Siva Veerepalli is currently Vice President of Engineering in the Automotive Business Unit at Qualcomm. Siva heads up the Automotive Telematics Engineering organization responsible for providing wireless solutions for the connected car. His team, including systems, software, chipset, hardware platform and test engineering, is responsible for the commercialization of telematics hardware and software including Cellular, WLAN and V2X connectivity solutions. Prior to joining the automotive team in 2017, he was part of the modem systems team in the mobile organization in various systems and project engineering roles. During his time with Qualcomm, he contributed to the evolution of wireless data services, broadcast services, V2X etc and holds over 70 US patents with a few more pending.  Siva joined Qualcomm in 1996 as a Systems Engineer in the Globalstar Satellite project, after graduating from Rutgers University with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering.