Dr. Andrew Viterbi currently serves as president of the Viterbi Group, LLC, a company founded in 2000, which advises and invests in startup companies, predominantly in wireless communications, network infrastructure and imaging.

In July 1985, Viterbi co-founded QUALCOMM Incorporated, a developer and manufacturer of mobile satellite communications and digital wireless telephony, where he served as vice chairman until 2000 and as chief technical officer until 1996. Under his leadership, QUALCOMM received international recognition for innovative technology in the areas of digital wireless communication systems and products based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technologies. Previously, in 1968, Viterbi co-founded LINKABIT Corporation, a digital communications company, where he served as executive vice president and later as president.

From 1963 to 1973, Dr. Viterbi was professor in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he did fundamental work in digital communication theory and wrote numerous research papers and two books, for which he has received international recognition. He continued teaching on a part-time basis at the University of California, San Diego until 1994, where he is currently professor emeritus. In 2001, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology invited him to become a distinguished visiting professor of Electrical Engineering.

From 1957 to 1963, Viterbi was a member of the Communications Research Section of the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While there, he was one of the first communication engineers to recognize the potential and propose digital transmission techniques for space and satellite telecommunication systems.

Viterbi received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1962.

Dr. Viterbi has received numerous awards and recognition for his leadership and substantial contributions to communications theory and its industrial applications over the years. He has received honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Canada, Italy and Israel and has been otherwise honored in Japan, Germany, Italy and the United States. He is a fellow of the IEEE, a Marconi Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1997 until 2001, he served as a member of the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, and since 1983, on the MIT Visiting Committee for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is currently a trustee of the University of Southern California, a board member of the Burnham Institute and the Scripps Cancer Center in La Jolla, a trustee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, and a member of the UC President's Council for the National Laboratories.