Siavash Alamouti
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Tehran, Iran
CitizenshipUS, Canada
Alma materKharazmi Highschool
Sharif University University of British Columbia
OccupationBusiness executive
TitleExecutive Vice President of Innovation R&D at Wells Fargo
Board member ofMimik (chair)

Siavash Alamouti is an Iranian-born business executive, and entrepreneur. and electrical engineer. He is the Executive Vice President of Innovation R&D at Wells Fargo, and the executive chairman of Mimik Technology, Inc. He is known for the 1998 invention of the Alamouti's code, a type of space–time block code.[1][2]

Early life and education

Siavash Alamouti was born on March 16, 1962, in Tehran, Iran.[3][4] He graduated from Kharazmi Highschool in 1979. He attended Sharif University of Technology[5] in 1980 for one year, and was expelled during the Iranian Cultural Revolution. Alamouti received B.A.Sc. (1989) and M.A.Sc. (1992) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia.[6]

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

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 (CDPD).[8][9]

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 United States’ first commercial OFDM/MIMO system, known as Project Angel.[10][11] He worked at several other companies prior to 2004, including Vivato, Cadence, McCaw Cellular, and MPR Teltech.[4] He was an Intel Fellow and the CTO of Mobile Wireless Group at Intel, starting in 2004. Alamouti supported Intel's Mobile WiMAX technology.[12][13]

Siavash Alamouti was the Group R&D Director at Vodafone Group from March 2010 until 2013.[4][14][15]

He was awarded the 2022 Marconi Prize.[9]

Alamouti's code

He invented a 2xN MIMO scheme which today is referred to as the Alamouti's code (or Alamouti code).[2][16][17] Alamouti’s October 1998 paper in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications (volume 16, number 8)[18] was selected by IEEE Communication Society for publication in, The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research (2007).

Alamouti's code provided some inspiration for the development of more valuable and 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. ↑ S.M. Alamouti (October 1998). "A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 16 (8): 1451–1458. doi:10.1109/49.730453.
  2. 1 2 "Alamouti Code - an overview". ScienceDirect Topics. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  3. ↑ "Siavash Alamouti". ieeexplore.ieee.org. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  4. 1 2 3 Fettweis, Gerhard (February 2014). "5G – Personal Mobile Internet Beyond What Cellular Did to Telephony". IEEE Communications Magazine. 52 (2): 140–145. doi:10.1109/MCOM.2014.6736754. S2CID 16674433.
  5. ↑ "Sharif University of Technology".
  6. ↑ "UBC 1992 Spring Alamouti Siavash". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  7. ↑ "Siavash Alamouti on How Technology Can Empower the Oppressed". HuffPost. February 2016.
  8. ↑ Waddell, Nick (January 27, 2010). "Waiting on a Leader: Vancouver's Tech History". CanTech Letter.
  9. 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.
  10. ↑ Gregson, Reily (March 3, 1997). "McCaw's Project Angel Given Life By AT&T Wireless Services". RCR Wireless.
  11. ↑ "Method for frequency division duplex communications".
  12. ↑ Wieland, Ken (June 8, 2009). "HSPA no threat to WiMAX, says Intel". telecoms.com.
  13. ↑ Monte, Leslie D. (December 17, 2009). "3G Vs 4G: Intel pushes for WiMAX". Rediff.com.
  14. ↑ "Vodafone Appoints Siavash Alamouti as Group Research and Development Director". Mobile World Live. March 2, 2010.
  15. ↑ Memarian, Jahandad (7 March 2018). "Siavash Alamouti on How Technology Can Empower the Oppressed". Medium.
  16. ↑ "MIMO Space Time Block Coding and Alamouti Codes".
  17. ↑ Wei Bai, Jingxing Fu; Kim, Younghak (2005). "A Full Diversity Full Rate 4-Antenna Alamouti Code". 2005 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications. Vol. 1. pp. 72–76. doi:10.1109/PIMRC.2005.1651401. ISBN 978-3-8007-2909-8. S2CID 206511252.
  18. ↑ S.M. Alamouti (October 1998). "A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications" (PDF). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 16 (8): 1451–1458. doi:10.1109/49.730453.
  19. ↑ Tarokh, Vahid; Seshadri, Nambi & Calderbank, A. R. (March 1998). "Space–time codes for high data rate wireless communication: Performance analysis and code construction". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 44 (2): 744–765. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.112.4293. doi:10.1109/18.661517.
  20. ↑ Tarokh, Vahid; Jafarkhani, Hamid; Calderbank, A. R. (July 1999). "Space–time block codes from orthogonal designs" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 45 (5): 744–765. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.138.4537. doi:10.1109/18.771146. S2CID 11818617. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-29.
  21. ↑ "IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award Recipients" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).


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