Jinsung (Alex) Choi

Principal Fellow, SoftBank and Chair of the Board of Directors at AI-RAN Alliance

Speaker

Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi
Chair of the AI-RAN Alliance and Principal Fellow, SoftBank Corp.’s Research Institute of Advanced Technology

Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, a South Korean luminary in the global mobile telecommunications sector, boasts over three decades of industry experience. Currently, Dr. Choi is working at SoftBank Corp.’s Research Institute of Advanced Technology and continues to champion innovation at the intersection of AI, mobile technology, and network architecture. He is also currently the Chair of the AI-RAN Alliance. He is dedicated to advancing technology frontiers, crafting strategies that enhance both business and consumer experiences, and guiding the industry toward a more connected, intelligent, and open future.

Previous to his role at SoftBank, he worked for Deutsche Telekom AG as Group CTO for the first 4 years, and then as the leader of T-Labs for about 3 years. He was the founding chair of Telecom Infra Project (TIP) back in 2016-2017, and was the Chair of the O-RAN ALLIANCE in 2022-2024, steering the shift of radio access networks towards more open and intelligent frameworks. His career in leadership began at LG Electronics, where he notably served as the Head of the Mobile Core Technology Lab and the Next Generation Telecommunications Lab from 1998 to 2011. He later joined SK Telecom in South Korea as the CTO and Head of both the Corporate R&D Division and the Technology Strategy Office, where he spearheaded the development of pioneering ICT technologies, including 5G, AI/ML, cloud solutions, Software Defined RAN, and autonomous networks. He earned his MS/Ph.D. in Mobile Networks from the University of Southern California (USC) between 1993 and 1998. Prior to this, he completed a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Seoul National University from March 1983 to February 1987.