Interview with Dr. Maha Achour, CEO of Metawave Corporation

January 27, 2021

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Today I am joined by Maha Achour, CEO & CTO of Metawave Corporation, a startup focusing on high performance radar for highly automated vehicles and mm-wave 5G solutions.

She also co-founded and led Glass Dyenamics, a startup company that is focusing on commercializing cutting-edge technologies in sensing and mobile communication markets. Previously, she held key management and technical positions at Rayspan Corporation, where she was founder and Chief Technology Officer, and also worked in leadership and technical positions for San Diego Research Center, UlmTech, Optical Access, LightPointe, and Tiernan Communications. Her responsibilities spanned from working closely with top university professors to advance research labs, and was deeply involved in advanced technologies to build Intellectual Property portfolios of 120+ patents. At Metawave, Rayspan, and Lightpointe, she secured funding from tier one Venture Capital firms such as Khosla ventures and Sequoia Capital, and from strategic investors including Toyota AI Venture, Hyundai, Infineon, and other leading companies.

Dr. Maha Achour brings more than 25 years of proven success in the design, development, manufacturing, management and marketing of RF, microwave, and optical communication systems and subsystems. During her professional experience, Dr. Achour created, developed, and marketed technologies and products to consumer electronics and telecommunication system providers using direct sales and licensing business models. Her strong analytical, engineering, and physics skills have allowed her to solve challenging problems from channel modeling, coding, and modulation, to advanced RF and optical front-end optimizations using single and multiple propagating channels.

Dr. Achour holds a doctorate degree in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and she completed the Master Degree Program in Wireless Communication Theory and Systems, at University of California at San Diego (UCSD). She has authored over 30 publications in electrical engineering and physics and holds more than 50 granted patents and 70 pending applications.