With over 23 years in the cellular industry, Dr. Tripathi has been at the forefront of emerging wireless technologies. He has co-authored the cellular industry’s first-ever multimedia eBook on 5G as well as a textbook on Cellular Communications that is used at leading universities worldwide. Dr. Tripathi is a RAN delegate for Samsung at 3GPP and does research in next-generation technologies and applications of AI. As the 5G Technical Lead at Award Solutions, Dr. Tripathi led 5G initiatives on content development and content delivery. At Award Solutions, Dr. Tripathi developed content on 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular technologies and trained thousands of engineers and executives in the areas such as 5G, LTE-Advanced Pro (LTE-M/Cat-M, NB-IoT, LAA, and D2D/ProSe), LTE-Advanced, LTE, Radio and Core Networks, IMS, and RF Engineering. Dr. Tripathi designed and analyzed high-performance radio resource management (RRM) algorithms at telecom equipment manufacturers. His pioneering research on the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cellular networks at Virginia Tech has been published as a monograph and as part of a book on neuro-fuzzy applications. As an industry expert, he has contributed to Scientific American, FCC, CTIA, GSMA, EE Times University, and CNN Business. Dr. Tripathi is an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Tech, where he teaches cellular communications and guides students in their research projects.