Employment Experience

• February 2005 - present: Senior Staff, Modem Technology Systems, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, California.
  
  • Working on the development of modems for a variety of UMTS/HSPA+ and CDMA phone systems. Interference Cancellation, RF impairment mitigation, Diversity algorithm development, architecture studies etc.
• January 2003 - January 2005: R&D Systems Engineer, Applied Wave Research, Inc., El Segundo, California.
  
  • Worked on the development of a Complex Envelope systems simulator, called VSS (part of the more well-known software Microwave Office) and in particular designed high level (systems) models for amplifiers, mixers, VCOs, PLLs, etc. as well as measurements for wireless standards (ACPR, EVM, etc.).
• July 2001 - November 2002: Staff Scientist, Broadcom Corp., El Segundo, California.
  
  • Worked on system design & simulation of integrated transceivers for wireless LANs and other applications.
• November 2000-June 2001: Member of Technical Staff, KimaLink Corp., El Segundo, California.
  
  • Worked on the design & measurement of RF components for high-performance ICs, mainly inductors.
• 1997-November 2000: Research Assistant at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
  
  • Worked on Kalman filter tracking and equalization of MIMO systems in frequency-selective fading channels.
  • Worked on the design of Joint Data & Channel Estimation algorithms, with little or no use of pilot symbols, for turbo-codes in wireless (specifically Correlated Rayleigh) Channels.
  • Worked in the areas of Constellation Labelling and Coding for Periodic Gaussian Channels.
• Summer 1997: Three month summer Internship, at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas.
  • Worked on the design of the AGC for the front end of a digital receiver for Wideband CDMA.
  • Developed methods for efficient simulation of the Rayleigh Fading Channel, using SPW.
• Spring-Summer 1993: Visiting Scholar at Technische Universitat Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
  
  • Worked on simulations of traffic systems using GPSS/H.