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Chair
Simon has specialised in wireless communications throughout his career - in both industry and academia. He is currently an independent consultant, working for regulators and technology firms and a visiting professor at the University of Surrey. Simon has acted as a consultant to a wide range of companies, including BAA, BBC, Mitsubishi, British Land, O2, Ofcom, BT, ntl and many others. He has invented more than fifteen patented technologies and has written more than 130 publications in learned journals, international conferences and book chapters. For several years he worked in an advanced development role for Philips Telecom, including the standardisation of the TETRA air interface for digital Private Mobile Radio. He led a team designing technology for a novel two-way paging system. Simon also spent one year working with the Ascom in Switzerland, defining product technologies and system design solutions for the first generation of TETRA handsets and base stations. In 1995 Simon worked for Motorola in their GSM Research Group, designing air interface and system planning enhancements leading to increased capacity second generation GSM systems. This included several patented advances in antenna, modem and cellular architectures. Simon lectured on mobile systems and led a research team within the Centre for Communication Systems Research at The University of Surrey for seven years. As Chief Technology Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of Cellular Design Services Ltd., Simon developed a suite of software tools and services for auditing and planning a wide variety of in-building radio systems. |
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