Rachid Alameh

“Rachid is an “innovation star” at Motorola, holding more than 100 granted patents in wide range of technology fields. Rachid worked closely with me and my team on several emerging Machine Learning projects, at Motorola Mobility, including scene understanding, facial recognition, gesture recognition, speech recognition, and others. Rashid’s innovative mind and solid technical skills have greatly benefited the various Machine Leaning efforts at Motorola ranging from problem definition, to setting development direction, and ending with delivering an impressive and viable problem solutions time after time. Many such proposals and developments ended up being patented due to their uniqueness and novelty. He has impressed the team and I with his comprehensive knowledge in this field, his can-do attitude, his out-of-box thinking, and his always-on eagerness to learn and investigate -- digging into the hardest of problems we were facing and returning quickly with a working solution or a best direction to pursue that has not been thought of. Rachid has a great business sense and a strong customer-oriented attitude in the field of current and future product development and always designing with consumer needs top in his mind. He is considered a subject matter expert on a number of technology fields including device interactions, user interface, thermal detection, sensors, wearables, and future product concepts. His expertise is regularly solicited by the SLT and product groups. Rashid’s 30-year experience in innovation, research, development, and leadership makes him a great asset for any company he joins. It is my great privilege to work with Rachid. ”

“Motorola Mobility, Inc. Chicago, IL 60654, USA From: Martin Pais, PhD, PE Director and Fellow, Materials and Mechanical Analysis Group To Whom It May Concern Motorola is a global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and wireless solutions. Specifically within our business we develop the “cell phone” technology, all the way from inception of the component technologies to integration into a handset and, manufacturing. The field of cellular communications is highly competitive with the need for differentiating user experiences and novel methods of technology integration determining success. I have known Mr. Rachid Alameh since 2004 both as a colleague and friend. I consider him a gifted technologist who with his vast engineering background in electronics, combined with his keen insight has led to his ability to leverage sensors and the opportunities they afford to enable novel user interactions, to attain elegant, workable solutions. Over the past two years Rachid has taken a deep dive into harnessing the innate gesture language inherent in personal communication to provide a non-contact means to interact and drive the functionality of the mobile. He has further been able to extract and extend the functionality to a seemingly seventh sense of presence, using this to waken the device and authenticate the user, all at extremely low power consumptions. Rachid exhibits a great deal of passion, a positive, indefatigable and assiduous work ethic, these characteristics make him a very valuable asset to any organization. He puts in an incredible effort to realize excellent success and has made exemplary contributions to his field. Rachid has clearly demonstrated proficiency through his prolific creativity (over 90 patents), his integration of technologies in shipped products (over 24), and his ability to collaborate across multi-physics disciplinary teams to deliver on business commitments. I consider Rachid to be in the top 1% within his level at Motorola. I believe with his technical expertise and drive he will make significant contributions to his profession.”