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Working in the field of developing signal processing techniques for digital communications in embedded systems.

R&D Software Engineer @ Joined the research and development team of SystemVue and participated in the development of key simulation features and processing capabilities, including the following specific tasks: • Improving, testing and maintaining SystemVue platform, • Developing design, simulation and verification solutions for wireless applications especially in the domain of signal processing for physical layer design, software radio and cognitive radio applications, • Fixed point modeling and hardware/FPGA design, • Developing RTL Cosimulation flow, • Developing and maintaining C++ signal processing models, • Investigating and researching new products and technologies, • Testing hardware in the loop simulation flow, • Working with university researchers to investigate and develop new signal processing algorithms for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), • Providing advanced technical consulting and training for application, field and technical support engineers. From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) R&D Software Engineer @ Joined the research and development team of SystemVue and participated in the development of key simulation features and processing capabilities, including the following specific tasks: • Improving, testing and maintaining SystemVue platform, • Developing design, simulation and verification solutions for wireless applications especially in the domain of signal processing for physical layer design, software radio and cognitive radio applications, • Fixed point modeling and hardware/FPGA design, • Developing RTL Cosimulation flow, • Developing and maintaining C++ signal processing models, • Investigating and researching new products and technologies, • Testing hardware in the loop simulation flow, • Working with university researchers to investigate and develop new signal processing algorithms for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), • Providing advanced technical consulting and training for application, field and technical support engineers. From July 2011 to August 2014 (3 years 2 months) Post-Doc @ Research includes: • Conducting research on optimizing wireless resource allocations for cognitive radio networks. • Preparing several research fund proposals. • Building and maintaining the Cognitive Radio lab with SDR platforms. • Teaching Cognitive Radio classes for graduate students. • Supervising Ph.D. Students and visiting researchers. • Reviewing manuscripts for major scientific journals and conferences in the field of wireless communications From August 2010 to July 2011 (1 year) DSP/FPGA System Engineer @ Worked on the development of high channel capacity infrastructure voice system for major carriers such as AT&T and Alltel. The system provides several voice services such as Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC) and mobile conferencing. Responsibilities include Linux C/C++ programming at different levels from application to device driver level as well as TI-DSP programming, testing and troubleshooting Linux-based PowerPC CPU boards and T3 line interface. Additional responsibilities include providing technical support to products and software. From June 2008 to December 2008 (7 months) Research Assistant @ Research includes: • Implementing software radio on several computing platforms (GPP and hybrid DSP/FPGA). • Evaluating several spectrum sensing techniques for cognitive radio networks in general and for IEEE 802.22 in particular. • Examining the application of compressed sensing techniques for spectrum sensing. • Developing a parallelized spectrum sensing technique for multi-core/multi-processor platforms. • Simulating and implementing wireless sensor network solutions for electrical energy saving and vehicle collision avoidance applications. • Investigating wireless communication solutions for disaster recovery and first responder communications. • Designing portable vehicle classification system in motion. From January 2006 to June 2008 (2 years 6 months) Instructor @ From January 2008 to April 2008 (4 months) Teaching Assistant Cryptography and Network Security @ From January 2007 to April 2007 (4 months) Lab Instructor Industrial Control Lab @ From September 2005 to December 2005 (4 months) Research Assistant @ Main research: Pattern recognition techniques using machine visions and Infra-Red spectroscopy From September 2004 to December 2005 (1 year 4 months) Teaching Assistant Matlab programming @ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND CETRIFICATES Certificate: Parallel Programming and Cluster Computing Workshop; 2009). Qualcomm Network Optimization/ Planning training course From January 2005 to May 2005 (5 months) Embedded Systems Engineer @ Worked on building control systems for water treatment industry. From August 2003 to September 2004 (1 year 2 months) Embedded Systems Firmware Developer @ Exposed to several industrial control system development projects including: Microcontroller and DSP programming for industrial control applications. Embedded systems integration: interface embedded boards with PLCs. From September 1999 to September 2003 (4 years 1 month) Intern SCADA systems @ Participated in SCADA control and alarming system installation and commissioning at AlAweer Transforming Substation (33/11 KV). From August 2002 to September 2002 (2 months)

Object-Oriented Programming from a Modeling and Simulation Perspective, Computer Software Engineering @ Stanford University From 2013 to 2013 PostDoc @ Georgia Institute of Technology From 2010 to 2011 Ph.D, Electrical and Computer Engineering @ University of Oklahoma From 2006 to 2010 M.Sc, Electrical and Computer Engineering @ University of Oklahoma From 2006 to 2010 M.Sc, Mechatronics @ Mechatronics, American University of Sharjah From 2004 to 2005 BSc, First Rank) Electronic Engineering @ Aleppo University From 1999 to 2003 Yahia Tachwali is skilled in: Signal Processing, Cognitive Radio, Wireless, Matlab, Simulink, Digital Signal Processors, Simulations, Image Processing, Labview, C, Wireless Sensor Networks, C++, Embedded Systems, Algorithms, Pattern Recognition