About

Nawal Kishor Mishra is a Senior Staff Manager at Qualcomm with over 15 years of experience in the wireless industry. He is an experienced software professional who has worked extensively on firmware and low-level programming for CDMA, 4G, WIFI, speech, audio, and video codecs on various DSPs. Nawal has formed and mentored teams that have been critical in delivering WIFI 6 and WIFI 7 solutions for mobile and Access Point on Qualcomm platform. Nawal's recent contributions include the successful delivery of industry-leading 11ax (High Efficiency WiFi) MU-MIMO & OFDMA Access Point and Client solutions that enabled Qualcomm to extend WiFi leadership. He has a strong engineering background with a Master of Engineering focused in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Nawal's areas of expertise include DSP and firmware programming, CDMA, LTE, and WLAN standards, good knowledge and hands-on experience in video codecs (H.264, MPEG4), and audio codecs (MP3, EAAC+, Vorbis, FLAC, Dolby). He is proficient in C, MATLAB, Assembly coding, C optimization, and floating-point to fixed-point coding for power/performance optimizations. Nawal has exceptional understanding of statistical signal processing and different Machine Learning algorithms. Nawal has strong lead/managerial skills, including people skills, recruiting talent and talent management/performance reviews, strong project execution, and across-site coordination. He has experience in building teams from the ground-up and sustaining them to deliver on complex technologies, collecting and translating requirements, defining strategy and planning, and customer focus/strong technical focus and hands-on approach when required. Nawal's past experience includes working as a Staff Engineer and Lead Engineer Sr. at Qualcomm, where he worked in Modem LTE FW team, responsible for customer support, bring-up related activities, and implementing new features to improve the performance of existing solutions. Nawal's education history includes a Master of Engineering in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Bhagalpur College of Engineering. Nawal's tech stack includes Mobile, ML, and Senior Software Engineer, and he has relevant experience of 16.45 years.