Siavash Alamouti

Siavash Alamouti is an Iranian-born business executive, 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]

Siavash Alamouti
Born1962 (age 59–60)
Tehran, Iran
CitizenshipUS, Canada
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Sharif University
OccupationBusiness executive
TitleExecutive Vice President of Innovation R&D at Wells Fargo
Board member ofMimik (chair)

Early life and education

Siavash Alamouti was born on March 16, 1962 in Tehran, Iran.[3][4] 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] While at Vivato, he championed fundamental changes to regulations in the unlicensed band to enable the use of smart antennas for WiFi.[12] He was an Intel Fellow and the CTO of Mobile Wireless Group at Intel, starting in 2004. Alamouti supported Intel's Mobile WiMAX technology.[13][14]

Siavash Alamouti was the Group R&D Director at Vodafone Group from March 2010 until 2013.[4][15][16]

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][17] and has been adopted in various wireless standards including WiFi and LTE and is included in billions of wireless devices.[18] Alamouti’s October 1998 paper in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications (volume 16, number 8)[19] was selected by IEEE Communication Society for publication in, The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research (2007).

Other people that worked with Alamouti's code, which includes research and refinement of code were Nambirajan Seshadri, Vahid Tarokh, Robert Calderbank, and Hamid Jafarkhani.[20][21] In 1999, Tarokh, Jafarkhani, and Calderbank, published a paper, categorized the Alamouti Code as a space-time block code, and generalized the code to more transmit antennas. In 2013, Alamouti, Tarokh, and Jafarkhani, received an IEEE Eric E. Sumner award for the invention of space-time-block codes.[22]

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. "Alamouti Code - an overview". ScienceDirect Topics. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  3. "Siavash Alamouti". ieeexplore.ieee.org. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  4. Fettweis, Gerhard (February 2014). "5G – Personal Mobile Internet Beyond What Cellular Did to Telephony". IEEE Communications Magazine.
  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".
  8. Waddell, Nick (January 27, 2010). "Waiting on a Leader: Vancouver's Tech History". CanTech Letter.
  9. "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. Summary of a Forum on Spectrum Management Policy Reform. National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Committee on Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options. National Academies Press. 17 May 2004. ISBN 978-0-309-16598-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. Wieland, Ken (June 8, 2009). "HSPA no threat to WiMAX, says Intel". telecoms.com.
  14. Monte, Leslie D. (December 17, 2009). "3G Vs 4G: Intel pushes for WiMAX". Rediff.com.
  15. "Vodafone Appoints Siavash Alamouti as Group Research and Development Director". Mobile World Live. March 2, 2010.
  16. Memarian, Jahandad (7 March 2018). "Siavash Alamouti on How Technology Can Empower the Oppressed". Medium.
  17. "MIMO Space Time Block Coding and Alamouti Codes".
  18. 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: 72–76. doi:10.1109/PIMRC.2005.1651401.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-29.
  22. "IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award Recipients".


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