Siavash Alamouti

Siavash Alamouti
Born1962 (age 63–64)
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
CitizenshipUS, Canada
EducationKharazmi Highschool
Sharif University
University of British Columbia (B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc.)
OccupationBusiness executive
TitleExecutive Chairman of Mimik Technology
Board member of
Mimik (chair)

Siavash Alamouti is an Iranian-born business executive, entrepreneur, and electrical engineer. He is the executive chairman of Mimik Technology,[1] and was previously the Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Wells Fargo from March 2020 to December 2021.[2] He is known for the 1998 invention of the Alamouti's code, a type of space–time block code.[3][4]

Early life and education

Siavash Alamouti was born in 1962 in Tehran, Iran.[5] He graduated from Kharazmi Highschool in 1979. He enrolled at Sharif University of Technology[6] in 1980, but was expelled during the Iranian Cultural Revolution due to his political views. He subsequently left Iran, living in Madrid, Spain, before arriving in Canada as a political refugee in 1984.[7] He received B.A.Sc. (1989) and M.A.Sc. (1992) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia.[8]

He holds dual citizenship of Canada and the United States.[7][9]

Alamouti started his professional career at MPR Teltech, part of BC Telephone Company (now Telus) in Vancouver, where he worked on early mobile data protocols, including cellular digital packet data.[10][11]

Career

In 1995, he joined McCaw Cellular (now AT&T Wireless) as a Senior Scientist, where he worked on the physical and MAC layer design of a commercial multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system known as Project Angel.[12][13] He later served as CTO of Vivato, the first smart-antenna Wi-Fi company, and held roles at Cadence Design Systems.[14] He was an Intel Fellow and the chief technology officer of the Mobile Wireless Group at Intel, starting in 2004. Alamouti supported Intel's Mobile WiMAX technology.[15][16]

Siavash Alamouti was the group research and development director at Vodafone Group from March 2010 to 2013.[5][17] He then served as president and CEO of mimik Technology from January 2014 until January 2020, after which he became the company's executive chairman.[18]

He was awarded the 2022 Marconi Prize.[11][7]

Alamouti's code

He invented a 2xN MIMO scheme, today referred to as Alamouti's code (or Alamouti code), designed in 1996 and published in 1998.[4][7]

Alamouti's code provided inspiration for the development of more general Space Time Block Codes by others, including Nambirajan Seshadri, Vahid Tarokh, Robert Calderbank, and Hamid Jafarkhani.[19][20] Tarokh, Jafarkhani and Alamouti received the 2013 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award "for contributions to block signaling for multiple antennas."[21]

References

  1. ↑ "Siavash Alamouti Marconi Fellow, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman".
  2. ↑ "Siavash Alamouti Marconi Fellow, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman".
  3. ↑ Alamouti, S.M. (October 1998). "A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 16 (8): 1451–1458. Bibcode:1998IJSAC..16.1451A. doi:10.1109/49.730453.
  4. 1 2 Clerckx, Bruno; Oestges, Claude (2013). "Space-Time Coding over I.I.D. Rayleigh Flat Fading Channels". Mimo Wireless Networks. pp. 173–236. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-385055-3.00006-7. ISBN 978-0-12-385055-3.
  5. 1 2 Fettweis, Gerhard; Alamouti, Siavash (February 2014). "5G: Personal mobile internet beyond what cellular did to telephony". IEEE Communications Magazine. 52 (2): 140–145. Bibcode:2014IComM..52b.140F. doi:10.1109/MCOM.2014.6736754.
  6. ↑ "Sharif University of Technology".
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Democratizing Internet Access: 2022 Marconi Prize Awarded to Wireless Innovator Siavash Alamouti". Marconi Society. February 9, 2022.
  8. ↑ UBC 1992 Spring Alamouti Siavash
  9. ↑ "Siavash Alamouti on How Technology Can Empower the Oppressed". HuffPost. February 2016.
  10. ↑ Waddell, Nick (January 27, 2010). "Waiting on a Leader: Vancouver's Tech History". CanTech Letter.
  11. 1 2 "Interview with Siavash Alamouti: ECE Alumni, Communications Changemaker, and Marconi Prize Winner". Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  12. ↑ Gregson, Reily (March 3, 1997). "McCaw's Project Angel Given Life By AT&T Wireless Services". RCR Wireless.
  13. ↑ "Method for frequency division duplex communications".
  14. ↑ "Advisors". BestNest.
  15. ↑ Wieland, Ken (June 8, 2009). "HSPA no threat to WiMAX, says Intel". telecoms.com.
  16. ↑ Monte, Leslie D. (December 17, 2009). "3G Vs 4G: Intel pushes for WiMAX". Rediff.com.
  17. ↑ "Vodafone Appoints Siavash Alamouti as Group Research and Development Director". Mobile World Live. March 2, 2010.
  18. ↑ "Siavash Alamouti Marconi Fellow, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman".
  19. ↑ Tarokh, V.; Seshadri, N.; Calderbank, A.R. (March 1998). "Space-time codes for high data rate wireless communication: performance criterion and code construction". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 44 (2): 744–765. Bibcode:1998ITIT...44..744T. doi:10.1109/18.661517.
  20. ↑ Tarokh, V.; Jafarkhani, H.; Calderbank, A.R. (July 1999). "Space-time block codes from orthogonal designs". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 45 (5): 1456–1467. Bibcode:1999ITIT...45.1456T. doi:10.1109/18.771146.
  21. ↑ "IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award Recipients" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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