Durga Malladi

Durga Malladi is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Planning, Edge Solutions and Data Center at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Durga is responsible for technology product management and IP roadmap planning across all businesses in Qualcomm Technologies. This spans artificial intelligence (hardware, software, tools), connectivity (5G, Wi-Fi and 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 and Data Center Business Units. In prior roles, Durga led 4G and 5G wireless research and drove the 5G Modem-RF technology roadmap and mobile broadband business in Qualcomm. He joined as a Senior Engineer in 1998. 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 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.