Behrooz Abdi
President and CEO, InvenSense

Biography

Mr. Behrooz Abdi has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Invensense, Inc. since October 24, 2012. Mr. Abdi served as an Executive Vice President and General Manager for MPS/CPS business at NetLogic Microsystems Inc. since November 2009 to December 09, 2011. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of RMI Corporation from November 2007 to October 2009. He served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm’s CDMA Technologies (QCT) of Qualcomm, Inc. from March 2004 to November 2007. Mr. Abdi held leadership and engineering positions of increasing responsibility at Motorola in its Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS). From July 1985 to December 2003, he served at Motorola as Vice President and General Manager for the Radio Products Division, in charge of RF and mixed signal ICs for the wireless mobile market, where he led Motorola to its number one market position in RF ICs. Mr. Abdi is a seasoned veteran with over 22 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, has a proven track record of growing profitable businesses at Qualcomm, Inc. and Motorola SPS (now Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.). He served as the Chairman and Director of SMSC Storage, Inc. He has been a Director of Exar Corp. since September 26, 2012. He serves as a Director of RMI Corporation. He has been a Director of Invensense, Inc. since June 2011. He served as a Director of Tabula, Inc. since April 6, 2010. Mr. Abdi holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University and Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Abstract

The last decade has witnessed the integration of many devices into the smart phone. Digital music players, gaming devices, digital cameras and camcorders, personal navigation devices, and personal media players, have all but turned into apps running on the smart phone. While this is in large part due to advances in compute and storage capabilities, more capable sensors have also contributed to this transformation. Increasingly capable image sensors, microphones, GPS, and inertial sensors, have turned the smart phone into a sensor rich platform, collecting and transmitting ambient data. This presentation will explore the new world of ambient computing brought about by new sensor rich platforms that will bring about new capabilities and business models in every aspect of our lives.