<div dir="ltr"><p id="m_-4228996252926531577gmail-m_8097086048333353376gmail-m_-189833123373690624gmail-docs-internal-guid-ea48c4df-1bc2-3059-fe19-5a152d92d398" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><i><br></i></span></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000"><i>On behalf of CSAIL Alliances...</i></font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font size="6">5G: Transforming the Wireless Industry with Qualcomm</font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent"><font size="4"><b>Speaker: </b></font><font size="4"><b>Mingxi Fan</b></font><font size="4"><b>, &#39;99, MS &#39;99, PhD &#39;02, Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm Research</b></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent"><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><br></span></p><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent"><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font size="4">Date and Time</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font size="4"> Monday, April 10, 4:00-5:00PM</font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font size="4"><b>Location</b> Hewlett Room, 32-G882</font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font size="4"><b>Registration </b><a href="http://bit.ly/CSAILQualcommTechTalk17" target="_blank"><b>http://bit.ly/<wbr>CSAILQualcommTechTalk17</b></a></font></span></font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br></span></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b></b><br></p></span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent"><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><b>Abstract </b></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr">Every decade, the cellular industry goes through a major technology generation, from 2G to 3G to 4G, and now it is time to prepare for 5G in the next decade.  The 5G technology is designed to transform the industry with giga-bit connectivity everywhere, ultra-reliable automation control, and massive IoE with billions of connections to the network.  This presentation will describe the technologies that enable the 5G vision, from air interface to spectrum innovations and cover industry eco-system status as of today.  There are also unique opportunities positioned for long-term research with initial encouraging findings.</p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b>Speaker Bio</b><br></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr">Dr. Mingxi Fan is currently Vice President of Engineering in Qualcomm Research with specific focus on spectrum sharing innovation for LTE and 5G.   He joined the division in 2002 as a system engineer on cdma2000 EV-DO project.   Since then, he has been driving key technology initiatives on cdma2000, UMTS, LTE and now 5G from concept to realization and commercialization.  His responsibilities in company over the years span across system design, prototype, standardization, technology positioning and evangelization, and commercial product development and verification.  He established Qualcomm Research China operation in 2008 as the first overseas research division for the company.  He is presently driving corporate initiative on mobile technology innovation in spectrum sharing based on LTE and 5G.  Mingxi holds over 100 granted patents, and he has received top contributor awards in Qualcomm Research in 2004 and 2011.  Mingxi received his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1999 and 2002, respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where he also received the Ernst A. Guillemin EE Master&#39;s thesis award from MIT in June, 1999.</p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><br></p></span></div>