Carlos Cordeiro is an Intel Fellow and serves as the wireless chief technology officer in Intel’s client computing group. Cordeiro leads Intel’s global wireless connectivity standards and ecosystem team and is responsible for defining Intel’s next generation wireless connectivity technology strategy, ecosystem engagements, and regulatory planning. He has had a leading role in the technology development, standardization, and productization of various generations of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, having developed major technology innovations that are found in billions of wireless devices. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow and serves as the chairman of the board of directors of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that defines Wi-Fi.  

Due to his contributions to wireless communications, Cordeiro received several awards including the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s prestigious CTO of the Year Award, the IEEE Standards Medallion, the Intel Inventor of the Year Award, the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, and the IEEE New Face of Engineering Award. He is the co-author of two textbooks on wireless, published over 130 papers, and holds over 450 patents. He is the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine and has served as editor of various journals.