EXPERIENCE | |
University of Michigan | |
Associate Professor | June 2022 – present |
Assistant Professor | January 2017 – May 2022 |
Samsung Electronics, San Diego Mobile Solutions Lab, California USA | |
Staff Research Engineer | July 2012 – December 2016 |
Research and development on the algorithm design, implementation, and verification of advanced receivers for HSPA,LTE,LTE-A, and WiFi. Research on channel coding for the next generation of wireless systems. | |
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose Research Center, California USA | |
Visiting Researcher | Fall 2011 |
Designing error-correcting codes for hard disk drives and solid state drives. | |
University of California San Diego | |
Instructor for ECE259C (Advanced coding) | Fall 2015 |
Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant | June 2008 – June 2012 |
EDUCATION | |
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California USA | |
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering | June 2012 |
Thesis: List Decoding of Subspace Codes and Rank- Metric Codes Advisor: Professor Alexander Vardy | |
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering | June 2009 |
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran | |
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering | June 2007 |
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (as advisor), Qualcomm, 2021
- For the project “Machine Learning Designs for Universal Decoders”.
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2020
- For the the project “Coding Subspaces: Error Correction, Compression, and Applications”.
- Best Interactive Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshop (Globecom), 2018.
- For the paper “Outage Probability Analysis of Uplink NOMA over Ultra-High Speed FSO-Backhauled Systems”.
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on RFID, 2015.
- For the paper “Coding for Tag Collision Recovery”.
- Finalist for the Information Theory Society Paper Award, 2013.
- For the paper “Achieving the Secrecy Capacity of Wiretap Channels Using Polar Codes”.
- Shannon Memorial Fellowship, University of California San Diego, 2011.
- For demonstrating outstanding achievements in information theory.
- Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2010.
- For the paper “Achieving the Secrecy Capacity of Wiretap Channels Using Polar Codes”.
- Silver medalist at the 44th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Tokyo, Japan, 2003.
- Silver medalist at the 43rd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2002.
- Gold medalist at the 20th Iran National Mathematical Olympiad, 2002.
- Gold medalist at the 19th Iran National Mathematical Olympiad, 2001.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (April 2020-present)
- Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE Globecom (2021-present)
- Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE ICC (2020-present)
- Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE ITW (2019-present)
- Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE ISIT (2019-present)
- Technical Program Committee Member for 2018 IEEE Globecom Workshop
- Technical Program Committee Co-chair for 2016 IEEE RFID Conference
- Technical Program Committee Member for 2016 ACM NanoCom
EDITORIAL SERVICE
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
- SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
- IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
- IEEE GLOBECOM
- Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC)
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
- IEEE Information Theory Workshop
- IEEE Communication Letters
- Siam Journal on Discrete Mathematics