Dr. Michael Ramalho is a prolific inventor with over 50 issued patents
spanning signal processing, communications theory and data networking. He has
worked in a variety of engineering, applied research and management roles for
Bell Labs, Telcordia, Cisco Systems, as Chief Telephony Technologist for an
early VoIP startup (Voxware) and previously and again now as a Prometheus Inc.
Principal Scientist. He holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and a M.Eng.
from Cornell University. Michael is known for his pioneering work in
reverberant room information transfer via design and application of a new
ultrasound Discrete Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) system which uses subsets
of the Prometheus Orthonormal Set (PONS) codes. The resulting system is used
in tens of thousands of Cisco Systems cloud-connected Telepresence endpoints.
He is also known for
early Internet Telephony and lossless media coding for Voice over IP (VoIP).
Michael is active in many IEEE activities including serving as the Florida
West Coast Communications and Signal Processing Vice-Chair, ICC 1992 Technical
Program Committee (TPC) Vice-Chair and Globecom 1988 TPC Member. His volunteer
work includes board participation in educational settings (Rutgers CAIP
Industrial Advisory Board) and startups.
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