Siavash Alamouti

Siavash Alamouti received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He is currently an entrepreneur helping build new companies focused on hybrid edge cloud. He has been the executive chairman of mimik Technology Inc. since 2010 and was the CEO of the company from 2014 to 2020. He was the EVP of R&D at Wells Fargo from 2020 to 2021 and Group R&D Director for Vodafone from 2010 to 2013. From 2004 to 2010 he was an Intel Fellow and the CTO of the Mobile Wireless Group. Prior to joining Intel, he held engineering positions at various companies including Vivato, Cadence Design Systems, AT&T, and MPR Teltech. His current research has been focused on edge cloud computing, cloud decentralization, data sovereignty, and open Internet. He is most well known for the invention of the Alamouti Code. He has received more than 20.000 citations for his scientific work and has received multiple industry awards including the 2022 Marconi Prize and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. His 1998 paper in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications was selected by IEEE Communication Society for publication in The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research.