Ning Bi is a Vice President of Engineering heading Multimedia R & D at Qualcomm Technologies. He has been involved in Qualcomm’s multimedia R & D from its early phase. During his tenure, Ning initiated and contributed to speech recognition and coding, mobile 3D graphics and computer vision technologies, bolstering the company’s leadership in multimedia solutions for mobile, automotive, IoT, XR and compute. Ning has a few hundred patents granted. He received a PhD from the University of Arizona, a MS from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a BS from Peking University.