Pouya Taaghol

Pouya Taaghol is a passionate engineer and the founder of Big Data Federation. Pouya was the CTO of Cisco’s Smart Home and Intel’s of Mobile Wireless Group where he led technology evolution, intellectual property strategies, ecosystem development, business acquisition, and divesture. Pouya has also held senior technical positions at Motorola and NEC. Pouya holds over 25 issued and pending patents in wireless/networking/security/big data, and 150+ publications and contributions to standards bodies. Pouya holds a BSc from Sharif University of Technologies (Iran) and a PhD from University of Surrey (UK).