| Metanoia, Inc. has a team of half-dozen international experts that interact with our clients worldwide. Some of the key personnel include the following: |
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Vishal Sharma earned the B. Tech. (EE) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the M.S. (Signals & Systems), M.S. (Computer Engineering) and the Ph.D. (ECE) degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, respectively.
Dr. Sharma has over 15 years of diverse research, academic, industry and consulting experience in networking and telecom technologies, having worked in system architecture, protocol design, system analysis and optimization, software prototyping, and network planning and algorithms for both wireline and wireless networks and systems.
Dr. Sharma has 6 patents issued, and 4 patents pending in the areas of MPLS recovery, high-speed switch architectures and scheduling, optical routing, and the IP control of SONET/SDH networks. He is active in standards bodies, such as the IETF and OIF, with over 10 RFC's published, and was a key contributor to the generalized MPLS standards.
He is a Senior Member (2001) of the IEEE, a Fellow (2005) of the IETE, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) at the MFA Forum, and is a frequent panelist, chair, invited speaker, and educator in the US and abroad (Europe, Australia, South-Asia, and Asia-Pac), having delivered over 100+ invited talks, seminars, tutorials, and workshops. He is on the Scientific Committee's of the MPLS World Congress (Paris), Wi-MAX Summit (Paris), FutureCon (New York), iPOP (Japan), and several academic conferences, such as IEEE's ICC, Globecom, and LAN/MAN Workshop. He has lectured at the University of California, Berkeley (Extension) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (Extension).
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Arvind Keerthi earned his B. Tech (EE) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and received his M.S. (Signals & Systems) and Ph.D. (ECE) from the University of California Santa Barbara. Following his graduation, he was employed by Qualcomm in San Diego. At Qualcomm, he was senior systems engineer on the team that developed CSM5000 (TM), the chip that is central to all base-stations in CDMA2000 networks. Apart from CDMA, he also developed physical layer algorithms for OFDM and for adaptive antennas in multiple technologies.
Dr. Keerthi has over a decade of rich experience in technologies like GSM, CDMA, Wi-Max, WiFi, and in wireless systems design, analysis, and development. Dr. Keerthi has served as subject-matter expert (SME) for a number of clients in the wireless and wireless-networking industry, ranging from large service providers to chip- and module-vendors. In the course of his consulting career, he has helped clients design CDMA base-stations, develop sophisticated Wi-Max algorithms, and devise novel anti-jam military communications equipment.
Dr. Keerthi has over a decade of rich experience in technologies like GSM, CDMA, Wi-Max, WiFi, and in wireless systems design, analysis, and development. Dr. Keerthi has served as subject-matter expert (SME) for a number of clients in the wireless and wireless-networking industry, ranging from large service providers to chip- and module-vendors. In the course of his consulting career, he has helped clients design CDMA base-stations, develop sophisticated Wi-Max algorithms, and devise novel anti-jam military communications equipment.
He serves on the board of directors of Scintera Semiconductor (India) Pvt. Ltd., a fully-owned subsidiary of Scintera Networks USA. He is also the Principal of Signatech Wireless, a wireless consulting firm.
Dr. Keerthi has several publications and multiple patents in the field of wireless communication, spanning a broad range of issues such as adaptive antenna design, time synchronization, channel estimation, and interference mitigation. |
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