Kamal Sahota is Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, leading the Radio Frequency Integrated circuit design team for 3G, 4G and 5G cellular radio transceivers used in modern smart phones.He received his BSEE (Sum Cum Laude) and ME in electrical and computer engineering from UCSD in 1993 and 1999 respectively with a minor in art history. He joined Qualcomm in 1993 as an analog integrated circuit designer working on the first CDMA digital cell phones.Over his career he has contributed to the evolution of the cellular phone radio subsystem from 1G to 5G. He holds over 290 patents in the field of RF analog circuits and systems for wireless communications.