Harinath Garudadri

Harinath Garudadri serves as Research Scientist at the Qualcomm Institute of Calit2, UCSD, transitioning from a distinguished industry career to focus on advancing healthcare technology accessibility. His extensive background spans over four decades, beginning with his education from IIT Bombay and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. His career includes 16 years at Qualcomm, where he made significant contributions to speech recognition and audio coding technologies. His impressive portfolio includes 40 granted patents across diverse fields including body area networks, audio processing, video technology, speech recognition, and biomedical signal processing, with an additional 14 pending patents. His current research focuses on healthcare innovation, particularly supporting clinical research for emerging hearing aids and developing technologies to reduce healthcare delivery costs. His work has been instrumental in creating solutions that extend medical care beyond hospital walls through low-power sensing, telemetry of physiological data, and reliable body area networks. His contributions have been widely implemented in commercial cell phones and networks, earning over 3,491 citations for his research publications. At UCSD, he continues to bridge the gap between academic research and practical healthcare solutions, focusing on biomedical signal processing and healthcare technology accessibility.