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Encinitas, CA, US

Riyadh, SA

Tucson, Arizona, US

Carlsbad, CA, US

Carlsbad, CA, US

Advancing mm-wave Automotive Radar and Boosting 5G Coverage using beamforming/steering front end and antenna technologies.

Tucson, AZ, US

Polyceed mission is to deliver low-cost plug-and-play wire-free smart windows by targeting the global $90B low-e glass window market to lower energy consumption and interface with smart homes/buildings/cities. Polyceed follows the Fabless business model by franchising the simple and low-cost manufacturing process to regional owners.

US

• Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer responsible for Rayspan Advanced Technology, Product Design& Development, and Intellectual Property departments.
• Key contributor in the Design, Development and Commercialization of metamaterial RF systems and Antennas.
• Built world class RF team in Antenna Design, Passive and Active RF circuit design which commercialized metamaterial technology in less than one year.
• Before inception, identified metamaterial design concept as potential technology to implement in wireless communication devices. Interfaced with key researchers in this field to identify best suitable partners.
• Obtained exclusive license to UCLA metamaterial patents and funded projects to continue university development.
• Secured key innovations that overcame UCLA limitations to enable successful commercialization of metamaterial technologies.

• San Diego Research Center, Inc is a privately held company focusing on wireless communications for defense applications.
• Led, contributed, and drafted proposals for government grants.
• Leader of the Advanced Communication Research group consisting of eight system and software engineers and three RF consultants focusing on:
• Peer-to-peer 4x4 mobile MIMO: Technology and systems for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Office of Naval Research (ONR). Main research areas: high-mobility, channel estimation, adaptive modes.
• Urban Area Channel Measurements (DARPA): Near ground channel estimation and measurements in dense urban areas for indoor/indoor, indoor/outdoor, and outdoor/outdoor communication between small robots at 400 MHz, 1 GHz.
• Low-Power Sensor Networks (DARPA): Design and development of low-power wake-up transceiver for wireless sensor network supporting thousands of nodes.

San Diego, California, US

• Cubic (DARPA/DOTS): Designed an optical communication system operating by retro-modulation, developed the communication protocol, modeled turbulence effects on optical signal propagation (scintillation and Beam Wander).
• Broadband Networks: Licensed and unlicensed microwave, High-Frequencies 60-80 GHz, UNII bands, ISM bands, IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, ad-hoc networking, ATM, SONET, IP/QoS, Ethernet, MPLS, Queuing algorithms.
• Previous Product development - Terrestrial FSO Atmospheric Simulation, Simulight™: Developed and implemented a proprietary simulation model for wireless optical signal propagation in clear, rain, haze, fog and low.

• Responsible of integrating the company’s three main product lines: layer2/Diffserv/MPLS/layer3 switching, Free-Space Optics and microwave products to build metro/access IP-based mesh networks, IEEE802.11a and.
• Closely working with the three engineering teams (optical, communication and networking) to guarantee seamless products integration from the physical layer to the Network and management layers,
• Presenting the company to top prestigious customers, investors, meetings and conferences,
• Setting the company present, near term and future networking and communications technologies,
• Contributed with one patent.

• Developed an optimal multiplexing algorithms that requires at most two-packets delay.
• Designed queuing systems for multiplexing multiple MPEG program elementary streams and transport streams: Optimal transport stream utilization of channel bandwidth and Statistical Multiplexing of transport streams.
• Rate 5/6 8-PSK modulation and demodulation for higher channel utilization.
• Carried out end-to-end system analysis for transport stream overhead and system delay optimization.
• DVB super-scrambling of MPEG transport streams. Encoding and decoding Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) data.

• Designed and developed wireless systems (optical and microware) and integrated them within customers’ networks,
• Authored all company proposals, reports and contacts with SBIR/BMDO phase I, Phase II and state funding programs,
• Wrote the company’s first business plan summary and presentations, and aggressively pursed external funding,
• Interfaced to the company top customers -- wrote white papers and addressed all product questions, concerns and technical issues,
• Contributed two patents on the hybrid optical and microwave technology, and high-speed wireless communication.

Ph.D., Physics

Master Program, Electrical Engineering, Communication Theory And Systems

Master'S Degree, Physics