Charbel Khawand

About Charbel Khawand

Charbel is a pioneer in wireless telecommunication systems and platform development. he has led the creation and implementation of key solutions, driving product commercialization in various mobile markets. With skills spanning software, firmware, and hardware architectural solutions, Charbel\'s extensive experience in product research and development covers industrial, commercial, and enterprise applications, generating valuable intellectual properties. His expertise includes wireless stacks, wireless coexistence, wireless AI, RF and antenna control, signal processing, digital communication, and specialized sensory systems. Charbel consistently overcomes technical challenges and delivers adaptable architectures across major industries, with their contributions often adopted by partnering companies.Charbel\'s innovation portfolio features a key patent, 50 issued IPs, papers, a chapter in the Mobile Bible publication, and a national award. He has represented Microsoft for NFC, UWB FIRA, and the BT SIG Advisory committee. Charbel leads various wireless architecture initiatives for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, IoT, and advanced LTE 5G at Microsoft Surface, mmWave, collaborating with companies like Qualcomm, Intel, NVidia, NXP, MTK, Keysight, and more. Charbel is highly regarded as a versatile architect with a knack for resolving complex technical challenges quickly.Previously, Charbel led the wireless group at Surface, directed the camera pipeline team for Windows Phone, and managed the media software team for Microsoft\'s first cellular social media device. At Motorola and Freescale, he oversaw software and system hardware architecture roles, contributing to the design of single and multi-core mobile platform and earning multiple US patents and industry recognition for his work.

Experience

1. Sr Director and Architect Wireless System Design

   Microsoft

   Apr 2020 — Present · Redmond, US

   Leading the wireless system architecture group with responsibilities in RF, HW, SW & FW providing initiatives encompassing engineering research and development of product solutions (e.g, mmWave, FR1, Wi-Fi7, BLE, NFC, UWB, etc.).Responsibility includes incubation of new cellular technologies and tech bets while providing Leadership teams with hands-on data and focused strategies, development of specialized solutions and frameworks, contribution to wireless standards, wireless systems overviews, FR1/FR2/NFC/Wi-Fi/BT/mmWave codebooks, compliance and wireless provisioning. system data and wireless provisioning. Many industry firsts such as advanced SAR frameworks that intelligently adapts to non-traditional compliance scenarios, agnostic to sensory inputs and world regions, providing independent antenna control and SAR safety fallback for wireless subsystems. Such techniques were adopted by the industry in new IHV solutions and described in various IHV documentations + seminars and offered to the rest of the eco-system. GO SURFACE!

Education

• University of Miami

  Master of Science In Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Skills

• Software Engineering
• Hardware Architecture
• Ip
• Cellular Communications
• Pcb Design
• Wireless
• Clearcase
• Unix
• Hardware
• Architecture
• Mobile Devices
• Embedded Software
• Arm
• Rtos
• Rf
• Embedded Systems
• Testing
• Operating Systems
• Lte
• Debugging
• Algorithms
• Digital Signal Processors
• Bluetooth
• Device Drivers
• System Architecture
• Mobile Communications
• Software Development