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John Smee
Dr. John E. Smee is a Director of Engineering in the Corporate Research and Development department at Qualcomm. His research interests are in the areas of advanced signal processing and systems design for wireless communications networks.
Dr. Smee is currently the co-project engineer and systems engineering lead for the company’s first base station modem ASIC that implements CDMA reverse-link traffic interference cancellation. In addition, Dr. Smee is leading Qualcomm’s Corporate R&D University Relations program which was launched to strengthen and broaden the collaboration between Qualcomm researchers and academia.
Dr. Smee joined Qualcomm in January 2000, first working on the design and implementation of adaptive space-time equalization for EV-DO. He has since been involved in a variety of projects focused on the innovation of wireless communications systems, making contributions to CDMA, 802.11, OFDM , and MIMO.
Dr. Smee is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been granted 30 U.S. patents in the areas of wireless communications and signal processing.
Dr. Smee received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees of science in 1993 and 1995, respectively, from Queen's University, Ontario, Canada. He went on to receive a master’s degree and doctorate in electrical engineering in 1997 and 2000, respectively, from Princeton University. During his education, he held internships at Digital Equipment Corp., Northern Telecom Ltd., and Bell Labs-Lucent Technologies.
