Dr. Hao Xu
VP Engineering, Head of Qualcomm Research China, IEEE Fellow

Bio: Dr. Xu is the Vice President of Engineering, Head of Qualcomm Research China and IEEE Fellow. Since 2003, he has been working at Qualcomm R&D, where he has led many research and standardization projects from 3G to 5G. His current research focus is 6G, AI and robotics. Prior to Qualcomm, he worked at Bell Lab’s Wireless Communication Research Lab. In 2003, he received the Bell-Labs President Gold Metal Award for his contributions to MIMO technology, including the early near field MIMO research.

Dr. Xu has 870+ US issued patents, numerous journal publications and over 20000 citations. In 2018, he received the Top Ten 5G Leading Figures Awards in China. He also won numerous industry awards for various 5G trials. He currently serves on IEEE Communications Society Awards Standing Committee, Industry Communities Board, Emerging Technologies Standing Committee, and the technical advisory board for HKUST ECE department.

Dr. Xu received his B.S and M.S. from Moscow Power Engineering Institute and Technical University, Russia, in 1994 and 1996. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2000. During his Ph.D., he pioneered the millimeter-wave propagation research at 38 GHz and 60 GHz with Dr. Rappaport. In 1999, he received the IEEE Communications Society Steve Rice Award.