Siavash Alamouti

Siavash Alamouti is an Iranian engineer and an Intel fellow who is best known for the invention of the so-called Alamouti space–time block code [cite journal|author=S.M. Alamouti|title=A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications|journal=IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications|pages=1451–1458|volume=16|issue=8|date=October 1998|url=http://www.stanford.edu/~leipoo/ee359/alamouti_1.pdf|doi=10.1109/49.730453|format=Dead link|date=May 2008] , filed in 1997 and patented jointly with Vahid Tarokh. [cite web|title=United States Patent No. 6,185,258|org=United States Patent and Trademark Office|author=Siavash Alamouti and Vahid Tarokh|url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,185,258.WKU.&OS=PN/6,185,258&RS=PN/6,185,258|accessdate=2006-03-02] Alamouti's code is a 2 transmit antenna space-time block code and has been adopted in various global standards.

In 2002, the IEEE Communications Society recognized him as the author of one of the 57 most important papers in all society's transactions during the past 50 years.

Siavash M. Alamouti received the B.S. and the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1989 and 1991, respectively.

He is an Intel Fellow in the Mobility Group and chief technology officer of the Mobile Wireless Group, responsible for all wireless standards with a product roadmap at Intel. This includes the WiMAX Forum, IEEE 802.16, 3GPP, OMA, WiFi Alliance and IEEE 802.11. He is also known as the technical champion of WiMAX technology at Intel.

Prior to joining Intel in 2004, Alamouti worked for Vivato, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, AT&T Wireless Services and MPR Teltech Ltd. in various engineering roles.

He is recognized by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the best 57 papers in the last 50 years of the Society's history. He is most well known for the invention of "the Alamouti code" which is included in a number of wireless standards.

Alamouti holds over 20 patents in the areas of wireless communication applications and wireless systems design. He has authored many publications and technical reports in the last decade for the IEEE Communications Society and other organizations that have reached professional audiences both nationally and internationally.

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