Dr. Alan Gatherer

Chief Technical Officer Communications Infrastructure
Texas Instruments

Alan Gatherer is the CTO for the Communications Infrastructure Business at Texas Instruments. He is responsible for all strategic development of TI’s digital baseband modems for 3G wireless infrastructure. Alan joined TI in 1993 and has worked on various digital modem technologies including cable modem, ADSL and 3G handset and basestation modems. He was elected to Senior Member of Technical Staff in 1996 and then to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2000. Alan also served as the manager of the wireless cellular communications group in R&D. Alan has authored seven journal papers and 22 conference papers and is regularly asked to give keynote and plenary talks at communication equipment conferences. In addition, he holds 38 awarded patents and is author of the book “The Application of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications.” Alan holds a bachelor of engineering in the area of microprocessor engineering from Strathclyde University in Scotland. He also attended Stanford University in California where he received a master’s in electrical engineering in 1989 and his doctorate in electrical engineering in 1993.