Hatim Zaghloul

Hatim Zaghloul (, Egyptian Arabic, born February 7, 1957) Ph.D., M.Sc., B.E.E. is best known for his inventions, together with his long-time friend, Dr. Michel Fattouche of Wideband Orthogonal Division Multiplexing (WOFDM), and Multi-code Direct-sequence Spread Spectrum (MCDSSS). WOFDM is the foundation for the IEEE 802.11a/g/n technologies whereas MCDSSS helped increase the data rates of code division multiple access (CDMA) technologies as in the CDMA2000 standard. Currently, Dr. Zaghloul is the CEO and Chairman of IPL Media Inc. for Technology, Giza, Egypt, a company specializing in providing web development services as well as developing and marketing mobile games. He co-founded with Dr. Michel Fattouche, to commercialize their patented WOFDM technology. He founded And Co-founded a number of hi-tech companies such as Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc., a company he co-founded with Michel Fattouche to commercialize a cellular telephone location determination/tracking technology.

Biography

He was born on February 7, 1957 in the Giza, Egypt. At the age of 22, he received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University. He served in the Egyptian Armed Forces during 1980. That year he completed the third year and the mid-term for the fourth year of an applied mathematics degree in Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He worked for Schlumberger Wireline Services as an oil well logging engineer from 1981 to 1983. He was a Teaching Assistant at the University of Calgary from 1984 to-1989. He obtained his M.Sc. in physics from the University of Calgary in 1985. He was a Statistics instructor at the University of Athabasca from 1988 to 1990. He was a senior researcher at Telus from 1989 to 1993. He obtained a Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Calgary in 1994. He held various positions in Wi-LAN Inc. from 1993 to 2008. He was the CEO of Cell-Loc Inc. from 1995 to 1997. Dr. Zaghloul was on the board of directors of many hi-tech companies. He was the CEO of Solutrea from 2006 till 2008.

He is currently the Chairman and CEO of IPL Media Inc. for Technology http://www.iplmedia.com/index.html IPL Media that was incorporated in 2005 in Alberta, Canada, by Hatim Zaghloul as a publishing house and webdesign agency. It operates in Cairo Egypt since 2009. He is Co-founder, Chairman and Technology Adviser of Infinnet Technologies Ltd. http://www.infinnettechnologies.com/company/ Quantitative Value and Momentum Investment Systems since 2012 at the UK. https://www.facebook.com/DrHatimZaghloul?ref=hl#!/DrHatimZaghloul/info

Awards

1. Received the 2000 Fraser Milner Casgrain Pinnacle Award for his entrepreneurial achievements.
2. Dr. Zaghloul was a finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for two years: 1997-1998.
3. He was presented with the Hall of Fame Award from Broadband Solutions on April 10, 2000, for his contribution to the communications technology industry.
4. Recipient of the Calgary Immigrants of Distinction Award Recipients for business in 1998.
5. Designated by Canadian Computer Wholesaler Magazine as “Technically Excellent Canadian” in July 1999.
6. Named one of 10 Great Canadians by MacLean's Magazine in July 2000.

Wi-LAN Inc.

He collaborated on many patents in wireless communications, signal representation and estimation. Based on his patents in WOFDM (Wide-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) he co-founded Wi-LAN Inc. in 1993. Through Wi-LAN’s efforts, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has allowed OFDM technology over the 2.4 GHz unlicensed ISM band for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standards, better known as the Wi-Fi standard. Another technology developed and patented by Dr. Zaghloul and Dr. Fattouche is MC-DSSS (MultiCode-Direct-sequence Spread Spectrum) which is central to high speed CDMA applications, the main technology currently used by more Cell phone systems in North America than any other technology. Wi-LAN was a leader in the field of high speed wireless data communications as evidenced by the number of awards it received for its products. Wi-LAN and Philips invited companies to attend a meeting to form an alliance to promote the OFDM technology and its applications. Fifty five companies attended the meeting in November 1999 and formed the OFDM Forum in March 2000. Wi-LAN also was a founding member of the WiMAX Forum together with Ensemble, CossSpan, Harris, and Nokia. In 2006, market conditions forced Wi-LAN to change its focus for some time on patent licensing. It had acquired a number of patents from Ensemble Communications. Wi-LAN acquired Tri-Vision a company that developed a key ingredient in the V-Chip technology. Wi-LAN has since acquired hundreds of patents. It has licensed some of its technologies to technology giants such as Nokia, LG Electronics, Samsung, Fujitsu, RIM. Wi-LAN is currently developing other technologies and venturing into new fields besides wireless. Interestingly, for marketing purposes, Wi-LAN acquired 49% of the original patent on frequency hopping spread spectrum from legendary actress Hedy Lamarr in 1997. It was Lamarr’s only compensation for her invention.

Relationship of Hatim Zaghloul with Hedy Lamarr:

In 2007, Dr. Hatim Zaghloul learnt that Hedy Lamarr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr was never compensated for her invention of frequency hopping spread spectrum http://www.oocities.org/terry_chim/school/457a1/beginnings.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum . He contacted Hedy Lamarr and signed an agreement whereby Wi-LAN Inc. http://www.wi-lan.com/home/default.aspx Acquired 49% of the rights to her patent for marketing purposes for an undisclosed amount of money. He worked with Hedy till her death in 2000 to promote the patent and establish its value.

Wi-LAN’s Awards

1. Wi-LAN won the 1998 ASTECH Award for “Small Business.”
2. Wi-LAN was one of four finalists for the 1997 ASTECH Award for “Small Business.”
3. Wi-LAN won the 1993 Electronics Industries Association of Alberta (EIAA) “Award for best technology”.
4. Wi-LAN is the 1999 recipient of the CATA Alliance Award of Distinction for Emerging Technology.
5. Wi-LAN a Wireless Communications Association (WCA) International "Wemmie" in the "Most Effective Educational Program" category for the Northern Lights School Division network in Northern Alberta.
6. Wi-LAN received the Export Achievement Award from Alberta Venture Magazine in 2004
7. Wi-LAN received the Alberta Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists Association 2002 APEGGA Achievement Award for substantial technological progress.

1. Wi-LAN won the 2004 Calgary Export Achievement Award for Collaborative Partnerships by the Haskayne School of Management.

1. Wi-LAN was awarded a Wireless Communications Association International "Wemmie" Award in 2003. The award was for the Banco Del Pichincha non-line-of-sight network in Ecuador.

Wi-LAN’s Products

1. Hopper, DS-SSSS modem, 19.2-115kbit/s, 902-926 MHz unlicensed band - 1993-1999.
2. Hopper Plus, AWE, DS-SSSS CSK modem, up to 1Mbit/s, 2.4 GHz and 5.7 GHz unlicensed bands - 1994-2000.
3. BWS, Libra Product Lines, OFDM modem, up to 16Mbit/s, 2.4 GHz - 1999-2006.

Other Business Activities

Based on his collaboration with Dr. Fattouche on Super-Resolution, Dr. Zaghloul also co-founded Cell-Loc Inc. in 1995 (which became Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc. in 2003), the developer of a family of network-based wireless location products that enable location-sensitive services of people and assets using a small portable device. In 2005, he cofounded with his friend, Dr. Syed Amr Elahamasy, Innovative Products for Life Inc., a technology commercialization company. Their first product was an attachment for commercial blenders that would remove grease from fried foods. This work has led to a patent on the technology. Over the years, Zaghloul joined the boards of many companies: NTG Clarity Inc. from 1997 to 2001, Imaging Dynamics from 2000 to 2001, Powerstar International Inc. (and Solutrea Corp.) from 2007-2008. QCC Technologies from 1999 to 2001, IPL Media Inc. for Technology from 2009 to the present. IPL Media Inc. vision is that one day bold ideas will be within everybody’s reach. They see a world of opportunities and dreams that can turn into reality. IPL Media was incorporated in 2005 in Alberta, Canada, by Hatim Zaghloul as a publishing house and webdesign agency. Early 2006 IPL Media started negotiations with a Romanian web studio for work on several projects. The two got along very well and later that year they were partners. This alliance has many advantages including a large international experience and credibility brought by IPL Media and acclaimed professionals from the Romanian side. They are now able to cover two distant time zones as we are operating both from the Calgary, Alberta and Bucharest, offices. The company was incorporated as an investment company in Egypt in 2009 to cover Middle East area. All their staff (including the management) are at least university graduates in their fields of expertise and are constantly training to meet higher expectations. In Bucharest they are running R&D operations in order to bring the future closer to everybody or simply to improve the present. Each project they are developing benefits from optimizations and improvements brought by this department. They are also responsible with some of the new ideas IPL Media is bringing to light, alongside the Marketing department. http://www.iplmedia.com/index.html

Hatim Zaghloul, Ph.D. Co-founder, Technology Adviser of Infinnet Technologies Ltd. http://www.infinnettechnologies.com/company/ Quantitative Value and Momentum Investment Systems. Hatim is a successful entrepreneur and technology innovator with a 25 year track record of developing successful businesses. Hatim is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Wi-LAN Inc., a publicly traded company listed on TSX and NASDAQ stock exchanges with a market value of over $600 million. As adviser to Infinnet Hatim will use his extensive experience to help the company effectively monetize it’s intellectual property and access international markets. Hatim earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Calgary and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt.The company is an Emerging Leader in Financial Market Analytics. This unique company roots stem from the 2008 credit crisis which provided the catalyst for the founders to develop more effective methods to help investors and fund managers better manage risk and identify opportunities. The broad stock market as defined by S&P 500 Index declined 47% from peak to trough during the credit crisis. It was the massive impact of the “market crash” on the lives of millions of investors that propelled its founder, Suhail Ahmad to establish Infinnet Corporation in late 2009 in Calgary, Canada followed by it’s sister company Infinnet Technologies Ltd. in 2012 to particularly serve its institutional clients based in Edinburgh, UK.

Press Coverage of Dr. Zaghloul

He has been mentioned in many online and print articles over the past decade. Dr. Zaghloul was named as one of ten great Canadians by MacLean’s magazine in July 2000. Dr. Zaghloul has been named “Calgarian of the Year” by Business in Calgary magazine in 2000.

Patents

1. M. Fattouche and H. Zaghloul, "Method and apparatus for multiple access between transceivers in wireless communications using OFDM spread spectrum," U.S. Patent no. 5,282,222, Jan. 25, 1994.
2. H. Zaghloul and M. Fattouche, "Demodulation of a Signal Transmitted over a Fading Channel using Phase Estimation, Method and Apparatus," U.S. Patent no. 5,369,670, Nov. 29, 1994.
3. M. Fattouche and H. Zaghloul, "Multicode Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum," U.S. Patent no. 5,555,268, Sept. 10, 1996; Revised 37,802, July 23, 2002.
4. M. Fattouche, H. Zaghloul, P. Milligan and D. Snell, “Multicode spread spectrum communications system," U.S. Patent no. 6,204,812, March 20, 2001.
5. M. Fattouche, H. Zaghloul, P. Milligan and D. Snell, “Multicode spread spectrum communications system," U.S. Patent no. 6,192,068, February 20, 2001.
6. M. Fattouche, H. Zaghloul, P. Milligan and D. Snell, “Multicode spread spectrum communications system," U.S. Patent no. 6,320,897, November 20, 2001.
7. H. Zaghloul and M. Fattouche, "Method and apparatus for the compression, processing and spectral resolution of electromagnetic and acoustic signals," U.S. Patent no. 5,570,305, Oct. 29, 1996.
8. M. Fattouche, R. Klukas, A. Borsodi, M. Astridge, H. Zaghloul and G. Lachapelle, “Wireless location system," U.S. Patent no. 5,890,068, March 30, 1999.
9. H. Zaghloul and M. Fattouche, "Method and Apparatus for applying the z-domain Zeros to Speech Compression and Spectral Estimation," U.S. Patent no.5,570,305, Oct. 29, 1996.
10. H. Zaghloul, M. mali, H. Desouki and S. Elhamamsy "Centrifugal Food Degreaser," U.S. Patent no. 7,866,259 January 11, 2011.

Publications

1. H.Zaghloul (1st of four authors), "Comparison of Indoor Propagation Channel Characteristics at Different Frequencies," Electronic Letters, 27 (22), 2077-9, 1991.
2. H.Zaghloul (2nd of four authors), "Frequency Response Measurements System," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements.
3. M.Fattouche and H.Zaghloul, "Estimation of the Phase of Signals Transmitted over Fading Channels," Electronic Letters, 27 (20), 1823-4, 1991.
4. H.Zaghloul and O.Barajas, "Force-Free Magnetic Fields," An essay in Essays on Recent Advances in Electromagnetics, A.Lakhtakia, Editor, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
5. H.Zaghloul and H.A.Buckmaster, "Transverse Electromagnetic Standing Waves with E || B," An essay in Essays on Recent Advances in Electromagnetics, A.Lakhtakia, Editor, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
6. H.Zaghloul, "A Vector Potential Approach to Gravitation?" accepted for publication in Speculations in Science and Technology.
7. H.Zaghloul, "On Wave-Particle Duality for Elastic Waves," accepted for publications in Speculations in Science and Technology.
8. H.Zaghloul (1st of three authors), "Frequency Response and Path Loss Measurements of the Indoor Channel," Electronic Letters, 27 (12), 1021-2, 1991.
9. H.Zaghloul (1st of four authors), "A Simple Method for the Evaluation of Microwave Mixer Diodes," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, IM-39, 928-32, 1990.
10. H.Zaghloul and O.Barajas, "Force-Free Magnetic Fields," American J. of Physics, 58, 857-62, 1990.
11. H.Zaghloul, "On the Possibility of Force-Free Magnetic Fields," Physics Letters A., A140, 95-6, 1989.
12. H.Zaghloul and H.A.Buckmaster, "Properties of TEM Waves with E|| B," Annales des Physique (Fr.), 15, 21-8, 1990.
13. H.Zaghloul and H.A.Buckmaster, "TEM Waves with E || B,"American J. of Physics, 56, 801-6 (1988).
14. H.Zaghloul (1st of three authors), "Comment on Invariants of the Electromagnetic Fields," American J. of Physics, 56, 1988.
15. H.Zaghloul, "Lightlike Fields," a letter in the American Journal of Physics, 55, 970, 1987.
16. H.Zaghloul (1st of three authors), "Comment on TEM Waves with E || B," Physics Review Letters, 58, 423, 1987.
17. H.Zaghloul (third of four authors), "9 GHz Permittivity Measurements of High-Loss Liquids Using a Variable-Length Cavity and a Dual-Channel, Double Superhetrodyne Signal Processing System," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, MTT-35, 909-16, 1987.
18. H.Zaghloul and H.A.Buckmaster, "The Complex Permittivity of Water at 9.356 GHz from 10-40DEGC," Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 18, 2109–18, 1985.
19. H.Zaghloul, "The Complex Permittivity of Water at 9.356 GHz from 10-40DEGC," "M.Sc. Thesis, Department of physics, The University of Calgary, 1985.
20. H.Zaghloul (third of three authors) "Complex Permittivity Instrumentation for High-Loss Liquids at Microwave Frequencies," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, MTT-33, 822-24, 1985.
21. M. Fattouche and H. Zaghloul, "Data Communications over the Mobile Radio Channel Using IS-54," Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 221–228, 1995.
22. M. Fattouche, B. Olasz, K. Scott and H. Zaghloul, "Modified Simulation of Urban Radio Propagation," Electronics Letters, vol. 29, no. 21, pp. 1825–1826, October 14, 1993.
23. D. Tholl, M. Fattouche, R.J.C. Bultitude, P. Melancon and H. Zaghloul, "A Comparison of Two Radio Propagation Channel Impulse Response Determination Techniques," IEEE Trans. Ant. & Prop., vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 515–517, April 1993.
24. H. Zaghloul, M. Fattouche, G. Morrison and D. Tholl,"A Comparison of Propagation Channel Characteristics at 1 GHz and 1.6 GHz," Electronics Letters, vol. 27, no. 22, pp. 2077–2079, October 24, 1991.
25. M. Fattouche and H. Zaghloul, "Estimation of the Phase Differential of Signals Transmitted over Fading Channels," Electronics Letters., vol. 27, no. 20, pp. 1823–1824, Sept. 20, 1991.
26. H. Zaghloul, G. Morrison, M. Fattouche and D. Tholl,"Frequency Response and Path Loss Measurements of The Indoor Channel," Electronics Letters, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 1021–1022, June 6, 1991.

Contributions/Chapters in Books

1. M. Fattouche and H. Zaghloul, "Error Reduction of DMPSK transmitted over Flat Fading Channels," pp. 159–174 in Wireless Personal Communications, edited by M.J. Feuerstein and T.S. Rappaport, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
2. M. Fattouche and H. Zaghloul, "A New Equalization Technique for Wideband OFDM over a Selective Fading Channel," in Advances in Wireless Communications, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
3. M. Fattouche and H. Zaghloul, "Error Reduction of coded MPSK transmitted over a Flat Fading Channel," Proceedings of Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Springer-Verlag, 1994.

Other Community Activities

1. Dr. Zaghloul and his family were the main sponsors for the “Mysteries of Egypt” Tutankhamen Exhibition in Calgary Glenbow Museum in 2001.

References

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