Shlomo Rakib Explained

Shlomo Rakib
Birth Place:Israel
Citizenship:Dual: USA & Israel
Occupation:Electrical engineer
Alma Mater:Technion University
Discipline:Electrical engineering

Shlomo Rakib is an Israeli electrical engineer known for his work on Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) and other engineering topics.[1] He is the holder of several patents and co-founder and current Chief Technology Officer of Cohere Technologies, which he had co-founded with Ronny Hadani.[2] [3] He also co-founded Terayon in 1993.

Education

Rakib received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Technion University in Israel. The university's Shlomo Rakib Fellowship Fund is named after him.[4]

Career

In the 1980s, Rakib served as a communications engineer in the Israeli Navy. Rakib also served as Chief Engineer at the communications products company PhaseCom from 1981 to 1993. As part of PhaseCom, he developed data and telephony applications.[5]

Shlomo Rakib founded Terayon in 1993 with his brother Zaki Rakib (IPO in 1998).[6] [7] [8] The company initially sold modems before developing other types of broadband technology.[9] Rakib served as the company's president and CTOs.[10] [11]

Rakib invented Terayon's S-CDMA technology, which is a component of the DOCSIS 2.0 cable data specification used in cable modems.[6] [12] [13] As part of Terayon, he also developed data transmission methods utilizing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and S-CDMA.[14] Rakib resigned as Terayon's president in 2004.[15] The firm was acquired in 2007 by Motorola.[16]

In 2004, Rakib co-founded Novafora, a company that developed microprocessors for advanced video applications.[17] [18] The firm acquired semiconductor and microprocessor company Transmeta in 2009 before it eventually closed in the same year.[19] [20] [21] [22]

Rakib and Ronny Hadani co-founded Cohere Technologies in 2009.[23] [24] They met at one of Hadani's lectures about Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) at the University of Texas at Austin.[25] [26] [27] and founded the company after Rakib devised the idea to apply OTFS to wireless technology and signal processing.[25] [26] The firm focuses on wireless improvements using OTFS and the Delay-Doppler model to improve FDD/TDD spectrum performance.[26] [28] [29]

In 2012, Rakib founded Gainspeed, a company specializing in DAA (Distributed Access Architecture). The company was initially known as Cohere Networks before being renamed Gainspeed in 2013.[30] The firm was acquired by Nokia in 2016.

Selected publications

Rakib's work has been cited by other scholars over 600 times.[31] His work has also been cited in textbooks.[32] His notable works include:

Selected research

Rakib has been granted more than 50 patents during the last few decades.[33] [34] Notable patents include (among others):

See also

Notes and References

  1. Communications method employing orthonormal time-frequency shifting and spectral shaping. 2011-05-26. US. 8547988. Hadani. Ronny. Rakib. Selim Shlomo.
  2. Web site: Cohere Technologies' CEO Shlomo Rakib discusses OTFS and wireless modulation technology. FierceTelecom.
  3. Web site: Cohere software improves efficiency of mobile network. Telecom. Lead. February 2, 2021.
  4. Web site: Fellowships – PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2020.
  5. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1052303/000089843001500308/d10ka.txt
  6. Web site: Site not found.
  7. Web site: Terayon's quagmire. TheMarker com. Staff. TheStreet.
  8. Book: California Law Business. July 1998. Daily Journal Corporation.
  9. Web site: Double whammy in stock fraud case / Short sellers trash, then sue, Santa Clara tech firm. Reynolds. Holding. November 9, 2003. SFGATE.
  10. Book: CED. 1998. International Thomson Communications.
  11. Book: America's Corporate Finance Directory 2002. 9780872178984. September 2001. National Register.
  12. Web site: Selim Shlomo Rakib Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search. patents.justia.com.
  13. Web site: Shlomo Rakib | Technion Israel Institute of Technology - Academia.edu. technion.academia.edu.
  14. Book: Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents. November 1999. U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office.
  15. Web site: Shlomo Rakib resigns as Terayon president - Globes. October 3, 2004. en.globes.co.il.
  16. Web site: Motorola boosts TV tech with Terayon buy. Marguerite. Reardon. CNET.
  17. Web site: Novafora to buy once high-flying Transmeta for $256 million. November 17, 2008.
  18. Web site: Terayon Founders Helm Stealthy Startup. LR Cable News Analysis Jeff. Baumgartner. Senior. Editor. Light. Reading 8/16/2007. Light Reading.
  19. Web site: Novafora Burns Out. LR Cable News Analysis Jeff. Baumgartner. Senior. Editor. Light. Reading 8/7/2009. Light Reading.
  20. Web site: e8vk. www.sec.gov.
  21. Web site: Transmeta buyer Novafora goes under, says report. https://archive.today/20120730054939/http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4084135/Transmeta-buyer-Novafora-goes-under-says-report. dead. 2012-07-30. July 30, 2012. archive.ph.
  22. Web site: Cisco, Arris could regret allowing Nokia to become force in US cable. Rethink.
  23. Web site: 5TONIC Labs and Telefónica Successfully Test Cohere Technologies' 5G turboConnect™ Fixed Wireless Access. March 26, 2018. IMDEA Networks.
  24. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/03/25/cohere-raises-35m-for-expansion-new.html Cohere raises $35M for expansion, new wireless communications technology
  25. Web site: StackPath. www.mwrf.com.
  26. Web site: C Spire to test Cohere OTFS technology. FierceWireless. 6 December 2017.
  27. Web site: Cohere Technologies faces big competition as it vies for 5G air interface. FierceWireless. 6 March 2016.
  28. Web site: Cohere boasts spectrum and capacity multiplier for 4G, 5G. News Wire Feed Light. Reading 2/12/2020. Light Reading.
  29. Web site: The Mobile Network » A tale of Open RAN innovation from Cohere Technologies. 29 June 2020 .
  30. Web site: Cohere Becomes Gainspeed. Jeff Baumgartner 07. June 2013. Multichannel News. 7 June 2013.
  31. Web site: Salim Shlomo Rakib. scholar.google.com.
  32. Book: Broadband Access Technologies: ADSL/VDSL, Cable Modems, Fiber, LMDS. 9780071350600. 1999. McGraw-Hill.
  33. Web site: Google Patents. patents.google.com.
  34. Web site: Shlomo RAKIB | CEO . 2022-04-30.