Dr. Essam Sourour, Professor
Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, 21544
email: essam.sourour@alex-eng.edu.eg & sourour@ieee.org
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- Directing and supervising the development of all transmitter and receiver algorithms for LTE base station for the PUSCH, PUCCH and PRACH
- Synchronization, Channel estimation, Frequency offset estimation, MIMO, MMSE frquency domain equalization, Demapping, Turbo decoding
- Optimization of DSP implementation (Freescale starcore DSP)
- Directing and supervising the development of all transmitter and receiver physical layer algorithms for mobile WiMAX, LTE and Zigbee wireless systems
- Working on and supervising the porting and optimization on DSP platform
- Supporting RTL development
- Visiting researcher
- Development mobile WiMAX architecture and required algorithms
- Developing Viterbi equalizer, synchronization, frequency offset estimation algorithms
- Supporting the development of other GPRS/EDGE algorithm development
- Full time, Director System Engineering,
- Managing and supervising the testing the software design of a System-On-A-Chip for the IEEE 802.11 WLAN
- Supporting VHDL design of the physical layer algorithms of the IEEE 802.11a WLAN.
- Leading research and design of the physical layer of the IEEE 802.11a WLAN system
- Designing algorithms for AGC, Synchronization, Channel Estimation, Frequency offset estimation and Channel Equalization of OFDM systems
- Developing a complete system simulation and generating performance charts under all data rates and several system and channel parameters
- Full time, Senior Research Engineer
- Worked with a team to develop a complete modem simulation for an IS-95 Cellular phone and cooperated with hardware engineers to implement it on an Ericsson chipset
- Developed a complete modem simulation for 3G CDMA modem based on IS-2000 1X and IS-2000 3X taking into consideration all implementation aspects.
- Developed and presented numerous internal CDMA training courses, covering all aspects of Cellular CDMA Systems, from basic introduction to detailed modem design
- Filed, with others, several patents in different aspects of CDMA modem design, 7 of which are already issued (see patent list below)
- Developed advanced CDMA modem algorithms like: initial synchronization, multipath delay tracking, multipath searcher, assigning and re-assigning Rake Receiver Fingers, interference cancellation in Rake receiver, closed loop power control.
- Full time: Member of Scientific Staff. Was involved in the following projects:
- Designing computer simulations to assess the capacity of the analog and digital mobile communication systems in different channel conditions and cellular sectorization.
- Assessing the application of CDMA in personal communication systems
- Designing flow graphs and a test plan for the common air interface and call processing based on the TDMA dual mode compatibility standard IS-54
- Assessing dynamic and hybrid channel assignment techniques to increase the capacity of the mobile communication systems
Sept 2011 to December 2012
Axxcelera, Cairo, Egypt, Consultant
January 2007 to March 2011
SysDsoft, Cairo, Egypt, Consultant to DSP team
Summer 2004, Summer 2005 and summer 2006
Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS), Kuala lumpur, malaysia
February 1, 200 1 to January 15, 2004
Ellipsis Digital Systems, Carlsbad, California
August 23, 1996 to January 13, 2001
Ericsson Inc, Research Triangle park, North carolina, USA
January 1990 to July 1991
Bell Northern Research (nortel), Richrdson, texas, USA