Kuntal Chowdhury, NVIDIA
With nearly 30 years of experience in the technology sector, Mr. Kuntal Chowdhury is a seasoned senior executive and entrepreneur. He led product management, business strategy, standards, fund raising, M&A, and strategic partnerships at large corporations and startups. He is currently the AI-RAN and 6G Technology Evangelist at NVIDIA, where he enables researchers and innovators to leverage NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform for 6G with NVIDIA’s Aerial based AI-native RAN platform and NVIDIA’s Omniverse, Sionna based network simulation engines.
Before joining NVIDIA, he founded BlueFusion, a company that is fueling AI with multi-modal sensor fusion software. His prior experiences include leading AI and Analytics at Mavenir, where he grew a portfolio of telco AI applications and a telco-grade cloud-native platform for 5G and enterprise markets. He co-founded and lead product management at Altiostar, a pioneer in open and virtualized RAN technology. In his illustrious career, Mr. Chowdhury served various leadership positions at Cisco Systems, Starent Networks, Nortel Networks, Motorola and Glenayre. Mr. Chowdhury holds a MSEE degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas and a BSEE degree from National Institute of Technology, Surat India. He has 60+ granted patents and has over 100 inventions filed.