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Zhang is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego. Before joining UC San Diego, he was an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2012 to 2017. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2012. He is the recipient of ACM MobiCom Best Paper Award (2011), NSF CAREER award (2014), and Google Research Award (2017).  

Zhang’s research focuses on wireless networking and mobile computing, more specifically on wireless network architectures that can achieve orders of magnitude performance gain over conventional networks, and computational sensing mechanisms that reuse wireless signals to sense ambient activities with near-vision precision. His research builds on an experimental foundation and is often validated through end-to-end system implementation. His team is the first to address the system-level challenges in realizing millimeter-wave networking, which promises to realize wire-speed connectivity anywhere, anytime. He also designed physical-layer informed protocols that can eliminate the performance glitches in mobile applications, such as mobile Web, video streaming, and virtual reality. 

In addition, Zhang’s research augments commodity mobile devices with ambient intelligence, so that they can leverage ambient signals to track human/object locations and activities at near-vision precision. The wireless sensing modalities he developed provide emerging Internet of Things applications with certain enabling mechanisms, such as centimeter-precision indoor localization for smartphones, 3D orientation and position tracking for batteryless objects, etc.

John Smee is Senior Vice President of Engineering and Global Head of Wireless Research at Qualcomm, where he oversees all 5G/6G and Wi-Fi R&D projects including systems design, standards contributions, and advanced radio, hardware, and software research testbeds and technology trials with industry partners. He joined Qualcomm in 2000, holds over 200 U.S. Patents, and has focused on the innovation and commercial launches of wireless communications across 5G NR, 4G LTE, 3G CDMA, and IEEE 802.11. He also leads Qualcomm’s companywide academic collaboration program across AI, augmented/virtual reality, automotive, IOT, security, semiconductor, and wireless. John was chosen to participate in the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering program and served on the National Academy of Medicine Committee on Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and holds an M.A. from Princeton and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. from Queen's University. 

Dinesh Bharadia received his Ph.D. in 2016 from Stanford University, where he was advised by Professor Sachin Katti. He is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT working with Professors Dina Katabi and Mohammad Alizadeh. In his dissertation, Bharadia presented a prototype of a radio that invalidated a long held assumption in wireless research that radios cannot transmit and receive at the same time on the same frequency. In recognition of his work, Bharadia was named a Marconi Young Scholar for outstanding wireless research and was awarded the Michael Dukakis Leadership award. He was also named as one of the top 35 Innovators under 35 in the world by MIT Technology Review in 2016. Bharadia is also a recipient of the Sarah and Thomas Kailath Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

From 2013 to 2015, Bharadia was a Principal Scientist for Kumu Networks, where he worked to commercialize his research on full-duplex radios, building a product that underwent successful field trials at Tier 1 network providers worldwide like Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom. This product is currently under deployment. His research interests include advancing the theory and design of modern wireless communication systems, wireless imaging, sensor networks and data-center networks. Bharadia received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2010, where he received the gold medal for graduating at the top of his class. His research has been published at top conferences such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom and has been cited over 2,000 times. At UC San Diego, he will be teaching core courses in wireless communication, IoT networks, and networked systems building. 

Bharadia's research aims to innovate fundamental ideas in communication theory and translate them to build practical wireless communication systems, low power wireless communication system (IoT), wireless imaging/sensing and wireless networks. This involves understanding hardware/system challenges in achieving the above fundamental ideas and then designing algorithms to overcome the hardware limitation in translating the ideas to the practical systems. Bharadia has built systems for first full duplex radios (which was considered impossible), indoor navigation using standard WiFi, wireless virtual reality headsets, human-motion tracking systems using wireless signals, and battery-less ECG wireless sensors.

Devaki is a Bell Labs Fellow and Head of North American Standardization at Nokia. Her current focus is on leading industry engagements, 6G System architecture research, and standardization. She is also the rapporteur and lead for 5G System architecture specification in 3GPP. She also served as a rapporteur for many key work items related to private networks, industrial 5G, timing resiliency, and URLLC enhancements, XR services in 3GPP SA2.

As Vice President of Technology for Qualcomm’s Engineering Services Group (ESG), Kausik Ray Chaudhuri leads systems engineering activities for developing and deploying the latest network technologies.  An expert in RF network planning, optimization and performance assessment, Kausik guides teams to develop high-performance 5G products.  In addition to supporting product development at Qualcomm, Kausik also works with wireless service providers globally to ensure they can deliver the best possible mobile experiences on their networks and in high-traffic venues.

Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2006, Kausik served as a technical lead for RAN & RF engineering at Reliance Communications where he was responsible for the successful deployment and roll-out of 3G and GSM networks across India.

Kausik Ray Chaudhuri holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree and a Master of Business Administration from Jadavpur University, and has been granted 26 patents.

Sujit Dey is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Director of the Center for Wireless Communications, and the Director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at University of California, San Diego.  He heads the Mobile Systems Design Laboratory, developing innovative and sustainable edge computing, networking and communications, multi-modal sensor fusion, and deep learning algorithms and architectures to enable novel 5G and 6G use cases like predictive personalized health, X-Reality, smart mobility and smart manufacturing. He has created inter-disciplinary programs involving multiple UCSD schools as well as community, city and industry partners; notably the Connected Health Program in 2016 and the Smart Transportation Innovation Program in 2018. In 2017, he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor, Rady School of Management, and the Jacobs Family Endowed Chair in Engineering Management Leadership.

Dr. Dey served as the Faculty Director of the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center from 2013-2015, and as the Chief Scientist, Mobile Networks, at Allot Communications from 2012-2013. In 2015, he co-founded igrenEnergi, providing intelligent battery technology and solutions for EV mobility services. He founded Ortiva Wireless in 2004, where he served as its founding CEO and later as CTO and Chief Technologist till its acquisition by Allot Communications in 2012. Prior to Ortiva, he served as the Chair of the Advisory Board of Zyray Wireless till its acquisition by Broadcom in 2004, and as an advisor to multiple companies including ST Microelectronics and NEC. Prior to joining UCSD in 1997, he was a Senior Research Staff Member at NEC C&C Research Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991.

Dr. Dey has co-authored more than 250 publications, and a book on low-power design. He holds 18 U.S. and 2 international patents, resulting in multiple technology licensing and commercialization. He has been a recipient of nine IEEE/ACM Best Paper Awards, and has chaired multiple IEEE conferences and workshops. Dr. Dey is a Fellow of the IEEE

Mischa Dohler is now VP Emerging Technologies at Ericsson Inc. in Silicon Valley, working on cutting-edge topics of 5G/6G, AR and Generative AI. He serves on the Spectrum Advisory Board of Ofcom and on the AI/ML Technical Advisory Committee of the FCC.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET); the AP Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA); and a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence. He is a serial entrepreneur with 5 companies; composer & pianist with 5 albums on Spotify/iTunes; and fluent in several languages. He has had ample coverage by national and international press and media, and is featured on Amazon Prime.

He is a frequent keynote, panel and tutorial speaker, and has received numerous awards. He has pioneered several research fields, contributed to numerous wireless broadband, IoT/M2M and cyber security standards, holds a dozen patents, organized and chaired numerous conferences, was the Editor-in-Chief of two journals, has more than 300 highly-cited publications, and authored several books. He is a Top-1% Cited Innovator across all science fields globally.

He was full/tenured Professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London and Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research from 2013-2021, driving cross-disciplinary research and innovation in technology, sciences and arts. He is the Cofounder and former CTO of the IoT-pioneering company Worldsensing; cofounder and former CTO of the AI-driven satellite company SiriusInsight.AI, and cofounder of the sustainability company Movingbeans (acquired). He also worked as a Senior Researcher at Orange/France Telecom from 2005-2008.

Between 1990-1993, he won several Olympics in maths and physics; and was part of the 3^rd round of the International Olympics in Physics for Germany.

Ian Galton received the Sc.B. degree from Brown University in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1992, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Since 1996 he has been a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, San Diego where he teaches and conducts research in the field of mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems for communications. Prior to 1996 he was with UC Irvine, and prior to 1989 he was with Acuson and Mead Data Central. His research involves the invention, analysis, and integrated circuit implementation of critical communication system blocks such as data converters, frequency synthesizers, and clock recovery systems. In addition to his academic research, he regularly consults at several semiconductor companies and teaches industry-oriented short courses on the design of mixed-signal integrated circuits. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has served on a corporate Board of Directors, on several corporate Technical Advisory Boards, as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, as a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Administrative Committee, as a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Board of Governors, as a member of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Technical Program Committee, and as a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer Program.

Tzu-Chien Hsueh (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2010. From 2001 to 2006, he was a Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Engineer in Hsinchu, Taiwan. From 2010 to 2018, he was a Research Scientist at Intel Lab Signaling Research and an Analog Engineer at Intel I/O Circuit Technology in Hillsboro, Oregon. Since 2018, he has been a faculty member and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His research interests include wireline electrical/optical transceivers, clock-and-data recovery, data-conversion circuits, on-chip performance measurement/analyzers, and digital/mixed-signal processing techniques.

Dr. Hsueh was a recipient of multiple Intel Division and Academy Awards from 2012 to 2018, the 2015 IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) Best Paper Award, the 2020 NSF CAREER Award, and the 2022 UCSD Best Teacher Award. From 2016 to 2018, he served on the Patent Committee for Intel Intellectual Property (Intel IP) and the Technical Committee for Intel Design & Test Technology Conference (DTTC). From 2018 to 2024, he served on the Technical Program Committee for IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and as a Guest Associate Editor for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L).

Fatih Porikli is an IEEE Fellow and Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm AI Research. He previously served as a full Professor at the Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University and has held several senior leadership roles, including Vice President at Futurewei, Chief Scientist of Autonomous Vehicles at Huawei, Computer Vision Research Group Leader at NICTA, and Distinguished Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. He received the R&D100 Scientist of the Year Award in 2006, has earned eight best paper awards and seven additional professional honors, and has co-authored more than 400 publications while co-organizing over twenty workshops.

Rajat Prakash is with the Wireless R&D group at Qualcomm. His current work focuses on 5G-enabled virtualized RAN and industrial IoT technologies. He has previously worked on small cells, self-organizing networks, neutral host, VoLTE and VoWiFi technologies and participated in 3GPP, O-RAN Alliance, CBRS Alliance, Multefire Alliance, Small Cell Forum, 5G ACIA, IEEE and 3GPP2 standards. Rajat obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MS from Cornell University and B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, all in Electrical Engineering

Hemanth Sampath is the VP of engineering at Qualcomm, driving expansion of 5G/6G into new devices and use-cases such as XR/metaverse, cloud gaming and private networks. He also leads the Qualcomm University Relations Platforms program, enabling educators to incorporate Snapdragon AI, Robotics and XR spaces platforms across research projects and courses.

From 2009-2019, he served as the Wi-Fi R&D systems engineering lead, shaping 802.11 standards and core technologies like MU-MIMO and Mesh, and working with Qualcomm Ventures on monetization opportunities. From 2004-2008, he held engineering leadership roles on 4G (UMB) modem and standards. He received the 2013 Qualcomm IP Excellence Award and holds 298 US patents. Prior to Qualcomm, he worked at Marvell Semiconductors and was a member of the core technology team at a startup Iospan Wireless. Hemanth received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001.

Dr. Harish Viswanathan is Head of Radio Systems Research Lab at Nokia Bell Labs. He received the B. Tech. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Since joining Bell Labs in October 1997, he has worked extensively on wireless research ranging from physical layer to network architecture and protocols including multiple antenna technology for cellular wireless networks, multi-hop relays, network optimization, network architecture, and IoT communications. He has published extensively with over 150 publications. From 2007 to 2015, Harish was in the Corp CTO organization, where as a CTO Partner he advised the Corporate CTO on Technology Strategy through in-depth analysis of emerging technology and market needs. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Bell Labs Fellow and recipient of 2023 Edison Patent Award in NJ.

Michael Yip is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecturer, Hellman Fellow, and Director of the Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab). His group currently focuses on solving problems in data-efficient and computationally efficient robot control and motion planning through the use of various forms of learning representations, including deep learning and reinforcement learning strategies. His lab applies these ideas to surgical robotics and the automation of surgical procedures.

Previously, Yip's research has investigated different facets of model-free control, planning, haptics, soft robotics and computer vision strategies, all towards achieving automated surgery. Yip's work has been recognized through several best paper awards at ICRA, including the 2016 best paper award for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Yip has previously been a research associate with Disney Research in Los Angeles involved in animatronics design, and most recently held a visiting research position with Amazon Robotics Machine Learning and Computer Vision group in Seattle. He received a B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Stanford University. 

Michael Yip’s research focus is on developing high-performance robotics that achieve dexterous and agile behaviors. This falls into three categories: (i) flexible robotics, (ii) surgical robotics, and (iii) robotic actuators and biomimetics. He investigates the design and control of flexible robotics, or snake-like robotics, for a broad range of medical, industrial, and military applications. Another significant research effort is in designing surgical robots to treat diseases such as heart disease and prostate cancer, including image-guidance and augmented reality for surgeons to guide them during an operation. A third area of research involves the design of robotic actuators and robotic limbs that mimic natural movement; this includes low-cost artificial muscles that have been used to design robot prostheses or animatronics limbs, and could be used for human augmentation.

Charlie Zhang is an EVP at Samsung Research America, where he leads research, prototyping, and standardization for 5G/6G and other wireless systems. He is also a Corporate VP and head of the  global 6G team at Samsung Research. He is currently serving as the ATIS North America Next-G Alliance Full Member Group Vice Chair. He was the Board Chair of the FiRa Consortium  from May 2019 to May 2023, and the Vice Chairman of the 3GPP RAN1 working group from 2009 to 2013, where he led development of LTE and LTE-Advanced technologies.  He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE  and received the 2024 IEEE ComSoc Industrial Innovation Award.