Vida Vakilian
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Experience
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NOVESH LLC
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United States
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Engineering Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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VP of Engineering
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Jun 2021 - Present
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California State University Channel Islands
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Professor
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Aug 2019 - Present
- Teaching courses in the field of electrical engineering, e.g., Digital Communications, Fields and Waves, Digital Design with VHDL, Signal and Systems.- Running a summer program in partnership with Chevron with the goal of encouraging the participation of women and minorities in the field of engineering.- Leading the Digital Signal Processing Laboratory.- Initiating an Women in Engineering Club for female undergraduate students.- Supervising number of undergraduate research projects.- Assisting with obtaining ABET accreditation for the Electrical and Computer Engineering programs.
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California State University, Bakersfield
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Professor
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Aug 2015 - Jul 2019
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Assistant Professor
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Aug 2015 - Jul 2019
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Lecturer
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Apr 2014 - Jul 2015
- Teaching Electrical Engineering courses, e.g., Digital Design with VHDL, Complex Analysis, Signal and Systems.
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University of California, Riverside
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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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.
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Research Assistant
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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.
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Teaching Assistant
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Jan 2011 - Apr 2011
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Co-op Engineer
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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.)
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Alcatel-Lucent
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Intern
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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.
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UC Davis
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United States
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Health, Wellness & Fitness
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1 - 100 Employee
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Visiting Scholar
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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.
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University Technology Malaysia
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Computer Networking Products
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Assistant
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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
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Education
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Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal
PhD, Electrical Engineering