Doug Castor

Vice-Chair, Technology Roadmap Working Group at Next G Alliance

Speaker

Douglas Castor is Vice President and Head of Wireless Research at InterDigital, where he leads the incubation and development of emerging technologies for wireless systems. He has more than 25 years of experience in the wireless industry, spanning technology strategy, product development, and research innovation across 3G through 6G mobile systems and Wi-Fi technologies.

Key focus areas under Doug’s leadership include AI-Native approaches for 6G RAN and services, performance enhancements through extreme MIMO and advanced coding techniques, the enablement of near-zero-power cellular modems, increased flexibility in quality-of-service architectures, and the integration of communication and computing systems.

Doug is an industry leader and holds elected positions as Co-Chair of the Next G Alliance Steering Committee and Vice-Chair of its Technology Roadmap Working Group. He is also a founder and leader of the 6G World 6G Symposium.

He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.