CV

EXPERIENCE
University of Michigan
‎‎‎‎ Assistant Professor	January 2017 – present
Visiting Assistant Professor	November 2016 – December 2016
Samsung Electronics, San Diego Mobile Solutions Lab, California USA
‎‎‎‎ Staff Research Engineer	July 2012 – November 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