Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · Hybrid

• Chief advisor and chief proposer of tech industry infrastructure and tech ecosystem partnership for Hangzhou to become worldly leading hub in innovation, entrepreneurship, science and technology. As Chair Professor of Zhejiang University (now ranked No.3 in China), Prof. Lu has a team of faculty, staff and students to define new strategy and plan and to reshape the future development of the greater Hangzhou regions to become the world's leading hub in technology and business.
• Hangzhou is also Prof. Lu's hometown, and therefore Prof. Lu has strong passion and love in helping the community and society to move to the next level of excellence.
• Prof. Lu is also convincing Silicon Valley's leading companies, including but not limited to, Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, WD, etc, to set up Center of Excellence in Hangzhou.
• For more information about Hangzhou, please visit: https://www.ehangzhou.gov.cn/
• For any question on business collaboration, please message to Prof. Lu directly.

Apr 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 11 mos · Washington DC

• As ordered by President Obama and confirmed by President Trump, Cybersecurity is becoming the most critical issue for the national security, and Mobile Cybersecuirty is one of the most important sectors in this field.
• With about 28 years' technology background and expertise in mobile wireless technology and as chief inventor for mobile cloud platform and open wireless platform, as well as former federal expert in U.S. F.C.C. and other authorities, Prof. Lu was invited to lead this extremely important Task Force to address the increasingly urgent Mobile Cybersecurity concern for the national security.
• Prof. Lu's mission is rapidly increasing for the upcoming Trump's presidency.
• Stay tuned for the program moving forward quickly...

Oct 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 5 mos · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · Hybrid

• Teaching EMBA, MBA and graduate students on global capitalization of intellectual properties, evaluation of intellectual properties, management of intellectual properties and strategic decisions on intellectual properties. In addition, I supervise a big team of global business strategy and partnership among largest Chinese corporations going global.
• Further, I am also senior advisor to several very large projects in China including Smart City projects of Shanghai and Hangzhou as well as China IoV (Internet of Vehicle) project, etc.

Oct 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 5 mos · Palo Alto

• Since 2011, we launched the 6G Task Force for Wireless Technology to fix and improve the network issues existed in the 5G standards, including but not limited to, the unsafe solution of millions of mini-cells networking in the residence areas, the radiation issue in the current 5G offerings, the architectural issue in 5G and 4G, etc.
• Now it is time to kick off the 6G movement with Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) for wireless systems and networks, and Open Wireless Access (OWA) for access control, networking protocol and transmission technology. The 6G Task Force is provided by "West Lake" 6G technology research services since 2011.
• To join our mailing list for the newest updates of 6G technology and business, please send email to tf6g+subscribe@googlegroups.com

Oct 2010 – Dec 2019 · 9 yrs 2 mos · Beijing and Silicon Valley · Hybrid

• Part-time Member of the central IPR committee on (mostly in USA):
• 1) Global IPR policy and planning;
• 2) Global IPR Evaluation and Revaluation;
• 3) Build China's first Global IPR Evaluation and Exchange platform;
• 4) Train gov't leaders on Global IPR protection, evaluation and management;
• 5. Train national-level technical experts with integration of global IPR and knowledge.

Apr 2010 – Present · 15 yrs 11 mos · Cupertino, CA · On-site

• Prof. Lu invested over US$20M personally by family foundation in developing AI-native 5G+, 6G, SDV and IoT mobile device and advanced network infrastructure for AI Data Flow with Trust across various platforms, where he is the chief architect and PI for the system architecture and networking infrastructure.
• Palo Alto Research Inc is a private Research and Development firm dedicated to the innovations in various projects of wireless, mobile, cloud, smart, AI, AGI, ASI, SDV and fintech sectors.
• We delivered innovative products and services to clients by world-class R&D services, project management, consulting and engineering services.
• We are specialized in mobile, wireless, network, IoT, AI, AGI, ASI, SDV, smart life, fintech and cloud sectors of the industry. We are Silicon Valley leaders on global project management and project leadership based on innovative project models and digital transformation platform.
• We have close project partnership and collaboration with local professors and researchers in Stanford University, University of California, University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology, Santa Clara University, and San Jose State University, etc.
• We also have close collaborations with local senior engineers and experts in Nvidia, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, Tesla, Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Applied Materials, Synopsys, Cisco, LAM Research, TSMC, ASML, etc for technology development and project management.
• In the last decade, we created over $80B values for our global clients, based on our leading position rooted in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area.
• As of June 30th, 2025, Palo Alto Research was valued about US$230M in IP assets, talent assets and ecosystem platforms rooted in the heart of San Francisco Bay Area (aka Silicon Valley).
• Please visit http://paloaltoresearch.org/ for more information.

Apr 2009 – Present · 16 yrs 11 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• This is the most authoritative and flagship 5G SUMMIT in North America, focusing on 5G, 5G+ and 6G mobile wireless technology movement for advanced mobile network technology and mobile device technology, business model and industrial partnership.
• Visit www.wirelesscongress.com for more information.

Nov 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 4 mos · Brussel, Belgium

• Independent Examiner and Evaluator for E.U. Proposals in critical research and innovations, and others.

Oct 2007 – Sep 2015 · 7 yrs 11 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Licensing and managing the widely utilized Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) and Mobile Cloud IPR Core to leading mobile device/chipset vendors and operators in the Valley and the global. Acquiring emerging IPRs in Energy, Environment, Health, Biotech, Medical and ICT sectors.
• A good patent is the best asset in life. If your qualified patent relates to one of the hottest business in the industry, it may value from $1M to $50M in cash, and most importantly we acquire your qualified patent at the market value. We also acquire fresh ideas without patent or just application drafts.
• If you have great ideas or research findings, please contact me immediately thru LinkedIN. We BUY ideas with CASH !

Sep 2005 – Present · 20 yrs 6 mos · Silicon Valley

• Chief architect of baseband SoC and mobile device platform for leading key clients globally. The design-wins had been utilized by over one billion mobile users worldwide.

Jan 2004 – Dec 2018 · 14 yrs 11 mos · Santa Clara

• In-House IP Chief for Vobile's trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade-secrets and all intellectual property assets and management. VP business development for assisting CEO Yangbin Wang to help company going public. Prof. Lu was in charge of building Vobile's entire IP assets and IPO procedures.

Jun 2002 – Jul 2003 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hong Kong

• On sabbatical from Infineon AG, but still on duty as Chief Representative and Vice President of Infineon Asia Pacific on government relations.

Sep 2001 – Sep 2003 · 2 yrs · Washington, DC

• Advisor to FCC on spectrum, new technology and policy, directly appointed by Michael Powell, FCC Chairman. See federal public notice at: https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Public_Notices/2001/da011366.html

Jan 2000 – Present · 26 yrs 2 mos · Saratoga, California

• Managing World Wireless Congress Foundation covering family functions including World Wireless Congress, Global Mobile show, Global Mobile Conference & Congress, World Wireless Institute & Academy and others. Offices in both S.F. Bay Area and Shanghai. Visit http://wirelesscongress.com/ for more information.

Oct 1998 – Present · 27 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• [Open Wireless Architecture for systems and networks and Open Wireless Access for access control, networking protocol and transmission technology - Visit https://paloaltoresearch.org/owa for more.]
• Over two billion (2B) mobile devices have utilized OWA technology in their products.
• For whatever RTT such as TDMA, CDMA or OFDMA, wireless transmission requires space diversity (S), frequency division (F), time slot division (T) and further possible code division (C) within frequency or time slot, hence any RTT is a function of {S,F,T,C} and so on., namely f(RTT) = f{S,F,T,C}.
• a) For TDMA case, only T is a variable, and S/F/C are constant;
• b) For CDMA case, only C is a variable, and S/F/T are constant;
• c) For OFDMA case, only F is a variable, and S/T/C are constant.
• OWA is proposed to simplify the function of f(RTT) by converging TDMA, CDMA and OFDMA effectively into one common platform in order to support multiple carriers for same mobile user.
• The future RTT will be focused on OWA (open wireless access and/or open wireless architecture) based on User-Centric mobile service instead of Carrier-Centric mobile service model, with open common SIM card or eSIM towards future Mobile DNA supporting multiple mobile carriers for advanced network technology and device technology. Prof. Lu proposed and presented OWA solution in 2000 during 2000 World Wireless Congress wherein the OWA is becoming the global standard in wireless industry.
• Based on LU's Laws, "No single Radio Transmission Technology (RTT) can do both Broadband High-speed and Seamless Mobility in a commercial environment with required network capacity", and "Transmitting very high data rates over a fast-fading mobile wireless link in a commercial environment does not work well because it requires very high S/N by the increased receiver bandwidth and much more spectrum with very low BER which is really hard to implement in the commercial business model" by Prof. Willie Lu, former Stanford University Professor.

Feb 1998 – Present · 28 yrs 1 mo · Washington DC

• Member, Expert and Delegate of U.S. Delegation for the OECD and ITU Missions since 1998, under Department of State, United States, in charge of Technology, Intellectual Properties and Standards in the field of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and Mobile Cybersecurity.
• Technology Evaluation Expert and Global IP Expert for the United States in the subject missions.
• Currently, Prof. Lu is an U.S. expert in the following OECD Expert Groups:
• OECD AI Data Free Flow with Trust (OECD AI-DFFT)
• OECD AI Privacy Enhanced Technology (OECD AI-PET)
• OECD AI Data Networking Protocol (OECD AI-DNP)

Jun 1997 – Jan 1998 · 7 mos · Alameda, CA

• Chief Architect and VP of the wireless BUs including CDMA, PHS and WLL.

Jan 1997 – Aug 2016 · 19 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, Shanghai and Munich, etc · On-site

• Sr. Principal and Chief Architect of wireless and mobile systems including baseband SoC, RF Chipset, terminal devices and infrastructure; Head of wireless standardizations and Infineon ventures; Chief representative of Infineon Asia Pacific; VP of Asia-Pacific operations, marketing, product management and chip productions, Senior Consultant to Infineon business development, global marketing and chip production, etc.
• Job responsibility:
• Head of concept engineering, system architecture, product definition, product development, technical marketing, product management, project management, global operations, industrial partnership, key account management, tech industry infrastructure, industry alliance and university collaboration, in COM sector, Mobile BU, AP BU, etc.
• Project responsibility:
• Head of System Architecture and Standardization of X-Gold Baseband (SDR), IEEE802.11, IEEE802.16, IEEE802.15, IEEE802.21, IEEE802.3, IETF, 3GPP, ITU WP8F, ITU IMT, UWB, WIMAX, DOCSIS, DSL, etc.
• University Partnership:
• Head of University Research Partnership of UC Berkeley, Stanford Univ., UCLA, UCSD, MIT, Cornell Univ., UT Austin, TU-Munich, TU-Berlin, RWTH, KTH, Tsinghua Univ., Zhejiang Univ., BUPT, Xidian Univ, SJTU, etc.
• Government Responsibility:
• Chief Government Representative of Siemens Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc.

Dec 1996 – Aug 1997 · 8 mos · USA

• Principal architect of CDMA systems for Sprint.

Feb 1995 – Dec 1996 · 1 yr 10 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Head and Guest scientist of system architecture for broadband wireless mobile systems.