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Khaled Ismail

Khaled Ismail is the President and Founder of SySDSoft. Between 2000 and 2002, he was General Manager of Ellipsis Digital Systems in Cairo, where he led a team of engineers to develop a fully embeddable System-on-Chip (SoC) according to the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard. Between 1989 and 1997, Khaled worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in the design of novel devices and materials for the semiconductor industry. He is considered one of the experts in the field of SiGe materials and devices, and is the recipient of the IBM Invention Achievement Award and the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 1997 and 1995, respectively. Khaled received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, and has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1997. He has published over 150 papers in international journals and holds 16 patents.

Sameh Sowelam

Sameh Sowelam is the General Manager of the Embedded Wireless Business Unit at SySDSoft. Prior to joining SySDSoft he spent 10 years in various technology positions. He spent 5 years at Medtronic Inc. in Minneapolis, USA where he lead several teams pursuing embedded technologies. He worked closely with physicians and the product development group to align product features with market needs. Prior to Medtronic, Sameh spent 3 years at Cognicity Inc., a startup based in Minneapolis where he lead a team developing watermarking technologies for audio applications. Prior to that, he spent 2 years at GE working on radar and satellite communication systems. Sameh received his B.Sc. degree with honors from Cairo University and a M.A.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto. He received a Ph.D. from University of Minnesota. He has over 10 issued and pending patents and has numerous publications in the areas of radar, satellite communications and embedded cardiac disease management devices.

Emad Hegazi

Emad Hegazi has been with SySDSoft since 2004. He is the General Manager of the RFIC business unit. He has gained a valuable experience as a Senior Staff Engineer at Ericsson Mobile Platforms, NC, USA, where he was responsible for the design of analog and mixed signal circuits for wireless transceivers. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2002 and received the outstanding Ph.D. award from the EE department at UCLA for his work. Emad worked as a Lecturer at the University of California , Los Angeles, in 2002. He is known for his Frequency synthesizer and VCO work and recently for his wideband multiband communication circuits work. Emad has published 20+ papers in the field of RF and analog circuit design. He is also the author of the book titled “Designer's Guide to High-Purity CMOS Oscillators”, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2004. He recieved the Solid-State Circuits Society fellowship in 2001 and the UCLA graduate division fellowships in 1999 and 2000. He was the technical program co-chair for the International Conference in Microelectronics in 2007

Khaled Elsayed

Khaled Fouad Elsayed is the CTO of the embedded wireless business unit at SySDSoft. He brings an industrial and academic experience of 20 years to SySDSoft in the areas of networking, wireless systems, and software development. He spent 2 years at Nortel Networks in Richardson, USA as a member of technical staff working on Nortel’s ANSI-95 CDMA-MTX product line. He was also with ITWorx as chief architect of the NetCelera network appliance that was acquired by SwanLabs and eventually by F5 Networks. Khaled had consulting assignments with Auspex Systems (Alphatronix), BroadBand Technologies, Amernet, the United Nations and the European Commission. Khaled is also a full professor of communication networks in Cairo University. He received his B.Sc. degree with honors and M.Sc. from Cairo University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University. He has published over 45 technical papers and was chair or technical committee member in various IEEE and IFIP conferences and was a technical editor with the IEEE Communications Magazine.