Mohammed Nafie

Mohammed Nafie received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) from Cairo University in 1991, the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) from the King’s College, University of London, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1999, where his research interests were in the area of low complexity detection algorithms. After his graduation, he joined the Wireless Communications Laboratory, DSPS Research and Development Center of Texas Instruments. He was a primary contributor in TI’s effort in the IEEE wireless personal area networks standardization process. In 2001, he joined Ellipsis Digital Systems, where he was responsible for the development of the Physical Layer (PHY) of 802.11b wireless LAN standard. He has also participated in designing and optimizing the PHY of the 802.11a standard. In 2002, he has co-founded SySDSoft, a company specializing in the design of wireless digital communication systems. He was the Chief Technology Officer of SySDSoft till December 2006. He is currently a Professor with the Communications and Electronic Department, Cairo University, and also affiliated with Newgiza University. He has published numerous journal and conference papers, and has 19 issued U.S. patents as well as few others pending. He has several patents in Europe and Japan as well. His research interests are in the area of wireless and wireline digital communications and digital signal processing, and include equalization, LDPC coding, MIMO, and relaying systems among others.