Lu Dai

Lu Dai is a Senior Director of Technical Standards at Qualcomm, spearheading semiconductor standards efforts and relationships with industry organizations. Lu was previously Senior Director of Engineering and led Qualcomm’s SOC design verification team and front-end methodologies and initiatives. He was also the Design Verification Lead responsible for multiple generations of Premium Tier chips at Qualcomm, including the Snapdragon 800 that powers the Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. 

Prior to Qualcomm, Lu was the Design Verification Lead for Cisco’s Gigabit Switching Business Unit, where he worked on multiple generations of Cat4k ASICs. He is the current Chair of Accellera and serves on the Board of Directors at RISC-V International and Si2.

Lu holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell, and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley.