# Soham Desai

> Wireless Systems at Skylo | Satellite comms, Underwater comms, 5G/6G |

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sohamdesai

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer, CTO Group @ Skylo
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA
Leading efforts for an efficient NB-IoT over GEO satellite network across 3 continents. 

R&D, system architecture, cross layer knowledge, RAN (l1, l2, l3), Core, NAS, satellite power management, interference management, emissions.

Intellectual property and innovations for class of service, dynamic power allocation for satellite systems, non-ip voice over NTN. 

System performance and certification testing and lab management, IoT, mobile phone, chipsets, modules. Link budget, spectrum analyzer, SDR, Ubuntu, command line, MATLAB.

### Senior Wireless Systems Engineer @ Skylo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Senior Engineer  (Modem R&D Team) @ Samsung Electronics America
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
Samsung Cellular SOC R&D. Work on 5G/LTE Physical and Layer one issues and algorithms.

Uplink performance enhancements 5G/LTE. 
Uplink algorithms: Antenna switching, beam switching (FR2)
Project owner and lead developer for Time Averaging SAR (TAS) algorithm for optimized power sharing between different RATs (5G, 4G, 3G), Wifi and Bluetooth. 
5G spec group for Rel 16 3GPP study.
Customer facing profile.

### Graduate Student Researcher @ University at Buffalo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Buffalo, New York
Graduate Research Assistant working under Professor Zhi Sun on Underwater MIMO communication.
Work discription:
•	Proposed and developed a hybrid underwater distributed MIMO system using Acoustic antennas for beamforming and magnetic induction antennas for synchronization amongst the distributed transceivers. 
•	Compared carrier frequency and clock timing synchronization capabilities first numerically and then experimentally for a master-slave configuration.
•	Performed numerical analysis on MATLAB for SNR, BER and Throughput for beamforming and space time coding using the proposed synchronization method.
•	Validated the system using experiments for a transmit beamforming and Alamouti space time coding scheme in an in-lab water tank using Software-Defined Radios (USRP N210), Acoustic Hydrophones, Magnetic Induction antennas, GNU radio companion and MATLAB.

### Co-Founder @ Airolyzr
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai, India
Airolyzr (Ecomappers) manufactures air and noise pollution measuring devices which can wirelessly sends live data to its website and mobile application. 
My Contributions:
-Developed the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) based prototype and working model 
-Worked with various microcontrollers like LinkitOne, Intel Edison, Arduino to design the project 
-Calibrated the pollution sensors at The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute
-Procured funding and investment from Courage Digital Private Limited
-Led collaborations with K.J. Somaiya Hospital and K.J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce for research purposes
-Executed deals and designed the products to be installed across Somaiya campus


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University at Buffalo

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar

### M.D.Bhatia High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/s-desai

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Last updated: 2026-04-01