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Knovalytics
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Dr. Khalid Hamied is founder and Managing Partner at Knovalytics‚ provider of strategic technology consulting services for Machine Learning and Data Science. Dr. Hamied is also involved with evaluating and developing Trading Systems for Financial Markets. Most recently, Dr. Khalid Hamied was the Head of R&D of the Plan, Build and Optimize Product Development Unit at Ericsson, where he directed the development of advanced technology and software solutions for planning and optimizing 4th generation wireless networks and Multi-Technology Self Organizing Networks. Prior to his role at Ericsson, Dr. Hamied was the President and Chief Technology Officer of Optimi Corporation and one of its founders in 2003. Optimi‚ leading supplier of advanced planning, optimization and management solutions for GSM, UMTS and LTE wireless networks‚Äîwas acquired by Ericsson in December 2010 to strengthen Ericsson‚ capabilities in network modernization and the introduction of 4th generation wireless with focus on Multi-Vendor & Multi-Technology Self Organizing Networks. Prior to founding Optimi, Khalid held positions as: Senior Staff Engineer in the Wireless Access and Applications Group at Motorola Labs and Principal Engineer at Mobile Systems International, where he led the development of network optimization solutions for 3rd generation cellular networks. Khalid received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. His interests include coding and modulation, digital signal processing, machine learning, and mobile wireless communications. He has 12 refereed publications in journals and conferences in these areas, two patents on controlling interference in a mobile wireless network and one patent on MIMO and space-time coded OFDM. He is a co-editor of the Wiley textbook, Self-Organizing Networks (SON): Self-Planning, Self-Optimization and Self-Healing for GSM, UMTS and LTE.
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