I have known Shady when he was a wireless application engineer at Intel. We were colleagues in the same team that worked on link and system level simulations to develop and evaluate solutions for 5G wireless networks. Our team worked on small cell enhancement technologies, such as higher order modulation and small cell on-off switching. From my perspective as a colleague, Shady demonstrated the capability of coding, writing, and collaboration with other team members. Shady wrote C++ and MATLAB codes for both the link and system level simulators. He is also prepared the relevant 3GPP standard contribution documents, patent proposals, and conference papers including the outcomes of our research and performance evaluations. One of these publications was initiated by an idea of his to take our 3GPP evaluations of small cell on-off switching one further step to propose another algorithm that outperformed the previously proposed algorithms. I have also known Shady during our study for the M.Sc. at the American University in Cairo. He finished all the course work with a GPA of 4.00. I had the chance to work with Shady on two team projects for signal processing and numerical analysis courses, where Shady contributed a lot of ideas and hard work to achieve the full mark in both. He was also a teaching assistant for graduate courses, which are challenging courses in terms of content and graduate students’ expectations. He was a TA for an undergraduate lab, where supervision and teaching capabilities are necessary to help the undergraduate students. It is worth noting that Shady maintained his commitment to work for industry on both research and product levels after leaving Intel as he worked in IoT research lab of Orange (research deliverables were prioritized) and network virtualization in Avidbeam (product/proof of concept were required). Shady also has the capability of professional self-development while on full-time position. Shady finished the courses of his M.Sc. at the American University in Cairo and his M.Eng. at the University of British Columbia while working in full-time positions in Intel/AvidBeam and Microchip Technology Inc., respectively. This indicates his capability of learning new concepts while working. The courses he took also span across various areas such as communications, optics, machine learning, and integrated circuits. In Vancouver, BC, Canada, while pursuing his M.Eng. degree from UBC, Shady started working for Microchip Technology Inc. where he writes codes in Python to test and characterize ICs. Although I cannot closely assess Shady's performance in the current position, I noticed his flexibility with different programming languages such as Python (at Microchip Technology Inc.), MATLAB, and C++ (at Intel). Shady is cooperative, friendly, hardworking, and initiative taker. He has also demonstrated the capability to work in different companies and meet their research or product requirements.

I am proud to recommend Shady Elbassiouny for mixed-signal characterization work on complex semiconductor devices. Shady worked for me in the Data Center Solutions Product Engineering team at Microchip from Sept 2018 to Dec 2021. In his time at Microchip, Shady ramped up very quickly, taking a leadership role in the optimization and characterization of new 16nm IP, including PLLs, high-speed SERDES and DDR interfaces. Shady demonstrated creative problem-solving skills in driving for root cause for silicon performance issues and identifying fixes and improvements to ensure robust circuit performance across silicon process, voltage, and temperature. Shady demonstrated strong written and spoken communication skills by authoring high quality characterization reports and by sharing those reports with Tier 1 customers and internal teams. Shady has shown continuous professional growth and has demonstrated commitment to our business objectives by going above and beyond typical responsibilities expected of him. I would love to have him back on my team in the future, and in the meantime, I am proud to recommend him to anyone looking for a strong characterization lead. Bradley Buss Senior Manager Product Engineering Data Center Solutions Microchip Technology

I have known Shady when he was a wireless application engineer at Intel. We were colleagues in the same team that worked on link and system level simulations to develop and evaluate solutions for 5G wireless networks. Our team worked on small cell enhancement technologies, such as higher order modulation and small cell on-off switching. From my perspective as a colleague, Shady demonstrated the capability of coding, writing, and collaboration with other team members. Shady wrote C++ and MATLAB codes for both the link and system level simulators. He is also prepared the relevant 3GPP standard contribution documents, patent proposals, and conference papers including the outcomes of our research and performance evaluations. One of these publications was initiated by an idea of his to take our 3GPP evaluations of small cell on-off switching one further step to propose another algorithm that outperformed the previously proposed algorithms. I have also known Shady during our study for the M.Sc. at the American University in Cairo. He finished all the course work with a GPA of 4.00. I had the chance to work with Shady on two team projects for signal processing and numerical analysis courses, where Shady contributed a lot of ideas and hard work to achieve the full mark in both. He was also a teaching assistant for graduate courses, which are challenging courses in terms of content and graduate students’ expectations. He was a TA for an undergraduate lab, where supervision and teaching capabilities are necessary to help the undergraduate students. It is worth noting that Shady maintained his commitment to work for industry on both research and product levels after leaving Intel as he worked in IoT research lab of Orange (research deliverables were prioritized) and network virtualization in Avidbeam (product/proof of concept were required). Shady also has the capability of professional self-development while on full-time position. Shady finished the courses of his M.Sc. at the American University in Cairo and his M.Eng. at the University of British Columbia while working in full-time positions in Intel/AvidBeam and Microchip Technology Inc., respectively. This indicates his capability of learning new concepts while working. The courses he took also span across various areas such as communications, optics, machine learning, and integrated circuits. In Vancouver, BC, Canada, while pursuing his M.Eng. degree from UBC, Shady started working for Microchip Technology Inc. where he writes codes in Python to test and characterize ICs. Although I cannot closely assess Shady's performance in the current position, I noticed his flexibility with different programming languages such as Python (at Microchip Technology Inc.), MATLAB, and C++ (at Intel). Shady is cooperative, friendly, hardworking, and initiative taker. He has also demonstrated the capability to work in different companies and meet their research or product requirements.

I am proud to recommend Shady Elbassiouny for mixed-signal characterization work on complex semiconductor devices. Shady worked for me in the Data Center Solutions Product Engineering team at Microchip from Sept 2018 to Dec 2021. In his time at Microchip, Shady ramped up very quickly, taking a leadership role in the optimization and characterization of new 16nm IP, including PLLs, high-speed SERDES and DDR interfaces. Shady demonstrated creative problem-solving skills in driving for root cause for silicon performance issues and identifying fixes and improvements to ensure robust circuit performance across silicon process, voltage, and temperature. Shady demonstrated strong written and spoken communication skills by authoring high quality characterization reports and by sharing those reports with Tier 1 customers and internal teams. Shady has shown continuous professional growth and has demonstrated commitment to our business objectives by going above and beyond typical responsibilities expected of him. I would love to have him back on my team in the future, and in the meantime, I am proud to recommend him to anyone looking for a strong characterization lead. Bradley Buss Senior Manager Product Engineering Data Center Solutions Microchip Technology

I have known Shady when he was a wireless application engineer at Intel. We were colleagues in the same team that worked on link and system level simulations to develop and evaluate solutions for 5G wireless networks. Our team worked on small cell enhancement technologies, such as higher order modulation and small cell on-off switching. From my perspective as a colleague, Shady demonstrated the capability of coding, writing, and collaboration with other team members. Shady wrote C++ and MATLAB codes for both the link and system level simulators. He is also prepared the relevant 3GPP standard contribution documents, patent proposals, and conference papers including the outcomes of our research and performance evaluations. One of these publications was initiated by an idea of his to take our 3GPP evaluations of small cell on-off switching one further step to propose another algorithm that outperformed the previously proposed algorithms. I have also known Shady during our study for the M.Sc. at the American University in Cairo. He finished all the course work with a GPA of 4.00. I had the chance to work with Shady on two team projects for signal processing and numerical analysis courses, where Shady contributed a lot of ideas and hard work to achieve the full mark in both. He was also a teaching assistant for graduate courses, which are challenging courses in terms of content and graduate students’ expectations. He was a TA for an undergraduate lab, where supervision and teaching capabilities are necessary to help the undergraduate students. It is worth noting that Shady maintained his commitment to work for industry on both research and product levels after leaving Intel as he worked in IoT research lab of Orange (research deliverables were prioritized) and network virtualization in Avidbeam (product/proof of concept were required). Shady also has the capability of professional self-development while on full-time position. Shady finished the courses of his M.Sc. at the American University in Cairo and his M.Eng. at the University of British Columbia while working in full-time positions in Intel/AvidBeam and Microchip Technology Inc., respectively. This indicates his capability of learning new concepts while working. The courses he took also span across various areas such as communications, optics, machine learning, and integrated circuits. In Vancouver, BC, Canada, while pursuing his M.Eng. degree from UBC, Shady started working for Microchip Technology Inc. where he writes codes in Python to test and characterize ICs. Although I cannot closely assess Shady's performance in the current position, I noticed his flexibility with different programming languages such as Python (at Microchip Technology Inc.), MATLAB, and C++ (at Intel). Shady is cooperative, friendly, hardworking, and initiative taker. He has also demonstrated the capability to work in different companies and meet their research or product requirements.

I am proud to recommend Shady Elbassiouny for mixed-signal characterization work on complex semiconductor devices. Shady worked for me in the Data Center Solutions Product Engineering team at Microchip from Sept 2018 to Dec 2021. In his time at Microchip, Shady ramped up very quickly, taking a leadership role in the optimization and characterization of new 16nm IP, including PLLs, high-speed SERDES and DDR interfaces. Shady demonstrated creative problem-solving skills in driving for root cause for silicon performance issues and identifying fixes and improvements to ensure robust circuit performance across silicon process, voltage, and temperature. Shady demonstrated strong written and spoken communication skills by authoring high quality characterization reports and by sharing those reports with Tier 1 customers and internal teams. Shady has shown continuous professional growth and has demonstrated commitment to our business objectives by going above and beyond typical responsibilities expected of him. I would love to have him back on my team in the future, and in the meantime, I am proud to recommend him to anyone looking for a strong characterization lead. Bradley Buss Senior Manager Product Engineering Data Center Solutions Microchip Technology