[5] Rakib received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Technion University in Israel.
[9][15][16][8] As part of Terayon, he also developed data transmission methods utilizing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and S-CDMA.
[22] In 2004, Rakib co-founded Novafora, a company that developed microprocessors for advanced video applications.
[27][28] They met at one of Hadani's lectures about Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) at the University of Texas at Austin.
[29][30][31] and founded the company after Rakib devised the idea to apply OTFS to wireless technology and signal processing.
[30][32][33] In 2012, Rakib founded Gainspeed, a company specializing in DAA (Distributed Access Architecture).