Upkar Dhaliwal

CEO Founder, System Architect & Business Development Professional at Future Wireless Technologies San Diego/UK

Greater San Diego Area

Current
  • Founder at Future Wireless Technologies
Education
  • Spring Grove Grammar School
  • University College London, U. of London
  • University of Leeds
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Wireless
Websites

Upkar Dhaliwal’s Summary

A Wireless Technology Business Developement Expert with extensively wide contacts and specialist knowledge on Future Wireless Direction – Standards, Engineering & Markets.

A System Architect Engineering Manager with over 20 years of hands-on experience in Wireless, Space & Defence. As a Professional Chartered Engineer, an industry expert serving on numerous industrial/technical bodies, with specialized knowledge & technical leadership in design & development novel wireless circuits & systems.

My focus for past 12 yrs has been system requirements & specifications & market requirements in Wireless Communications. Worked for STMicro on a joint design team exclusively with NOKIA Mobile Phones, for QUALCOMM for 8 years thru the 3G –CDMA/UMTS/HSPA era working closely with up to 25+ licensees, & early 2G/GSM for SAMSUNG Telecom .

Present focus is Convergence Technologies of IEEE 802 stds like 4G: 802.16 WiMAX & 5G: 802.22 Cognitive WRAN, plus new study group on 802.15.6 BAN and .15.3 UWB, whilst keeping up with 3GPP LTE (& UMB) for new applications like FemtoCell, Home Gateway and Wireless Medical.

Recent focus includes Front End solutions for UMTS, CDMA NxOFDMA, MIMO & 802.11,15,16, 20 & 22 WLAN/WiMax multimode

I began my career with BS & MS Degrees in Engineering, leading to early career experiences & contributions in device modeling, circuit design & subsystem developments where I led World wide eng. teams in Four World Class Firsts – First Commercial Active Antenna for Space -ESA, First Active Antenna for Battlefield Radar - MMIC/RFIC, First cdma1x Voice call & First dual mode single stack UMTS-GSM voice call.

Major accomplishments are world-class early call in 3G CDMA, UMTS & UMTS+GSM chipset development – complete design cycle of HW/SW integration from product requirement definition, High Level definition thru to chipset verification & customer sampling/support into production of the First single chip transceiver, single SW stack & integrated modem

Upkar Dhaliwal’s Specialties:

Wireless System Design and Business Development Architect

Extensive multinational technical management work and teams in Europe, Asia.

Industry Expert on WiMAX, UMTS, EGPRS and CDMA2000 Radio Specifications, RF System Designs and Verification and RF/System Integration with over 10 years of Wireless Chipset development experience from 2G towards 5G.

Industry Expert & Specialist knowledge on RF Front-end Technologies for State of the Art Radios for Mobile Wireless Standards,


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Upkar Dhaliwal’s Interests:

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Upkar Dhaliwal’s Groups:

WIMAX Forum, EWC, 3GPP, 3GPP2, 802.16, 802.20, 802.22, IEEE, MTT-S, SSC-S, COM-S, IEE, San Diego Telecom Council, CWC, UCSD, Commnexus, WiMedia, UWB, DigRF MIPI, Austin Technology Council/Wireless Summit, MIT Enterprise FOrum, TiE San Diego, Gerhman Consultants, WCA San Jose, INmobile.org, Forbes, Express Ventures, CTIA

  •    Executive Suite
  •    GPS Business News
  •    The Official IEEE Group
  •    Worldwide Management Consultants (10,000+ members)
  •    Analog RF Mixed-Signal IC Design & Development Group, 1100+ Members
  •    IMEC-MTC-alumni
  •    RFID Professionals
  •    Global Worker (10,000+ members)
  •    Wireless Jobs (11k+ Members)
  •    China Business
  •    Engineering Contractors
  •    Strategic Business and Competitive Intelligence Professionals
  •    RF, Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineering
  •    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
  •    Healthcare Technology Alliance
  •    IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security
  •    Nokia World
  •    WiMAX World
  •    Business Intelligence Professionals
  •    Technology Leaders Association
  •    Friends of Britain
  •    Technology Marketing Community
  •    Indian Startups
  •    Unified Communications
  •    Wireless Telecommunications
  •    University College London Alumni
  •    IEEE society MTT-S member
  •    Telecom Solution Architects
  •    802.15.4
  •    Leeds University Alumni
  •    Southern California Venture Capital Community
  •    Wireless Expertise
  •    Radio Access Professionals
  •    Qualcomm Inc.
  •    Medical Devices Group
  •    RF/Microwave systems and design
  •    DigRF
  •    Chips India, Analog Chips India, Analog & Mixed Signal Chips India, RF Wireless chips India
  •    Global RF & Microwave Business Development Proffesionals Group
  •    Catania RF IC
  •    RFID in Healthcare
  •    RF Distribution Professionals
  •    Technology Aging in Place

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  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
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