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Dr. Roberto Padovani Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Dr Roberto Padovani is executive vice president and chief technology officer for QUALCOMM Incorporated. He was involved in the initial design, development and standardisation of IS-95 CDMA systems. For the past 15 years, Dr Padovani has been involved in the research and development of digital communication systems with particular emphasis on cellular Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems. His research and inventions in this field have led to the worldwide standardisation and commercialisation of CDMA for second and third-generation cellular systems. More recently he has led the design and development of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, an IP-based high-speed wide area data network.

In 1984 Dr Padovani joined M/A-COM Linkabit in San Diego where he was involved in the design and development of satellite communication systems, secure video systems, and error-correcting coding equipment. In 1986, he joined QUALCOMM Incorporated.

Dr Padovani holds over 50 patents on wireless CDMA systems. He has published numerous technical papers in the digital communications field and was the co-recipient of the 1991 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Paper Award for a fundamental paper on the capacity of CDMA cellular systems. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Dr Padovani received a Laureate degree from the University of Padova, Italy, and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, all in electrical and computer engineering.