Summary
Payam Rabiei is a Wireless Architect in San Diego with 8 years of industry experience designing and implementing wireless systems and embedded firmware across Apple, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and ASSIA. He combines deep academic grounding—a Ph.D. in Wireless Communication and statistical signal processing—with hands-on skills in algorithm design, DSP, fixed-point C, Matlab, and lab validation for real RF ICs. His work spans OFDM/MIMO/SC-FDMA, impairment estimation and compensation (phase noise, I/Q mismatch), interference cancellation, and power-efficient envelope tracking implemented up to the DAC on test chips. At Broadcom he optimized embedded whitening filters and low-complexity Levinson-Durbin routines for VASIP processors, demonstrating an uncommon blend of algorithmic rigor and cycle-level optimization. Comfortable collaborating with RTL and ASIC teams, he repeatedly bridges theory and silicon to quantify trade-offs like EVM versus power savings. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that move complex signal-processing ideas from MATLAB prototypes to production firmware and measurement rigs.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Wireless Communications, 3.7/4.0, Master's degree, Wireless Communications, 3.7/4.0 at The University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 17/20, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 17/20 at Shahid Beheshti University