Rajiv Laroia

Rajiv is the cofounder and CTO of Light Labs, a company dedicated to multi-view computational imaging and it’s application to depth perception. From February 2006 to February 2011 he was SVP of Technology at Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM). In February 2000 he founded Flarion Technologies and was the CTO until it was acquired by Qualcomm in January of 2006. Flarion was the first to develop OFDMA based all-IP mobile broadband technology which became the basis of LTE 4G international wireless standard. With more than a two billion 4G devices already in use and that number growing rapidly, this technology has had a significant impact on all of humanity. Before launching Flarion Rajiv had been with Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories since 1992 when he joined the prestigious Mathematical Sciences Research Center. In 1997, he became head of Bell Labs' Digital Communications Research Department in the Wireless Research Center.

Rajiv has a very broad background that spans wireless communication networks, data transmission, information theory, VLSI design and architecture, analog mixed-signal and RF circuit design, high-speed AD/DA data converters, speech image & video processing/compression and optics.

Rajiv received his Ph.D. and Master's degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, all in electrical engineering. His thesis also contributed to V.34, the ITU voice-band modem international standard. He has coauthored the book "OFDMA Mobile Broadband Communications: A Systems Approach" with Dr. Junyi Li and Dr. Xinzhou Wu. He has 400 issued patents and more than 400 pending. Rajiv has won numerous industry awards. He was inducted to the Innovations Hall of Fame, University of Maryland, College Park, in 2006. In 2007 he received the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award and in 2013 the Distinguished Alumni Award from the EE Department, University of Maryland. He was awarded the IEEE Industrial Innovation Award in 2013. He received the 2018 Eduard Rhein Technology Award for pioneering work on fourth generation wireless systems. He has been awarded the IEEE 2020 Alexander Graham Bell Medal for contributions to cellular wireless data systems. Rajiv is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.