Vida Vakilian

VP of Engineering at NOVESH LLC
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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, US

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Experience

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

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Assistant Professor
      • 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.

    • 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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