Lu Dai

Lu Dai is a Senior Director of Technical Standards at Qualcomm, leading Qualcomm’s involvement in semiconductor standards and industry organizations. Lu was previously Senior Director of Engineering and led Qualcomm’s SOC design verification team and front-end methodologies and initiatives. Lu was also the Design Verification Lead responsible for multiple generations of Premium Tier lead chips, including the best-selling Snapdragon 800 that powers Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. He has been continuously working at Qualcomm for the past 15 years.

Prior to Qualcomm, Lu spent 11 years at Cisco serving as Design Verification Lead for its Gigabit Switching Business Unit where he worked on multiple generations of Cat4k ASICs. Lu started his career at Intel Architecture Lab.

Lu is also the current Chair of Accellera, an international standards organization in electronic design automation (EDA) and integrated circuit (IC) design and manufacturing. He is the longest serving Chair of Accellera since 2017 and served on its Board of Director since 2015.

Lu holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell, and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.