Spotlighting InterDigital Inventors Driving Video Efficiency and Wireless Connectivity
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Featured Leaders
Our global team of dedicated engineers and researchers plays a vital part in InterDigital’s R&I work. The featured leaders on this page represent just a few of the many critical innovators making InterDigital’s work possible.
Milind Kulkarni
Head of Wireless Lab
Milind has over 35 years of experience in wireless network innovation, including projects for Nokia, Motorola, NASA, and Honeywell. Now the Head of InterDigital's Wireless Lab, Milind leads our research and standards development for current and next-generation networks. He plays a critical part in guiding InterDigital's 6G vision and advocating for it at key events like Mobile World Congress (MWC) and 6GSymposium.
Lionel Oisel
Head of Video Lab
Lionel joined InterDigital after our 2019 acquisition of Technicolor, bringing years of video R&I experience to the team. He now leads InterDigital's Video Lab in its mission to optimize the end-to-end video value chain. Driving technologies that promote efficient distribution, creation, and consumption of media, Lionel is especially focused on streaming improvements, compression for immersive experiences, and new potentials for haptics.
Jaideep Chandrashekar
Head of AI Lab
Prior to joining InterDigital, Jaideep led machine learning and data processing research at Technicolor and contributed to networking projects at Intel Labs. He brings this expertise to his role as Head of InterDigital's AI Lab, where he leads us in exploring how artificial intelligence can improve wireless and video technology in today's standards and contribute to emerging technologies in the years to come.
Featured Inventors
Martino Freda
Principal Engineer, Wireless Lab
One of two recipients of InterDigital's 2025 Inventor of the Year award, a 3GPP delegate and contributor, and a pivotal part of our wireless research since 2006, Martino is an innovator in bandwidth management, device-to-device communication, and IoT. His inventions include improvements to device-to-network communications that enable high-data applications like video streaming. Martino is now focused on helping us drive the transition to 6G.
Philippe Bordes
Principal Scientist, Video Lab
Philippe is a leader at our Rennes Video Lab, and a 2025 recipient of InterDigital's Inventor of the Year award. His inventions have touched Blu-Ray, HEVC and VVC standards, and Referral Picture Rescaling (RPR), helping video playback reduce bandwidth without compromising quality. Philippe continues to advance video compression standards and sees great potential in AI as a tool for the next generation of invention.
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