Farah Arabian

Farah Arabian

Cellular Software Engineer, EE PhD

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Biography

Farah has been a Cellular Software Engineer at Apple Inc. since 2021, leveraging her expertise in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a Ph.D. from Brigham Young University (BYU). Her dissertation, “Multipath Mitigation in Frequency Selective Channels with an Emphasis on 5G Cellular Mobile Networks and Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry Applications,” underscores her specialized knowledge.

During her doctoral studies, Farah contributed as a research and teaching assistant, focusing on signal processing and digital communications. With four years of prior professional experience as a UMTS/LTE RF planning and optimization engineer at Huawei and Nokia, she demonstrated her proficiency in the field.

Farah remains engaged in her professional community, actively participating in the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) and holding memberships in esteemed engineering honors societies like Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi.e IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) and holds memberships in engineering honors societies Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Interests
  • 5G mobile networks
  • Digital communications theory
  • Digital signal processing
Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022

    Brigham Young University

  • MSc., Communication Engineering, 2013

    Amir Kabir University of Technology

  • BSc., Electrical Engineering, 2010

    Sadjad University of Technology

Skills

Wireless Network

LTE/5G Cellular networks

Programming

C++/Matlab

Digital communication theory

Coding

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Cellular Interoperability Engineer
Apple Inc.
Nov 2021 – Present California
Working with cellular infrastructure vendors on algorithm development and features improvement
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Research Assistant
ICE Lab, BYU
Jan 2017 – Present Utah
RA/TA with the emphasis on digital communications thoery and singal processing in mobile systems and aeronautical telemetry applicatios.
 
 
 
 
 
RF Planning and Optimization Engineer
NOKIA Company
Jul 2016 – Jul 2017 IRAN

Responsibilities include:

  • Network troubleshooting
  • UMTS/LTE Networks evaluation and Analysis
  • KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Optimization
  • Strong contribution in Nokia NPO (Network Performance Optimization) project-responsible of region one, which is included of five big provinces of Iran, contributed to achieve more than 10 percent coverage and quality improvement in LTE network
 
 
 
 
 
RF Planning and Optimization Engineer
Huawei Technologies Co.
Jun 2014 – Jul 2016 IRAN

Responsibilities include:

  • Network troubleshooting
  • UMTS/LTE Networks evaluation and Analysis
  • KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Optimization
  • ASP(Accurate Site Planning) and ACP(Automatic Cell Planning)
 
 
 
 
 
Project Manager and Project Management Assistant in Rollout Management (ROM) Project
ICON Company
Apr 2013 – Jun 2014 IRAN

Responsibilities include:

  • Led planning and implementation of MTN-Irancell rollout projects in Tehran, Ahvaz, Esfahan and Alborz provinces
  • PManaged subcontractors to consistent on-time and on-budget project delivery

Honors and Awards

Student engineering paper award
i-ETC conference Oct 2020
iREDEFINE professional development award
ECEDHA annual conference Jun 2020
Myron Hiram Nichols award
International Telemetry Conference Nov 2019
Best graduate student paper award
International Telemetry Conference Nov 2018
Outstanding Engineer
Nokia Company Aug 2017
Outstanding Engineer
HUAWEI Company Dec 2015

Highlights

Ph.D. Student Takes Home Award Third Year in a Row
You might recognize her name. In 2018, she won the First Place Graduate Student Award at the International Telemetry Conference (ITC), and last year she won the Myron Hiram Nichols Telemetry Spectrum Award at the ITC. This month, Farah Arabian - a PhD student studying under…
Holly Cluff
Last updated on Feb 27, 2024 3 min read
Ph.D. Student Takes Home Award Third Year in a Row
Ph.D. Student Wins Second Telemetry Award
For her second year, Farah Arabian, a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering department, won an award for the paper she submitted in the International Telemetry Conference (ITC).
Holly Cluff
Last updated on Feb 27, 2024 3 min read
Ph.D. Student Wins Second Telemetry Award
Farah Arabian Awarded Best Student Paper
Farah Arabian, an Electrical Engineering PhD student studying Telecommunications, was awarded Best Student Paper for her research paper submission at the International Telemetry Conference in Phoenix on November 7, 2018.
Holly Cluff
Last updated on Feb 27, 2024 2 min read
Farah Arabian Awarded Best Student Paper

Publications

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Farah Arabian, Willie K. Harrison (2021). Post-Quantum Cryptography Based on Codes: A Game Changer for Secrecy in Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry. International Telemetry Conference (ITC).

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Farah Arabian, Gregory P. Nordin, Michael Rice (2020). On the Ungerboeck and Forney Observation Models for Spatial Combining And Their Application to 5G Millimeter-Wave Bands. IEEE Access.

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Ahmed Thair Al-Heety, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Ahmed Hashim Rashid, Hasanain N. Abd Ali, Ali Mohammed Fadil, Farah Arabian (2020). Performance Evaluation of Wireless data traffic in Mm wave massive MIMO communication. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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Farah Arabian, Michael Rice, Rose Qingyang Hu (2020). Who's On First In 5G Mobile Networks: Equalizers or Polarization Diversity Combiners?. Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC).

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Farah Arabian, Gregory P. Nordin, Michael Rice (2020). On Polarization Dependent Equalization in 5G mmWave Systems. International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC).

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Contact

  • CA 95014