Summary
Ray Salem is a Senior Director of Technology with 16 years of experience leading modem hardware modeling, high-level synthesis deployment, and rapid prototyping for wireless systems at Qualcomm. He blends deep signal-processing expertise (turbo decoders, equalizers, multi-rate filtering) with hands-on modeling in Matlab, C++, SystemC and bit-exact RTL verification to drive successful tape-outs and virtual platforms for early firmware development. Ray has a proven track record turning HLS experiments into production flows, having structured teams and delivered measurable gains on H.265 prediction engines. An electrical engineer by training who moonlights as an aspiring data scientist, he is comfortable moving from low-level implementation details to system architecture and performance optimization. Based in Spring Valley, CA, he has founded and advised startups in femto cells and SDR, and served on a nonprofit board tackling community reintegration. His pragmatic combination of academic rigor and production delivery makes him adept at closing the loop between algorithm, model, and silicon.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science Electrical Engineering, Master's of Science Electrical Engineering at San Diego State University