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THURSDAY

January 22, 2026

Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:15 am

Welcome Address: 9:15 – 9:30:

•  Albert P. Pisano, Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering
• John Smee, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm
• Xinyu Zhang, Director, Center for Wireless Communications

Keynote Speaker: 9:30 – 10:00

• Mischa Dohler, VP Emerging Technologies, Ericsson
• Title: "Future of telecom for physical and personal AI"

Morning Session: Physical & Personal AI - Technology and Use Cases

• 10:00 – 10:30 
  • Speaker: Michael Yip, UC San Diego, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • "Personal and Physical AI in the 6G Era Empowering the Next Wave of User Experiences"
• 10:30 - 11:00
  • Speaker: Hemanth Sampath, Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm
  • "Personal AI and human-centric design"
• 11:00 - 11:30 
  • Speaker: Chad Sweet, CEO, Modal AI
  • "Embodied Intelligence at the Edge: Why Physical AI Is a Systems Problem"
• 11:30 - 12:00: Panel - Physical & Personal AI - Technology and Use Cases​​​​​
  • Panelist: Mischa Dohler, VP Emerging Technologies, Ericsson​​​​​
  • Panelist: Michael Yip, Professor, UCSD
  • Panelist: Hemanth Sampath, Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm
  • Panelist: Xinyu Zhang, Director, Center for Wireless Communications
  • Moderator: Sujit Dey, Professor, UCSD

Lunch: 12:00 – 1:00 

1:00 - 1:30 Keynote Speaker: John Smee, SVP Engineering, Qualcomm "MERGING WORLDS: How 6G unifies connectivity, compute and AI"

• Afternoon Session 1:30 – 3:30, Network Infrastructure and related technology for Physical & Personal AI
• 1:30 - 2:00
  • Speaker: Dinesh Bharadia, Professor, UCSD
  • "EdgeRIC: Enabling Real-Time EdgeAI for Intelligent Control and Mission-Critical Applications in NextG Networks​"
• 2:00 - 2:30 
  • Speaker: Ganesh Harinath, CEO, Fiducia AI
  • "6G as an Experience Platform: Interactive Fan and Brand Engagement Across Billions of Devices"
• 2:30 - 3:00 
  • Speaker: Blythe Towal, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm
  • "Scaling Physical AI to Reasoning: From Silicon to Skills"
     
• 3:00 - 3:30: Panel - Network Infrastructure and related technology for Physical & Personal AI
  • Panelist: Fatih Porikli, Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm​​​​
  • Panelist: Devaki Chandramouli, Head of NA Standards & Bell Labs Fellow, Nokia 
  • Panelist: Chad Sweet, CEO, Modal AI
  • Moderator: Rajat Prakash, Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm

Break: 3:30 – 4:00

• Afternoon Session 2: 4:00 – 6:00, From Antenna to Application: Designing the Next-Generation Air Interface
• 4:00 - 4:30
  • Speaker: Harish Viswanathan, Head of Radio Systems Research Lab, Nokia Bell Labs
  • "Networks for the AI Era"
• 4:30 - 5:00
  • Speaker: Binoy Kurien, Assistant Group Leader, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • "Adaptive Signal Processing for Direct Path"
• 5:00 - 5:30 
  • Speaker: YoungHan Nam, Senior Director, Samsung
  • "6G – Shaping the Future of Wireless in the AI Era"
• 5:30 - 6:00
  • Panel - From Antenna to Application: Designing the Next Air Interface
  • Panelist: YoungHan Nam, Sr. Director, Samsung
  • Panelist: Binoy Kurien, Assistant Group Leader, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Panelist: Harish Viswanathan, Head of Radio Systems Research Lab, Nokia Bell Labs
  • Panelist: Krishna Narayanan, Sanchez chair professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
  • Moderator: Jing Jiang, Senior Director, Technology, Qualcomm

Social Hour: 6:00 – 7:30

• Drinks and hors d'oeuvres

End of Day One: 7:30
 

FRIDAY

January 23, 2026

Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:30 am

Keynote Speaker: 9:30 – 10:00 

• Speaker: Gabriel Rebeiz, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
• "To AI or not to AI: That is the Question​"

Morning Session: Circuits

• 10:00 - 10:30
  • Speaker: Luke Urban, Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer, Magnolia
  • Title "An ML-Enabled SerDes: Achieving Sub-Data Rate High-Order PAM Reconstruction Under Extreme Jitter and Relaxed Clocking"

• 10:30 - 11:00 ​​​​​​
  • Speaker: Chris Mangelsdorf, Analog Devices Fellow and Independent Consultant
  • Title "The Emperor's New Design Tools"

• 11:00 - 11:30
  • Speaker- Prasad Gudem, Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD
  • Title "Lessons from Applying AI to Analog Circuits: Education, Modeling, and Discovery/Invention"

• ​11:30 - 12:00 Panel discussion – AI For Circuit Design: Helpful or Hypeful?​​​​​​
  • Panelist: Luke Urban, Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer, Magnolia
  • Panelist: Prasad Gudem, Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD
  • Panelist: Chris Mangelsdorf, Independent Consultant​​​​​​
  • Panelist: Kamal Sahota, Senior Vice President, Engineering, RF Integrated Circuit Design Team, Qualcomm
  • Moderator: Ian Galton, Professor, UCSD

Lunch: 12:00 – 1:00 

Poster Sessions and Demos: 1:00 –3:00 

• Location: Franklin Antonio Hall 2301, in the Center for Wireless Communications Collaboratory

End of Day Two