Industry Track Panelist – Opportunities and Challenges in Drones, HAPS and Non-terrestrial Networks

Biography:

Ravi Pragada is a Principal Engineer at InterDigital Labs where he is currently research related to unmanned systems and related technologies. He has actively contributed to and held leadership positions in various next generation cellular system projects viz., millimeter wave air-interface design and development, device-to-device communications, millimeter wave backhaul and beyond 4G architectures. He also held engineering positions in product development including lead software architect for HSPA/UMTS and LTE protocol stack development projects covering handset and infrastructure products. He is a recipient of numerous innovation awards and Lucy Mahjobian distinguished publication award. Prior to InterDigital he has part of Motorola team (Arlington Heights, IL) that has developed RNC and NodeB infrastructure for 3GPP UMTS system. He received his M.S. in computer science and engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1999) and B.E. from Andhra University, India.