Rajiv Laroia

Dr. Laroia is the Co-founder and CTO of the Light Company, a company dedicated to multi view computational imaging. Prior to Light Co. Dr Laroia was SVP of Technology at Qualcomm Inc. (a company acquired by Qualcomm in 2005 for $805 million). Dr. Laroia founded Flarion Technologies in 2000, the first company to develop OFDMA based all-IP mobile broadband technology (which is now the basis of LTE/4G). Dr. Laroia’s development of Flash-OFDM was integral to transitioning cellular voice access systems to the wireless data access systems that have mobilized the access to the Internet via smartphones, tablets, and wireless modems. Flash-OFDM, plus many other concepts developed by Dr. Laroia and his teams, helped form the basis for the LTE and 4G systems that are powering today’s mobile broadband communications. His work on Flash-OFDM earned him the distinguished IEEE Alexander Graham Bell award in 2020. Before Flarion, Dr. Laroia was at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories at the prestigious Mathematical Sciences Research Center. Dr. Laroia is an IEEE Fellow and also the recipient of the 2018 Eduard Rhein Technology award. Dr. Laroia received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland.