Yohannes Tesfai

Yohannes is a co-founder of Emanate Wireless responsible for the design and development of Emanate’s hardware products. Prior to Emanate, Yohannes was the lead architect for signal classification in Cognio’s Spectrum Analysis products. He designed and implemented various DSP algorithms for signal classification and was responsible for design, implementation and testing of key modules in Cognio’s SAgE (Spectrum Analysis Engine) chip. Yohannes was also chief architect of SCALE – Cognio’s RSSI based location algorithm which, takes in signal strength measurements from a devices transmission and a curately estimates its location.

At Cisco, Yohannes led a team of 7 engineers responsible for the design and development of Spectrum Intelligence and Beamforming features in Cisco’s next generation AP. He also led the design for Cisco’s market leading 3 spatial stream 802.11n Access Points. Yohannes has a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from University of Virginia and MS Electrical Engineering from University of Virginia. When away from work Yohannes enjoys time with his wife and three kids, soccer and has recently taken up the guitar.