Xu Guanghan, Chief Scientist, Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Inc

Xu Guanghan, Chief Scientist, Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Inc

Xu Guanghan received a BS degree in biomedical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985 and an MS degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in 1988. He obtained his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1991.

From 1991 to 1992, he was a short-term visiting scientist at the Lab of Information and Decision Systems of MIT. In 1992, Dr. Xu joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and was later promoted to Associate Professor.

In 1995, he co-founded Cwill Telecommunications, which later formed a joint venture with the China Academy of Telecom Technology, named Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Inc. He served as the CTO and later CEO of Cwill Telecommunications and developed the SCDMA wireless local loop systems that have been deployed in more than 100 cities in China with a network capacity of 10 million.

In 1998, he initiated the first draft of the TD-SCDMA standard proposal. In September 2000, he co-founded Navini Networks and served as CTO until 2004 to develop the MC-SCDMA wireless broadband systems, which have been deployed in more than 30 countries worldwide.

In 2004, he came back to China and served as Chief Scientist in Beijing Xinwei and created the next generation wireless broadband access systems (McWiLL).

Dr. Xu received an IEEE Paper Award in 1996, US National Science Foundation Career Award in 1995. He also won the First-Class Award of Science and Technology Advancement from the State Department of China for the "SCDMA Wireless Local Loop Systems" in 2001.

In 2003, he was awarded "Asian American Engineer of the Year" by the Chinese Institute of Engineers in the United States. In 2004, he received the Second-Class Award for Science and Technology Advancement from the State Development of China for "TD-SCDMA ITU Standard for Third Generation (3G) Mobile Communications".