US National Academy of Engineering and IEEE Award Honors to MOJIX® Technical Advisors

Business Wire,  June 24, 2008  

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LOS ANGELES -- Mojix today announced the receipt of distinguished engineering honors for two members of the Mojix Technical Advisory Board. The Board is comprised of a group of experts in pioneering communications technologies including coding and information theory, antenna and array design, and RFIC design, who work closely with the Mojix engineering team.

Dr. Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, has been elected to membership in the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Professor Rahmat-Samii was honored for his pioneering research contributions in the development and measurement of reflector and hand-held device antennas. Many of his designs concepts are currently used in cell phones, planetary spacecraft, earth-observation satellites, and satellite dishes.

Dr. Dariush Divsalar, Principal Scientist, NASA's Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and advisory board member and consultant to Mojix, along with coauthors, received the 2008 IEEE Communication Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. The award was given for the paper "Accumulate-Repeat-Accumulate Codes" which appeared in the April 2007 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. The prize is given annually to an outstanding paper published in any publication of the IEEE Communications Society or Information Theory Society.

"Mojix congratulates Dr. Rahmat-Samii and Dr. Divsalar for their exceptional achievements," said Dr. Ramin Sadr, Founder and CEO, Mojix Inc. "Mojix is fortunate to have the opportunity to work with these advisors, who are some the world's leading experts in their fields."

Yahya Rahmat-Samii joined the UCLA Engineering faculty in 1988, after working as a senior research scientist at NASA's Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering Department and holds the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics at UCLA. He has also been a consultant to numerous aerospace and wireless companies. Prof. Rahmat-Samii has authored or coauthored more than 750 technical journal and conference papers, 25 book chapters and three books, and is the holder of several patents. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1985 and has served IEEE in several capacities, including as President in 1995 of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Director and Vice President of the Antennas Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) for three years, and currently serves as a member of several Commissions of the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC/URSI). Dr. Rahmat-Samii has received numerous awards, including the 1992 and 1995 Wheeler Best Application Prize Paper Award for his papers published in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Transactions, 1999 University of Illinois ECE Distinguished Alumni Award, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and AMTA'2000 Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2001, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. In 2005 he was the recipient of the URSI Booker Gold Medal and in 2007 he received the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Dr. Divsalar has published more than 150 papers, coauthored a book entitled "An Introduction to Trellis Coded Modulation with Applications", contributed to two other books, and holds 12 U.S. patents. Recently IEEE Communication Society has selected one of his papers as one of the best key research papers. The paper was included in the book "The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research," by IEEE Press and Wiley-Interscience 2007, containing the best 56 papers ever published in journals of the IEEE Communications Society in the Society's 50-year history. He has received over 350 NASA Tech Brief awards and the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal in 1996. From 1989 to 1996, he served as Editor and Area Editor in Coding and Communication Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He became a Fellow of IEEE in 1997 for contributions to the analysis and design of coding and modulation techniques for satellite, mobile, and deep-space communication systems.

About Mojix

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., Mojix, Inc. was founded in 2004 by a team of former JPL/NASA scientists and engineers with the vision of applying breakthroughs in deep space communications to exponentially refine the precision, reach and scope of RFID technology. The first of a game-changing new class of RFID systems, company's Mojix STAR (SpaceTime Array Reader) system introduces capabilities orders of magnitude beyond conventional passive RFID offerings to enable economical, large-scale and high-volume RFID deployment. Mojix is privately held with funding from Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures and InnoCal Venture Capital. For more information, please visit www.mojix.com.