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Milind Kulkarni is Vice President and Head of InterDigital’s Wireless Labs responsible for overseeing research and standardization, and visiting professor in the Department of Communications Systems at University of Surrey, UK. In this role he manages 6G research, standardization of 5G-Advanced in 3GPP and 802.11bn in IEEE. He has gained more than 35 years of advanced technology product development experience and expertise in areas relevant to mobile networks; radio access networks, cloud-native design, edge computing, AIML, and network management and service orchestration.
Prior to joining InterDigital, Milind served as the Vice President of R&D for CommScope within the Intelligent Cellular Networks business unit. In this role he established CommScope’s 5G vision and strategy for Small Cells and led the global R&D team to develop and commercialize vRAN for Mobile Network Operators and private enterprises.
Prior to CommScope, Milind held key leadership positions at Nokia and Motorola while playing a significant role in the development of XG-RAN products. In his early career, Milind also worked on NASA projects at McDonnel Douglas Space Systems as well as Department of Defense projects at Honeywell.
Milind has received multiple awards for his excellence in quality and ingenuity of the Products he has developed. He has been a keynote speaker and panel participant in many of the recognized industry events such as Mobile World Congress and 6G Symposium.