Azzedine Touzni is a Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm, Inc. in San Diego, CA.  In recent years, his contributions have been focused on system software compute design, occupying a dual role of defining platform architecture and supporting commercial development.  Focusing equally on hardware and software design, his primary role is to lead CPU/DSP/infrastructure technologies teams, as well as to define technology roadmaps.
Although his recent contributions have been primarily to the design of top-tier mobile phones, he has also contributed to the product definition of Internet of Things devices and heterogenous compute products. He pioneered the first 64-bit Android smart phone, as well as other technological breakthroughs in system-on-chip security and infrastructure.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Azzedine worked on a wide range of IC products in technical leadership and management roles in both start-ups and large technology companies, leading world-class system algorithm, firmware, and software organizations. He was influential in the standardization of new modulation techniques for wide-band RF spectrum receivers adopted by the Advanced Television Systems Committee and the Federal Communications Commission. He also defined and designed one of the first heterogenous integrated application processors with wide-band receivers in the industry.
Azzedine was a Fellow at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, in the Electrical Engineering department. He was also affiliated with INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique) in Paris, France.  He holds a Ph.D. in Statistical Estimation Theory from the UCP/CNRS UMR8051, Paris, France, and a master’s degree from the ENSEA (École Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications), Paris, France.
Azzedine has authored more than 40 papers and contributed to and co-authored technical books. He holds over 60 patents, primarily in signal processing and integrated system design.