Biographies

Dr. William C.Y. Lee serves as Chairman of Treyspan, Inc., a start-up company located at Segundo, CA, doing wireless network deployment. He was Chairman of LinkAir Communications, Inc., where he provided strategic direction to LinkAir’s senior management team from 2000 to 2005. He was Vice President and Chief Scientist of AirTouch, then Vodafone-AirTouch from 1985 to 2000.

Dr. Lee has published more than 300 articles and seven technical books on CDMA theory and technology. His mobile cellular telecommunications system book published in 1989 was the first cellular system book ever published. He wrote eight technical books. His most recent, Wireless and Cellular Telecommunications Systems, was published by McGraw Hill in 2006. He holds more than 30 US patents with 11 pending.

Dr. Lee was one of a team of pioneers in developing advanced wireless technology, AMPS, for Bell Labs. His UHF mobile radio propagation model is known as the Lee Model. In 1979, he joined the ITT Defense Communications Division, where he headed the advanced mobile communications system. In 1985, he joined PacTel (which then became Vodafone AirTouch in 1999), where he was Vice President and Chief Scientist. He was elected as cochair of ARTS Committee of CTIA in selecting the second generation cellular system for USA (1987-1988). During his tenure in 1989, he assisted in CDMA research and the initial trial of the technology for Qualcomm in San Deigo. Dr. Lee then led PacTel’s PCS experimental trial and under his leadership the first CDMA phone call was placed in Los Angeles in 1995.

Dr. Lee has been elected as an IEEE Fellow and has served as a member of numerous Councils, including the California State Council on Science and Technology (Fellow); the US Council on Competitiveness; the FCC Technical Advisory Council from 1999-2001; and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Board of Advisors/Industrial Affiliates, University of California, Davis.

Rehan Jalil has over 15 years of technical management and sales experience in telecommunications, networking, and multicore processors. Prior to WiChorus he was the chief architect for Aperto Networks and played diverse leadership roles in technology and sales. Aperto was a key contributor of technology that became part of IEEE 802.16 standard and was a founding member of WiMAX Forum. He developed multiple generations of broadband wireless silicon, carrier-grade base stations, and terminals. These systems are used to deploy networks globally in over 75 countries by more than 400 operators. At Sun Microsystems he helped develop one of the industry’s earliest advanced multicore multithreaded processors for throughput computing and graphics applications. Part of the technology is now used in Sun’s 32-thread Niagra and Rock processors. At Siemens, he managed projects related to system-level design and implementation. He also contributes to social entrepreneurship projects and is a charter member of OPEN Silicon Valley . He has over 18 patents pending and graduated with an MSEE from Purdue University.

Bruce Himebauch is Director of Solution Product Engineering in the Software Research and Development Group of Atheros Communications. His 25 years of network industry experience at companies such as Symbol Technologies and Proxim Corporation has focused on LAN communications.  Bruce has worked on a variety of communication technologies including Binary Synchronous Communications Protocols, System Network Architecture/Synchronous Data Link Control protocols, and 802.11x.