Eric’s expertise includes:

• Proprietary and standard wireless protocols
• Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11)
• WPAN (IEEE 802.15.4)
• LPWAN (LoRa/LoRaWAN)
• IEEE 802.11 standards
• Intellectual property
• Systems architecture
• Networking protocols
• Product requirements and feature roadmap
• Algorithms design
• Cross-layer optimization
• Quality-of-service (QoS)
• Resource allocation
• Scheduling algorithms
• Power save protocols
• Performance analysis
• End-systems test methodology
• Network health monitoring
• Wireless network deployments

Eric has 22 years of experience as a researcher, wireless architect, engineer, and inventor. He has been responsible for wireless (Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.15.4, and LoRa/LoRaWAN) protocols, systems designs, feature roadmaps, and product development at Amazon, Meta, Apple, Mimosa Networks, Broadcom, and Cisco. He has led firmware teams to develop complex software features and design testbeds and methodologies for product performance benchmarking and testing.

Throughout his career, Eric has gone through multiple product life cycles. He has invented protocols, algorithms, wireless architectures, and systems solutions for products like Broadcom Wi-Fi chips, Apple products, Amazon Sidewalk, Amazon Just Walk Out (JWO), Mimosa Network point-to-point fixed wireless solutions, and Cisco application gateways.

Eric has served as the MAC co-chair for the IEEE 802.11ax standards development group and led Apple’s effort in IEEE 802.11ax. Eric has contributed several mandatory MAC features to the IEEE 802.11ah (Wi-Fi HaLow) and IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) standards. Eric is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Eric holds a Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego, a Master of Engineering from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore. All in wireless networking and communications. He has co-authored more than 50 U.S. and international patents.