Ashwin Sampath
Senior Director of Technology
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Ashwin Sampath is currently Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm Technologies Incorporated, NJ. At Qualcomm, he founded the 5G millimeter wave research project within the R&D division and led the project from inception through the prototype phase, while also overseeing channel measurements/modeling and system design. He led Qualcomm’s over-the-air performance optimization of millimeter wave systems as well as millimeter wave modem architecture.

Prior to Qualcomm, from 2003-2005, he was with Texas Instruments, and before that, was Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies from 1997-2003 working on WCDMA systems. His work experience also includes an executive leadership stint at the innovative millimeter wave startup Mixcomm in 2018-19. Ashwin has over 20 years of industry experience in wireless technology research, standardization and product development. He has over 100 issued patents on a range of topics in wireless communications. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University.