) and led RF systems
design of low-cost cellular integrated transceivers. He also was a principal member of Technical
staff at Maxim Integrated products (1997-2004), and led the systems development of the first
low-cost low-power WCDMA direct-conversion transceiver IC in SiGe BiCMOS. He holds
several patents in the area of RF Front-Ends, and has published many articles and given many
talks in the area of RF systems design for cellular and millimeter-wave radio systems. He is a
senior IEEE member and an IEEE distinguished microwave lecturer. He has been part of the
IEEE RFIC conference technical program and steering committees since 2004; he served as
the general chair of RFIC 2018 conference, and currently, he is serving as the RFIC’2022
executive committee chair. Walid received his Masters and PhD  degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and his Bachelor of Engineering
degree with Distinction from the American University of Beirut.