Kavitha ferreira

• Led and mentored the wireless systems team in delivering the complete wireless architecture for Humane’s first-generation AI wearable, ensuring robust desense and multi-radio coexistence to support critical user journeys under real-world usage.
• Drove software-based desense and thermal mitigation, dynamically controlling radio behavior based on RF, thermal, and system state to preserve responsiveness and reliability during peak user workloads.
• Leveraged lab and field wireless telemetry to understand real-world system behavior and drive architectural changes that improved latency consistency, power efficiency, and RF robustness, enabling stable user experience at scale and a foundation for future product evolution.

• Led RF architecture, validation, and bring-up for VR headsets, including Quest 2, Quest Pro, and Quest 3, spanning Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and emerging ranging technologies.
• Defined VR-specific wireless requirements for latency determinism, throughput, reliability, and coexistence, shaping product architecture across multiple generations.
• Solved complex multi-radio coexistence and desense challenges in compact XR form factors with aggressive compute, camera, and sensor pipelines.
• Aligned wireless behavior with XR critical user journeys under real-world RF congestion.
• Managed and mentored engineers, while maintaining hands-on architectural ownership across shipping platforms.

• Led RF design, desense, and EMC architecture and validation for the Nest Protect project, covering Wi-Fi, BLE, Zigbee, and LTE/3G/2G technologies.
• Led an organization-wide range study for Nest Protect to define the Critical User Journey for in-home connectivity, gathering real-world home size and layout data, and correlating it with Zigbee range measurements to drive protocol selection and system architecture decisions.

• Contributed to system-level RF validation, debug and HW/SW coexistence architecture for high-volume consumer platforms for Wi-Fi, BT, and Cellular technologies.
• Brought up online testing for coex test-cases in high-volume manufacturing factories in Asia.

Researched, developed, and validated communication system models for a co-existence interference prediction simulation toolkit called EMIT (Electromagnetic Interference Toolkit), part of the HFFS design tool.

• Established and led the Wireless New Technology Initiative (NTI) group to define forward-looking wireless and sensing architectures across HP/Poly platforms.
• Invented and architected a patent-pending Room Sensing solution using wireless connectivity as a first-order detection signal, delivering a Rev-1 architecture based on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi signal behavior that mitigated false positives, missed detections, and unstable proximity behavior observed in the field.
• Owning the Rev-1 → Rev-2 evolution by proposing and leading a UWB-based localization POC, positioning UWB on both PCs and Poly devices as a product-level requirement to unlock reliable, scalable localization, and driving cross-platform trade-offs to inform a go/no-go decision.
• Led a POC evaluation of Ixana Wi-R body-worn wireless technology as a potential replacement for Bluetooth, assessing its ability to reduce always-on power consumption while meeting latency and reliability constraints.