Simeon Furrer
Research Staff Member
Electrical engineering
IBM Research
Switzerland
Biography
Simeon Furrer received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, in 1999 and 2005, respectively. He was a Pre-Doctoral Researcher of Short-Range Radio Communication and Sensor Networks with IBM Research – Zurich, in Rüschlikon, Switzerland. He was a Principal Scientist with Broadcom Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA, from 2005 to 2010, where he was involved in the design and architecture of IEEE 802.11n-compliant multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless local-area network (WLAN) chipsets. Dr. Furrer joined the Cloud and Computing Infrastructure Department of IBM Research – Zurich in 2010 as a Research Staff Member. He is currently focusing on advanced signal-processing algorithms for tape read channels and servo control aspects to improve storage capacity. His current research interests include data communication and storage systems, signal processing, detection, and estimation.
Research Interest
Electrical engineering
