Vida Vakilian

Director of Engineering at NOVESH LLC
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Westlake Village, California, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Engineering Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Engineering
      • Jun 2021 - Present

      Developing engineering and product standards, project management, system design and implementation, leading teams of engineers, training new engineers, control panel design and development. Developing engineering and product standards, project management, system design and implementation, leading teams of engineers, training new engineers, control panel design and development.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Associate Professor
      • Aug 2023 - Present

    • Assistant Professor
      • Aug 2019 - Jul 2023

      - Teaching courses in the field of mechatronics engineering, e.g., Industrial Automation, PLC Programming, Robotics, Digital System Design with VHDL, Signal and Systems.- Running summer outreach programs with the goal of encouraging the participation of women and minorities in the field of engineering.- Director of the Automation and Digital Manufacturing Laboratory.- Initiating the Women in Engineering Club for female undergraduate students.- Supervising number of undergraduate research projects.- Assisting with obtaining ABET accreditation for the Mechatronics Engineering program. Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Assistant Professor
      • Aug 2015 - Jul 2019

    • Assistant Professor
      • Aug 2015 - Jul 2019

    • Lecturer
      • Apr 2014 - Jul 2015

      - Teaching Electrical Engineering courses, e.g., Digital Design with VHDL, Complex Analysis, Signal and Systems.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
      • Apr 2014 - Jun 2015

      - Conducting research on signal processing architecture for next generation wireless communication systems, particularly millimeter-wave communication systems. -Proposed and designed a high rate space-time block code with low maximum-likelihood decoding complexity for MIMO systems equipped with reconfigurable antennas. - Conducting research on signal processing architecture for next generation wireless communication systems, particularly millimeter-wave communication systems. -Proposed and designed a high rate space-time block code with low maximum-likelihood decoding complexity for MIMO systems equipped with reconfigurable antennas.

    • Research Assistant
      • May 2009 - Jun 2014

      -Proposed and designed a novel block coding scheme for MIMO-OFDM systems equipped with reconfigurable antennas. The proposed scheme is capable of extracting diversity gains from multiple sources. -Proposed a new direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation algorithm for a single element reconfigurable antenna system.-Computed a closed-form expressions for the covariance matrix of reconfigurable antenna systems.

    • Teaching Assistant
      • Jan 2011 - Apr 2011

    • Co-op Engineer
      • Feb 2013 - Feb 2014

      - Algorithm design and implementation for emerging wireless communication systems. This includes development of signal processing algorithms for 3GPP standards-based cellular systems, link/system level simulation, design and analysis of advanced receivers for LTE/LTE-A. -Algorithms design for 3GPP release 11 features (such as EPDCCH, CoMP, etc.) - Algorithm design and implementation for emerging wireless communication systems. This includes development of signal processing algorithms for 3GPP standards-based cellular systems, link/system level simulation, design and analysis of advanced receivers for LTE/LTE-A. -Algorithms design for 3GPP release 11 features (such as EPDCCH, CoMP, etc.)

    • Telecommunications
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Intern
      • Aug 2012 - Dec 2012

      -Proposed a multi-carrier transmission scheme in order to overcome the intercarrier interference (ICI) problem in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. -Proposed a multi-carrier transmission scheme in order to overcome the intercarrier interference (ICI) problem in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems.

    • United States
    • Health, Wellness & Fitness
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Visiting Scholar
      • Apr 2011 - Sep 2011

      -Evaluated the performance of the space-time-state block-coded RE-MIMO system in the spatially correlated frequency-selective fading channels. -Studied the impact of angular spread and antenna beamwidth on the performance of a RE-MIMO system. -Compared the BER performance of the RE-MIMO system with that of MIMO-OFDM system in multipath fading channels. -Evaluated the performance of the space-time-state block-coded RE-MIMO system in the spatially correlated frequency-selective fading channels. -Studied the impact of angular spread and antenna beamwidth on the performance of a RE-MIMO system. -Compared the BER performance of the RE-MIMO system with that of MIMO-OFDM system in multipath fading channels.

    • Computer Networking Products
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Sep 2007 - May 2008

      - Design and implementation of a Switched-Beam Smart Antenna system using TI DSP and FPGA for WiMAX networks - Design and implementation of a Switched-Beam Smart Antenna system using TI DSP and FPGA for WiMAX networks

Education

  • Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal
    PhD, Electrical Engineering
    2009 - 2014

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