Sanjai Kohli

Sanjai Kohli is recognized as the father of commercial GPS for his fundamental technology contributions to GPS and wireless communications. He was CEO of Wave Computing until June 2021, leading the successful turnaround/restructuring effort of MIPS and its pivot RISC-V. Prior to Wave, he was responsible for technology development of the Facebook Terragraph urban connectivity network, via acquisition of his company Inovi. He was previously Founder and CTO at SiRF, the company that created the commercial GPS market, from 1995 until March 2008. He also founded and successfully ran two other technology companies – WirelessHome and TrueSpan. Sanjai was awarded the European Inventor Award for making GPS a commercial product, and he holds 60 U.S. patents in GPS and communication technology. He is a graduate and distinguished alumnus of both the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Washington University in St. Louis. He is also an IEEE Fellow.