Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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As a member of Skyhook's executive team, Farshid is responsible for the research & development of Skyhook's positioning technology. Farshid has almost 20 years of industrial experience in the design and implementation of satellite and wireless networks. Before joining Skyhook, Farshid was the head of the communications section of
Advanced Solutions Group (part of Cross Country Automotive Services). There, Farshid was responsible for the management, design and implementation of an application server and media gateway. Farshid was a proud member of the design and implementation team of the first three satellite-based mobile networks at Hughes Network Systems: ICO, Thuraya and Inmarsat high-speed data network. He proposed the first complete analytical model to carry out an analysis of single-hop and multi-hop ad hoc networks and 802.11 based on WLANs. Farshid is on the faculty of Boston University and received his Ph.D. from George Washington University and M.Sc. from Tehran University.