Majid Fozunbal
MSc in Mathematics and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, currently pursuing MBA at UC Berkeley and working as Senior Scientist & Project Lead at Hewlett-Packard.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Electrical Engineering, Engineering |
| Groups: | 2011 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, 2012 UC Berkeley Startup Competition, UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2009-2010, [INACTIVE] UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2008-2009 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of California System - Berkeley, University System of Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Hewlett-Packard Laboratories |
| Position: | Senior Scientist & Project Lead |
| Time period: | December 2004 - Present |
| Description: | Executive briefing for business customers on mission, vision, and operation of HP Labs. Conducting research on statistical data analysis, adaptive systems, and pattern recognition. Led a group of four to design and develop a novel multichannel echo control algorithm that
• Is now a product by HP Halo business unit converging ten times faster than commercial competition. • Cut the cost of the audio equipments by 67% per telepresence studio; reduced the labor for audio calibration and maintenance by 60%. • Enables customers to enjoy a natural audio experience with full audio spectrum and improved intelligibility. • Controls echo up to 24 dB increase in loop gain beyond normal–closest competitor has 9 dB. • Tracks echo paths (100,000 parameters) with high accuracy in real-time consuming 70% of a Xeon 3.40GHz. |
| Employer: | Mobile Telecommunications Company |
| Position: | Project Manager |
| Time period: | October 1999 - July 2000 |
| Description: | Led the signal processing team, including six engineers, in production of base transceivers for GSM cellular networks.
• Optimized the Vocoder and TRAU algorithms and reduced processing time by 60%. • Reduced the cost of required hardware, energy, and rack space by 40%. |
| Employer: | TEC Consultant Engineers |
| Position: | Communication Systems Consultant |
| Time period: | September 1996 - October 1999 |
| Description: | Clients included Iran National Oil and Petrochemical Co. and Iran International IKA airport.
• Streamlined the design of microwave links for offshore gas/oil platforms and pipelines in the South Pars project. • Developed a systematic process to manage client’s field data. The process led to a faster and improved design reducing the overall cost of system design and maintenance by 15%. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University System of Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2005 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, PhD |
| University: | University System of Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2003 |
| Degree: | Applied Mathematics, MSc |
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Degree: | Business Administration, MBA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Authored 25 papers in refereed international journals and conferences. |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Interests include chess, cooking, hiking, running, movies, soccer, and strategic computer games. |
| Awards: | ECE Graduate Research Excellence Award, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, 2004.
Ranked 4th out of 3500 contestants in the annually held national entrance exam for graduate studies in Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, 1996. Ranked 1st out of 120 students in graduating class in Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1996. Ranked 54th out of 160,000 contestants in the annually held national entrance exam for undergraduate studies in engineering, physics, and mathematics, Tehran, Iran, 1992. |
