Speaker Bio
Durga Malladi is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Planning & Edge Solutions, at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He joined as a Senior Engineer in 1998.
He is responsible for technology product management and roadmap planning across all businesses in Qualcomm Technologies. This spans artificial intelligence (hardware, software, tools), connectivity (5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Satellite Communications, positioning), processors (CPU, GPU, NPU), multimedia (computer vision, audio, video, sensors), central software, developer ecosystem, and data management and analytics platforms. In addition, he is responsible for Qualcomm’s cellular infrastructure business.
In prior roles from 2006-18, Durga led wireless research in Qualcomm including 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced and 5G enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), and Massive IoT, spanning sub6 and mmW bands. His responsibilities spanned system design, standardization, prototype testbeds, pre-commercial vendor inter-operability tests and trials.
Durga is a senior member of IEEE and holds 517 USPTO granted patents. He is a recipient of Qualcomm’s IP Excellence Award, Qualcomm Distinguished Contributor Award for Project Leadership, Qualcomm Upendra Patel Achievement Awards for Outstanding Contributions, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He serves on the CTIA Board of Directors and the AI Governance Alliance Steering Committee at the World Economic Forum.
Durga holds a B.Tech (’93) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, M.S (’95) and Ph.D. (’98) from UCLA, and an AI Graduate Certificate from Stanford (’23). His Ph.D. dissertation is on adaptive estimation and filtering techniques, and his research interests include artificial intelligence, signal processing, communication theory, and quantum computing.