Inaki Berenguer
CEO and co-founder

Inaki holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University, UK,
and was a two-year Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, New York.

From July 1999 to January 2001, he was with Hewlett Packard, Brussels, Belgium. In January 2001, he joined the Wireless Division of STMicroelectronics, San Diego, CA, where he worked on a W-CDMA project until August 2001. In the summer of 2004 he worked at Intel Corp in NY designing advanced signal processing algorithms for video processors, and from September to the end of December 2004 he was a visiting research fellow at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ. Since January 2004 he is a research fellow with The Communications Innovations Institute (www.thecii.org), under the umbrella of the Cambridge-MIT Institute.

His research interests include communications theory and digital signal processing. Inaki also is the recipient of the British Council-La Caixa, Cambridge-MIT Institute, and Leonardo Da Vinci fellowships.

Michele Palazzi
CTO and co-founder

Michele received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genova, Italy in 1995.

From 1995 until 1998 he worked as a Digital/Mixed Signals IC designer for STMicroelectronics in Milan. During that time, he worked on a monolitic microcontroller/power H bridge IC and contributed to a chip for a compact disc player for automotive use. In 1998 and 1999, he worked as a verification designer on a superscalar x86 IC design in San Diego. From 1999 to 2003 he led the design of an ARM based CDMA2000 baseband IC and FPGA prototyping of a WCDMA handset digital baseband transceiver. He is currently working in San Diego, as the senior staff architect of the definition and implementation of a scalable read/write channel for hard drives.

His interests include computer architectures, system verification, advanced coding techniques and FPGA prototyping.

Stavros Tsiakkouris
COO and co-founder

Stavros received the B.S. degree, summa cum laude, in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2001, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 2002. He is now at Cambridge University reading for his PhD in Engineering.

In August 1999 Stavros joined Motorola Inc. and worked closely towards the functional integration of RF chipsets in the WCDMA system block used by a 3G prototype phone. From August 2001 to July 2002 he worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Wireless Telecommunications (CWT) at Virginia Tech where he contributed towards the design of a nationwide interoperable land mobile radio network. His research work concentrated on investigating a packet-switched inter-system interface for land mobile radio systems. In August 2002 he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Cyprus as part of the IST funded SEACORN project on Enhanced UMTS networks designing resource management mechanisms for next generation IP-based core networks.

His research interests include wireless networks and mobile computing. Stavros is a
recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, a Cambridge Commonwealth scholarship and a
Gledhill Research Fellowship.

Professor Xiaodong Wang - Columbia University
Director of Technology and co-founder

Xiaodong Wang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and applied mathematics (Highest Honor) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1992, the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1998.

From July 1998 to December 2001, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station. In January 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, as an Assistant Professor. His research interests fall in the general areas of computing, signal processing, and communications. Among his publications is a recent book entitled Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003). His current research focuses include Bayesian Monte Carlo signal processing, multiuser communication theory, and wireless communications.

He has received the 1999 NSF CAREER Award. He has also received the 2001 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY.

ProfessorJon Crowcroft - FIEE, FIEEE, FREng, FACM, University of Cambridge
Member of the Technical Advisory Board

Jon Crowcroft is the Marconi Professor of Networked Systems in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Prior to that he was Professor of networked systems at UCL in the Computer Science Department. His research interests lie in communications and multimedia systems, especially those that are Internet-related.

He is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the IEE, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was a member of the IAB; was general chair for the ACM SIGCOMM 95-99. He is on the editorial team for COMNET, and on the program committee for ACM SIGCOMM and IEEE Infocom. He has published 5 books - the latest is the Linux TCP/IP Implementation, published by Wiley in 2001.

Crowcroft is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for Microsoft Research, and has worked in industry with Bloomsbury Computer Consortium and Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bristol. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for 10 start-ups, including Ensim, Orchestream, Bandwiz, Nexthop, Interprovider, Endace and Corvil, among others. He also serves as a technical reviewer for corporate data network strategy for Ericsson and consults for Reuters, BBC, Nortel, Cisco and Ofcom.

Dr. Mohammad Madihian - FIEEE, Chief Patent Officer and Department Head, NEC Laboratories America
Member of the Technical Advisory Board

Mohammad Madihian received the Ph.D. Degree in Electronic Engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan, in 1983. In 1983, he joined NEC Central Research Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan, where he worked on research and development of Si and GaAs device-based digital as well as microwave and millimeter-wave monolithic IC's. In 1999, he moved to NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, and is presently the Chief Patent Officer, and Microwave & Signal Processing Department Head where he conducts PHY/MAC layer signal processing activities for high-speed wireless networks and personal communications applications.

He has authored or co-authored more than 130 scientific publications including 20 invited talks, and holds 35 Japan/US patents on device and circuit applications. Dr. Madihian has received the IEEE MTT-S Best Paper Microwave Prize in 1988, and IEEE Fellow Award in 1998. He holds 8 NEC Distinguished R&D Achievement Awards. He has served as Guest Editor to the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Japan IEICE Transactions on Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He is presently serving on the IEEE Speaker's Bureau, IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (CSICS) Executive Committee, IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference Steering Committee, IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Technical Program Committee, IEEE MTT-6 Subcommittee, IEEE MTT Editorial Board, and Technical Program Committee of International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM).

Dr Stefano Galli - Senior Scientist, Telcordia Technologies, and Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Sub-Committee on Power Line Communications.
Member of the Technical Advisory Board

Stefano Galli received his M.S. degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy) in 1994 and 1998, respectively.
After completing his Ph.D., Stefano continued as a Teaching Assistant in Signal Theory at the Info-Com Dpt. of the University of Rome. In October 1998, he joined Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) in Piscataway, NJ, in the Broadband Networking Research Department where he is now a Senior Scientist.

Stefano's main research efforts are devoted to various aspects of xDSL systems, wireless/wired home networks, wireless communications, power line communications, and optical CDMA. His research interests also include detection and estimation, communications theory, and signal processing.

Stefano is Senior Member of the IEEE, a reviewer for several IEEE journals and conferences, has published over 70 papers, and holds four patents and several pending ones. Since October 2004, he has been serving as Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Sub-Committee on Power Line Communications. He also served as a Co-Guest Editor for the Feature Topic "Broadband is Power: Internet Access through the Power Line Network" (IEEE Communications Magazine, May 2003), and as Co-Guest Editor for the special Issue on "Power Line Communications" of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

Stefano often serves as Technical Program Committee member of IEEE conferences such as the IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications (ISPLC'04, ISPLC'05, ISPLC'06), the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'04), the IEEE Military Communications Conference (Milcom'05), the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'04), and as the General Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'05), and as Vice-Chair of the General Symposium of ICC'06. Stefano is also serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.