Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Cayuga Wireless is an innovator of Wi-Fi solutions that optimizes performance through our proprietary and patented designs that unlock the potential capacity unused by current wireless technologies.

Dec 2016 – Dec 2023 · 7 yrs · San Francisco, CA

• Zenalyst uses machine learning technologies to analyze the world’s information. Our artificial intelligence platform is specifically designed to provide predictive analytics and also explain the reasons behind each forecast.
• ​We are charged with empowering our users to trade profitably and gain insights on the financial markets.
• My contributions include:
• Led the R&D and product prototyping via Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and web services.
• Continually sourced and scraped quality training data; utilized them through an in-house version-controlled ML training pipeline via GIT.
• Developed business opportunities with customer; managed company's operations, recruiting, and fund raising.

Feb 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Berkeley, California

• Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Affiliations:
• Swarm Lab, which brings together research in the field of ubiquitous (pervasive) distributed computing, communication, and control.
• Berkeley Wireless Research Center, an established pioneer and leader in research on wireless innovations.

Jan 2014 – May 2014 · 4 mos · Berkeley, California

• Co-mentor to entrepreneurial team in this MBA program.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2014 · 8 yrs

• Advanced Architecture and Research Group (now called Innovation Labs)
• Enterprise Networking, CTO Team
• Research and develop visionary architectures and strategies across Cisco
• Focus on emerging networking paradigms and wireless technologies: Fog Computing, Internet of Things, SDN, computing virtualization, data analytics, transport layer optimization, network coding, small cells, multiuser-MIMO
• Report directly to Dr. Flavio Bonomi, Cisco Fellow and VP
• Managed and supervised direct report for MU-MIMO research
• Wireless Networking Business Unit
• Researched and developed key functionalities and algorithms at the system and architectural level for Cisco’s IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN systems, including radio design of the flagship access point and Cisco’s 802.11 strategy
• Active participation in IEEE standards and WiFi certification bodies to define the protocols and requirements for industry-accepted wireless LANs
• Garnered awards from IEEE SA for my contributions to 11n and 11y
• Developed 11n PHY layer Matlab simulator for mandatory and optional MIMO-OFDM components, eg. STBC, beamforming, MU-MIMO
• Other responsibilities: MAC layer analysis and simulation; radio resource management and algorithm design; C/C++ software and firmware code development; determination of architecture roadmap, hardware and chip-level specifications; resolving customer issues; liaison with chipset vendors.
• Reported directly to Mr. Pat Calhoun, then CTO of business unit

Jan 2006 – Jan 2014 · 8 yrs

Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 · 0 mo

• Corporate Research and Development

Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 · 0 mo

• Wireless Networking Branch, Communications Systems Lab, DSP R&D Center

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

• Test & Analysis Tools, e-Business Application Framework
• Designed and implemented Java applications that perform full-cycle software testing in a distributed environment using TCP/IP
• Supervisor: Mr. Harm Sluiman (IBM Distinguished Engineer)
• Object Builder, Component Broker Toolkit
• Developed XML-based CORBA/EJB distributed computing models
• Data Access Builder (DAX), VisualAge Java/C++ (precursor of Eclipse)
• Implemented various components of IBM UDB (database) code-generation tool

Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 · 0 mo

• Radio Planning, Mobile Networks