Lydi Smaïni, Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Switzerland
Dr. Smaïni is currently RF System & DSP group manager at Marvell’s operations in Switzerland, a leading semiconductor company. In 2010 Dr. Smaïni gave a tutorial on RF System Design for Advanced Wireless Transceivers at the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference. Previously he has worked as an R&D consulting engineer for ALTEN, Marseille, France, where he developed a frequency agile radar beacon for navigation aid, which is now in service on the French coastline. Immediately prior to joining Marvell in 2006, from 2002 he was with STMicroelectronics, Switzerland in the RF System and Architecture Group for wireless communications working on Ultra Wide-Band impulse radio, 3G cellular phones, and advanced radio architectures for OFDMA technology.