Peiman Amini is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, where he serves as the lead architect for Cisco’s enterprise access point portfolio and helps define next-generation wireless system architectures. He has made significant contributions to location technologies and to the 6 GHz spectrum expansion, enabling new spectrum capabilities and advanced positioning services at scale, including foundational work supporting Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) through OpenAFC.
Peiman holds a PhD in Wireless Communications from the University of Utah. He previously worked at Broadcom as a Senior Staff Scientist, contributing to multiple 802.11n and 802.11ac chipset designs and participating in IEEE 802.11 and Wi-Fi Alliance standard development. He later led the system architecture team at Netgear, helping shape flagship products including Nighthawk routers, Orbi mesh systems, and Arlo security cameras. At ON Semiconductor, he directed product design for automotive wireless chipsets and advanced mmWave fixed wireless access solutions.
Earlier in his career, Peiman’s work in autonomous mobile robotics earned international recognition. He is a prolific inventor with 150+ issued patents and 3,000+ citations, and is widely recognized for driving innovation in Wi-Fi, sensing, location, and wireless technologies globally.