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THURSDAY

January 22, 2026

Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:15 am

Welcome Address: 9:15 – 9:30: John Smee & Xinyu Zhang

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
• 10:30 - 11:00
  • Speaker: Hemanth Sampath, VP Engineering, Qualcomm
• 11:00 - 11:30 
  • Title:  
  • TBC
• 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

• Afternoon Session 1: 1:30 – 3:30, Network Infrastructure and related technology for Physical & Personal AI
• 1:30 - 1:50
  • Speaker: Tommaso Ballercia, Principal on AI RAN and Network Digital Twin, Nvidia
• 1:50 - 2:10
  • Speaker: Dinesh Bharadia, UCSD
• 2:10 - 2:40 
  • Speaker: Ganesh Harinath, CEO, Fiducia AI
• 2:40 - 3:00 
  • Speaker: Blyth Towal, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm

• 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
  • Panelist: Robert Heath, Charles Lee Powell Chair in Wireless Communication, UCSD
  • 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 Air Interface
• 4:00 - 4:20
  • Speaker: Harish Viswanathan, Head of Radio Systems Research Lab, Nokia Bell Labs
• 4:20 - 4:40
  • Speaker: Binoy Kurien, Assistant Group Leader, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• 4:40 - 5:00 
  • Speaker: Charlie Zhang, Senior Vice President, Samsung
• 5:00 - 5:20
  • Speaker: TBC
• 5:30 - 6:00
  • Panel - From Antenna to Application: Designing the Next Air Interface
  • Panelist: Charlie Zhang, Senior Vice President, Samsung
  • Panelist: Binoy Kurien, Assistant Group Leader, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Panelist: Harish Viswanathan, Head of Radio Systems Research Lab, Nokia Bell Labs
  • Panelist: TBC
  • 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

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
  • TBC

• ​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: Tzu-Chien Hsueh, Professor, UCSD
  • 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