Shlomo Rakib is an Israeli electrical engineer known for his work on
Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) is a 2D modulation technique that transforms the information carried in the Delay-Doppler coordinate system. The information is transformed in the similar time-frequency domain as utilized by the traditional s ...
(OTFS) and other engineering topics.
He is the holder of several patents and co-founder and current Chief Technology Officer of Cohere Technologies, which he had co-founded with
Ronny Hadani
Ronny Hadani is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in representation theory and harmonic analysis, with applications to signal processing. He is known for developing Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) modulating techniqu ...
.
He also co-founded
Terayon in 1993.
Education
Rakib received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from
Technion University in Israel.
The university's Shlomo Rakib Fellowship Fund is named after him.
Career
In the 1980s, Rakib served as a communications engineer in the
Israeli Navy
The Israeli Navy ( he, חיל הים הישראלי, ''Ḥeil HaYam HaYisraeli'' (English: The Israeli Sea Corps); ar, البحرية الإسرائيلية) is the naval warfare service arm of the Israel Defense Forces, operating primarily i ...
.
Rakib also served as Chief Engineer at the communications products company PhaseCom from 1981 to 1993. As part of PhaseCom, he developed data and telephony applications.
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Shlomo Rakib founded
Terayon in 1993 with his brother Zaki Rakib (IPO in 1998).
The company initially sold modems before developing other types of broadband technology.
Rakib served as the company's president and CTOs.
Rakib invented
Terayon's
S-CDMA technology, which is a component of the
DOCSIS
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) is an international telecommunications standard that permits the addition of high-bandwidth data transfer to an existing cable television (CATV) system. It is used by many cable televisio ...
2.0 cable data specification used in
cable modems.
As part of Terayon, he also developed data transmission methods utilizing
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a telecommunications standard defined by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and ITU-T (formerly CCITT) for digital transmission of multiple types of traffic. ATM was developed to meet the needs o ...
(ATM) and S-CDMA.
Rakib resigned as Terayon's president in 2004.
The firm was acquired in 2007 by
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent public companies, Motorola ...
.
In 2004, Rakib co-founded Novafora, a company that developed microprocessors for advanced video applications.
The firm acquired semiconductor and microprocessor company Transmeta in 2009 before it eventually closed in the same year.
Rakib and
Ronny Hadani
Ronny Hadani is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in representation theory and harmonic analysis, with applications to signal processing. He is known for developing Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) modulating techniqu ...
co-founded Cohere Technologies in 2009.
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(OTFS) at the University of Texas at Austin
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. and founded the company after Rakib devised the idea to apply OTFS to wireless technology and signal processing. The firm focuses on wireless improvements using OTFS and the Delay-Doppler model to improve FDD/TDD spectrum performance.
In 2012, Rakib founded Gainspeed, a company specializing in DAA (Distributed Access Architecture). The company was initially known as Cohere Networks before being renamed Gainspeed in 2013. The firm was acquired by Nokia in 2016.
Selected publications
Rakib's work has been cited by other scholars over 600 times. His work has also been cited in textbooks. His notable works include:
*Rakib, S. (1997). An innovative cable modem system for broadband communication. 24 - 30. .
*Zarai, Y., & Rakib, S. (2008). Hilbert space-filling by piecewise-linear index transformation. ''IEEE Signal Processing Letters'', 15, 717-720.
*Monk, A., Hadani, R., Tsatsanis, M., & Rakib, S. (2016). OTFS - orthogonal time frequency space. arXiv preprint .
*Hadani, R., Rakib, S., Tsatsanis, M., Monk, A., Goldsmith, A. J., Molisch, A. F., & Calderbank, R. (2017, March). Orthogonal time frequency space modulation. In 2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (pp. 1–6). IEEE.
*Hadani, R., Rakib, S., Molisch, A., Ibars, C., Monk, A., Tsatsanis, M., Delfeld, J., Goldsmith, A. & Calderbank, R. (2017). Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation for millimeter-wave communications systems. 681-683. .
*“Representation theoretic patterns in three dimensional cryo-electron microscopy III - Presence of Point Symmetries.” Gurevich, S., Hadani, R. and Singer, A. (In preparation).
Selected research
Rakib has been granted more than 50 patents during the last few decades. Notable patents include (among others):
*US Patent 8170392, Rakib, S.S., Bronstein, A., Bronstein, M., Devictor, G.B.M., "Method and apparatus for generation, distribution and display of interactive video content"
*US Patent 8547988, Hadani, R. & Rakib, S.S., "Communications method employing orthonormal time-frequency shifting and spectral shaping"
*US Patent 8879378, Hadani, R. & Rakib, S.S., "Orthonormal time-frequency shifting and spectral shaping communications method"
*US Patent 9590779, Hadani, R. & Rakib, S.S, "Modulation and equalization in an orthonormal time-frequency shifting communications system"
See also
* Terayon
References
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Living people
Israeli electrical engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)