He was a founding member of Velio communications in 1999 (acquired by Rambus & LSI Logic) where he architected different generations of high density serial links for networking switches. At Rambus, he was in charge of next-generation multi-Gbps backplane transceivers. In 2005, he co-founded Aquantia where he serves as company’s Chief Architect. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Sharif University of Technology in 1994, and his Master’s & Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University in 1996 & 1999 respectively. Ramin Farjad has more than 32 Patents.