Dr. Satapathy currently serves as Director of Technology Innovation & Architecture at
Sprint where he is responsible for RF Technology Strategy & Architecture for radio
networks systems (LTE & 5G) and support of related standards, regulatory and global
ecosystem activities. Dr. Satapathy has over 20 years’ experience with Sprint and
Clearwire combined, leading access and backhaul research and architecture development,
orchestrating key technology proof of concepts/demonstrations, vendor solutions development, technical contract negotiation, and technology/vendor selection.
Dr. Satapathy holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
His Ph.D. thesis addressed spectrum sharing and specifically resource utilization of unlicensed spectrum with
spectrum etiquettes. He is an IEEE Senior Member and his portfolio includes 59 USPTO patent awards and
publications in IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, and
IEEE Globecom. He has served as Chairman, IEEE 802.16 WiMAX Standards Task Group 4, and participated in
3GPP activities for LTE standards development. His wireless communications ecosystem activities include
serving as Industry Consortium Member for Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) project, Industry
Forum Exhibitions Program Chair for ICC2018, Panel Reviewer for NSF projects, Wireless Advisory Board
Member of Auburn University Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center, Industry Community Board
Member for IEEE COMSOC, NYU Wireless Industry Affiliates Board Member, etc. Further details are available at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/durgasatapathy