Sudeepto Roy
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Sudeepto is an engineering VP with Qualcomm’s Technology Licensing segment, where he focuses on global innovation-enablement activities and emerging technology consulting for patent licensees and Governments of countries licensees operate in.
As a multiyear veteran of Qualcomm and the wireless industry, Sudeepto has pivotal experience in leading engineering and product teams for the design and launch of several hundreds of models of phones, IoT, computing, networking, and infrastructure products, by all major manufacturers, including Apple, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Blackberry, Samsung, LG, Sony, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and others, while enabling the industry’s major technology shifts from 2G, 3G, 4G and now, 5G.
As one of the earliest members of Qualcomm’s ASIC group, QCT, Sudeepto formed its software customer engineering team in 1998 and grew it from scratch to 1000+ strong worldwide across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In 2004, 2006, and 2007, respectively, he was instrumental in starting Qualcomm’s Hyderabad, Rome and Ottawa engineering centers. During 2015-2016, he led Qualcomm’s chipset roadmap planning team, and between 2016-2017, he formed QTL’s ecosystem engagement and strategy team.
At present, Sudeepto and his team enable system-level design of 5G, IoT, and AI-based devices at strategic patent licensees in developed markets, while nurturing startups and new licensees launch innovative products, and learn about IPR protection, particularly in the US, China, India, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, and in several African countries. His team has incubated and mentored close to two hundred pre-series-A startups, in core sectors including healthcare, smart cities, and robotics.
Sudeepto holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from MSU, India and ODU, Virginia respectively, and has completed post-graduate certificate programs in Engineering Management, Intellectual Property Law, AI/ML, and Quantum Computing at Caltech, UCSD, and MIT.
Sudeepto volunteers for issues of community interest (children’s safety and development, social equity and inclusiveness), and serves on the board of two non-profit schools (as Board member and former Board-President at Le Lycée Français de San Diego dba La Petite École, and Board member and a volunteer teacher at Onkur Bangla Language Academy of San Diego). As a resident of the coastal village of Del Mar, CA, with his wife and daughter, his hobbies include family activities, technology writing, travel, gardening, reading, music, and pilates.