Carlos Cordeiro of Intel Corp.

Wi-Fi, a cornerstone of global wireless connectivity, is estimated to carry anywhere between 50% to 80% of the world's Internet traffic volume. Recent strides in Wi-Fi technology, exemplified by Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7, showcase remarkable achievements in meeting escalating data demands through innovations like OFDMA, wider 320 MHz channels, 4K QAM modulation, and multi-link operation, enabling aggregate peak data rates exceeding 30 Gbps. While these advancements are commendable, the future of Wi-Fi extends beyond raw speed. Anticipating the next decade, this presentation centers on the imperative for Wi-Fi to evolve into a reliable, deterministic, and intelligent network foundation. This evolution is essential to cater to emerging applications such as contextual computing, environmental sensing, multi-device experiences, gesture recognition, AR/VR, ambient and industrial IoT, and gaming. As such, in this talk, we navigate through Wi-Fi's historical journey, and its current state, and illuminate the major technological trends shaping the next decade. Emphasis is placed on the development of key technologies required to bring determinism, security, reliability and intelligence to Wi-Fi, thus addressing the diverse and complex needs of the future.

Biography:

Dr. Carlos Cordeiro is an Intel Fellow and serves as the wireless CTO in Intel’s client computing group. Carlos leads Intel’s global wireless connectivity standards and ecosystem team and is responsible for defining Intel’s next generation wireless connectivity technology strategy, ecosystem engagements, and regulatory planning. Carlos has had a leading role in the technology development, standardization and productization of various generations of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, having developed major technology innovations that are found in billions of wireless devices. He is an IEEE Fellow and serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that defines Wi-Fi. 

Due to his contributions to wireless communications, Carlos received several awards including the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s prestigious CTO of the Year Award in 2022, the 2017 IEEE Standards Medallion, the Intel Inventor of the Year Award in 2016, the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award in 2011, and the IEEE New Face of Engineering Award in 2007. He is the co-author of two textbooks on wireless published in 2006 and 2011, has published over 130 papers in the wireless area alone, and holds over 450 patents. He is the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine and has served as Editor of various journals including the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Wireless Communication Letters and the ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review journal.

Email: carlos.cordeiro@intel.com

Address:Intel Corp., , Portland, Oregon, United States, 97124