Siavash Alamouti Explained

Siavash Alamouti
Birth Place:Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Citizenship:US, Canada
Alma Mater:Kharazmi Highschool
Sharif UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
Occupation:Business executive
Executive Vice President of Innovation R&D at Wells Fargo
Boards:Mimik (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. 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.[14] [15]

He was awarded the 2022 Marconi Prize.

Alamouti's code

He invented a 2xN MIMO scheme which today is referred to as the Alamouti's code (or Alamouti code).[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]

Notes and 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. 10.1109/49.730453.
  2. Web site: Alamouti Code - an overview. 2022-02-10. ScienceDirect Topics.
  3. Web site: 12 February 2014. Siavash Alamouti. 2022-02-10. IEEE.
  4. Fettweis. Gerhard. February 2014. 5G – Personal Mobile Internet Beyond What Cellular Did to Telephony. IEEE Communications Magazine. 52 . 2 . 140–145 . 10.1109/MCOM.2014.6736754 . 16674433 .
  5. Web site: Sharif University of Technology.
  6. Web site: UBC 1992 Spring Alamouti Siavash.
  7. Web site: Siavash Alamouti on How Technology Can Empower the Oppressed. . February 2016 .
  8. Web site: Waddell. Nick. January 27, 2010. Waiting on a Leader: Vancouver's Tech History. CanTech Letter.
  9. Web site: 2022-02-09. Interview with Siavash Alamouti: ECE Alumni, Communications Changemaker, and Marconi Prize Winner. 2022-02-10. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. en-US.
  10. Web site: Gregson. Reily. March 3, 1997. McCaw's Project Angel Given Life By AT&T Wireless Services. RCR Wireless.
  11. Web site: Method for frequency division duplex communications.
  12. Web site: Wieland. Ken. June 8, 2009. HSPA no threat to WiMAX, says Intel. telecoms.com.
  13. Web site: Monte. Leslie D.. December 17, 2009. 3G Vs 4G: Intel pushes for WiMAX. Rediff.com.
  14. Web site: March 2, 2010. Vodafone Appoints Siavash Alamouti as Group Research and Development Director. Mobile World Live.
  15. News: Memarian. Jahandad. 7 March 2018. Siavash Alamouti on How Technology Can Empower the Oppressed. en. Medium.
  16. Web site: MIMO Space Time Block Coding and Alamouti Codes.
  17. Book: Wei Bai. Jingxing Fu. Kim. Younghak. 2005 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications . A Full Diversity Full Rate 4-Antenna Alamouti Code . 2005. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1651401. 1 . 72–76. 10.1109/PIMRC.2005.1651401. 978-3-8007-2909-8 . 206511252 .
  18. S.M. Alamouti. A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 1451 - 1458. 16. 8. October 1998. 10.1109/49.730453.
  19. Tarokh. Vahid. Seshadri. Nambi. Calderbank. A. R.. amp. 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. 10.1.1.112.4293. 10.1109/18.661517.
  20. Tarokh. Vahid. Jafarkhani. Hamid. Calderbank. A. R.. July 1999. Space–time block codes from orthogonal designs. dead. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 45. 5. 744–765. 10.1.1.138.4537. 10.1109/18.771146. 11818617 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091229160912/http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~math800/W03/papers/TrkhJafarkCldb_IT99.pdf. 2009-12-29.
  21. Web site: IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award Recipients. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) . https://web.archive.org/web/20211216193827/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/sumner-rl.pdf . dead . December 16, 2021 .

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