Summary
Changlong Xu is a Principal Engineer Manager based in Beijing with 11 years at Qualcomm and a two-decade-plus research career advancing 3G/4G/5G/6G air interfaces and industrial IoT. He combines deep algorithmic expertise—authoring 20+ first-author papers and 300+ US patents—with hands-on system prototyping, from LTE eNodeB implementations to AI-assisted eNodeB and dual-mode WCDMA/WiFi terminals. As a long-time 3GPP RAN1 delegate and contributor to IEEE 802.16m/802.22, many of his channel-coding and modulation designs have been adopted into international standards. He leads university research programs and standards promotion in Greater China, while also recruiting and growing R&D teams and coordinating complex multi-project resources. Not obvious from titles: he blends research leadership with market-facing technical promotion (IIoT/TSN/NR-U), making him effective at moving innovations from proposal to commercialization. His terse GitHub motto “fight goal” reflects a pragmatic, outcome-driven approach to solving hard wireless problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PostDoc, School of EEE, PostDoc, School of EEE at Nanyang Technological University
BS, ME, Ph.D, Communication and Information Systems, BS, ME, Ph.D, Communication and Information Systems at Southeast University