Ahmed F. Shalash

Dr. Shalash has more than 28 years of industrial experience in the semiconductors and communications industry. Prior to Wasiela Semiconductors, Dr Shalash served as the Director of Systems Engineering, Firstpass Technologies where he led a team working on system design for wireless RF technologies. Prior to that Dr. Shalash worked as Principal Engineer with Analog Devices Inc, where he led work on numerous products. During his tenure with ADI, Dr. Shalash also worked as a standards committee liaison with the ANSI T1 and the ITU, where he helped shape the VDSL and ADSL standards. Dr. Shalash published many articles in international forums. He has 10 journal papers, 40 conference papers and more than 50 published articles inside ADI and on behalf of ADI. Dr. Shalash has 7 patents. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Hisham M. Hamed

Hisham M. Hamed received the B.Sc with Honors in 1989, the MSc. in 1994, and the PhD. in 2002, all in Electronics and Electronic Communications, from the faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. He was the VLSI Department Manager at the R&D center, IEP, (Bahgat Group), from April 15th 2001 to Feb 2003, were he supervised the design of an MPEG decoder chip. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Electronics at the National Telecommunications Institute (NTI) in April 23rd 2003, where he teaches graduate courses in DSP. He also teaches senior level undergraduate courses in electronics, at the Institute of Aviation Engineering and Technology, Cairo. From November 2005 to Feb. 2007 he was a consultant for SySDSoft, where he was involved in developing the baseband PHY, as well as the hardware design, for a BlueTooth 2.0 chip Dr. Hamed has 20 years of experience in circuit design, both analog and digital, and his research interests include hardware implementations of DSP algorithms for communications applications, and physical layer hardware design for wireless communications systems.