1994-1995 Visiting Research Scientist, NTT, etc, Japan 1995-1997 Guest Scientist and Post-Doctorate, GMD, Germany 1997-1998 Executive Director & VP, UTStarcom HQ, U.S.A. 1998-2004 Senior Principal Architect & VP, Siemens-Infineon AG 2002-2003 Visiting Professor on sabbatical, CUHK, Hong Kong 2000-2002 Member, U.S. FCC Technological Adv. Council, USA 1999-Now Member, U.S. ITU Delegation, United States of America 2003-2006 Board member, IEEE Spectrum - The Flag of IEEE 2003-Now Chief Architect, NG iPhone Architecture Task Force 2000-Now Independent Expert , Advisor & Examiner, EU-FP6/FP7 2004-Now Director, U.S. Center for Wireless Comm. (USCWC) 1998-Now Member, Nat'l ICT Technology Experts Council (TEC) 2008-Now President & Chairman, LU Capitals LLC, California

Prof. Willie W. LU, well-known for his "LU's Law", a worldly notable senior expert and technologist with living & working experiences in Japan, Germany, USA, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and China, is the principal author of the global bestselling "Future Mobile Phone Design Book" as the industry "Bible" book for the future mobile phone systems. Prof. Lu is selected as one of "The 20 Most Important People for Global Mobile Movement" by World Wireless Congress in 2008. His invented OWA IP cores will be widely used by more than one billion mobile phone users within next five years. In addition, Prof. Lu has helped defend near 100 companies worldwide (mostly the sponsors and partners) on IP protections as a worldly expert and technology judge with success rate 100% so far. Prof. Lu has been listed as "one of the most important technology experts and talents" by various China authorities since 1998, and the "People for China FUTURE" torch program. Dr. Lu is now investing heavily on IP assets as President of LU Capitals LLC, Calif.

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Prof. Willie W. LU, a worldly very active wireless technologist and scientist based in San Francisco bay area, Shanghai, Beijing, Geneva and Munich. Prof. Lu is also an active participant of Stanford Business program, Stanford Executive program and Stanford Law program in enhancing and upgrading his worldwide business leadership.

Prof. Willie W. LU is a world's notable chief wireless architect and special technical advisor in emerging wireless communications. He has been a senior consultant and advisor for over twenty information and communication technology authorities in over ten countries.

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Prof. Lu is a distinguished and prominent overseas Chinese expert in wireless technologies worldwide. Currently, he holds many technical as well as management positions across the globe, including a chief strategic advisor of 3G/B3G/4G, an executive director of U.S. Center for Wireless Communications, an executive director of global "Mission 2020 R&D Plan" and an adjunct and/or consulting professor of many leading universities in US, China and Europe including Zhejiang University and Stanford University.

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He was/is member of Technological Advisory Council of U.S. Federal Communications Commission, and ITU delegate of both Siemens AG and United States. He is also in the technical evaluation experts committee of European Commission, and external academic examiner of lots of world-class universities in the world.

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Prof. Lu has been leading numerous IEEE technical activities including IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications as well as IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, IEEE VTC, etc. He is in the editorial board of the flagship IEEE Spectrum and IEEE Communications Magazine, and has been leading over 40 IEEE special issues in emerging wireless technologies.

Prof. Lu has been well trained for intellectual property (IP) protection, and has attended more than 24 months on IP courses, seminars and trainings in Stanford Law School, USPTO meetings, WIPO meetings and other authorities since 2001. Dr. Lu is a well established IP technical examiner and evaluator in US as well as in EU countries, and helped many companies in defending their IP assets across the global.

Since 2000, Prof. Lu has been designing the wireless system architecture for over 50 mobile smart phones based on open air interfaces by OWA. Prof. Lu was senior principal wireless architect (chief architect level) in Infineon Technologies AG, responsible for key accounts' architecture including Samsung, Ericsson, Siemens, Sony, Motorola, LG, Huawei, Panasonic, NEC, etc. He is a notable wireless architect and technology evaluator in both Wall Street (financial and PR) and Palo Alto Street (VC, technology and legal), and advisor for top executives of Fortune 100/500 companies and Forbes Companies in Silicon Valley as well as across the Unites States.

In 2000, Prof. Lu founded the global 3G conference in the United States, late expanded to World Wireless Congress which greatly helped promote the ITU mission of IMT2000 and Beyond. He is also one of the global founders of B3G and 4G initiatives in ITU, IEEE as well as other international bodies.

In 2004, Prof. Lu founded the Global Mobile Congress in China to reflect the increasing importance of the Asia-Pacific region in next generation mobile communication technologies focusing on the convergence of wireless access systems and wireless mobile networks. This congress is the region's most authoritative platform in the field.

GMC'2005 has been reported in over 50 medias in China (including Xinhua News, CCTV, China Daily) for its tremendous contributions to China's future mobile communication technologies. All leading authorities, policy-makers, technical experts and business executives participated in this prestigious technology summit in Chongqing, China.

In 2002, Prof. Lu founded the Fourth Generation Mobile Forum (4GMF) which is becoming the world's leading platform on the research, development, design and standardization of emerging 4G mobile communications focusing on Open Wireless Architecture (OWA). This 4G-OWA business will be over $500B by year 2020.

Prof. Lu is a member of Churchill Club, the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area's most prestigious Elites and Leaders club in technology and business. The Churchill Club has built a strong reputation for Silicon Valley CEOs, up-and-coming executives and national leaders to define the future technology and future business leadership.

In 2004, Prof. Lu founded the Open Wireless Architecture Initiatives program to promote the revolutionary and innovative R&D mission on next generation wireless and mobile communications' core architecture.

Click here to download the 4G-OWA White Paper published by ITU Telcom World 2006 in Hong Kong, which becomes the milestone document to drive the fourth generation mobile communication development.

During the 2007 National People's Congress (NPC) of China, Prof. Lu was invited to visit Ten most influential EE/CS/IE universities of China as an independent examiner for international academy and standards to help China deliver around Five world-class universities in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). This very important independent examination report is submitted directly to the State Council and the NPC of China.

Prof. Lu had led many world-class wireless projects of over $1BILLION in China, Japan, Germany and United States, etc. He can speak English, Chinese, Japanese and some German. His strong international background becomes the invaluable asset to his worldwide technical leadership. He has been listed in over 30 "Who's Who"s worldwide.

Prof. Willie W. Lu, a worldly well-known technologist, is reported in major Chinese medias of China and abroad (click here for official citation and public release in Chinese media and press by Office of Prof. Willie W. Lu).

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