Speaker:
Ayman Naguib
Qualcomm Inc.,
Campbell, CA, USA
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Date: Wednesday July 15, 2009
Time: 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Main NU Building (B2) – Auditorium.

Biography

Ayman Naguib received the B.Sc. degree (with honors) and the M.S.EE degree in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and the M.S. degree in statistics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, in 1993 and 1996, respectively.

From 1996 to 2000, Ayman was a principal member of technical staff at AT&T Shannon Labs, where he pioneered the field space–time coding. From September 2000 to August 2002, he was with Morphics Technology, Inc., as a Technical Lead of Core Technology. In October 2002, he joined Qualcomm, Inc., Campbell, CA, where he is a Senior Staff Engineer with CR&D working on the development broadband wireless systems.

His paper 1998 JSAC paper on space time coding was selected by the IEEE Communication Society as one of the 50 fundamental papers published by the IEEE Communication Society. His 2003 JSAC paper won the best paper award. Ayman 15 issued US patents, 27 pending patent applications, and more than 50 conference and journal publications. Ayman served as an associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSATIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS from 2002 to 2007. In December 2006, Ayman was named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to space-time coding and signal processing and mobile broadband wireless

His current research interests include space–time coding, signal processing, and broadband wireless communications.