Simone Merlin, Ph.D.

Principal Systems Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc

Dr. Simone Merlin is a Principal Systems Engineer/Manager at Qualcomm Technologies Inc.. He is currently working on 5G Research and Development, in the areas of Extended Reality optimizations, 5G Private Networks automation,  Integrated communications and sensing design. Prior to that, he worked on WiFi protocols design,  IEEE standardization, prototyping and RF sensing.

Simone completed both an M.S. and Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering at the University of Padua, Italy. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.