Lingrong Lu

Dr. Lingrong Lu served as UTStarcom’s Chief Technology Officer since September, 2022. Lingrong has more than twenty years of telecommunications industry experience. Since joining UTStarcom in 2002, she has held various management roles in R&D, system engineering, and product management in NGN/IMS Core Network, Optical Transport and IPTV product lines, and served as a Senior Consultant in CTO office. After two years away taking role of SDN/NFV Marketing Expert in Huawei Technologies, she rejoined the company in September 2016 to manage the ONS R&D Department. Prior to her appointment as the company’s CTO, she served as Vice President of R&D since June, 2018. In her earlier experience from 1999 to 2002, she worked for Lucent Technologies (acquired by Nokia) in its Singapore CDMA GTS and Shenzhen ONS R&D Center. Lingrong graduated from Zhejiang University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, and received a Doctoral Degree from the same university in 2014.