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| EXPERIENCE |
| University of Michigan |
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Assistant Professor |
January 2017 – present
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Visiting Assistant Professor |
November 2016 – December 2016
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| Samsung Electronics, San Diego Mobile Solutions Lab, California USA |
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Staff Research Engineer |
July 2012 – November 2016
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- 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.
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| Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose Research Center, California USA |
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Visiting Researcher |
Fall 2011
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- Designing error-correcting codes for hard disk drives and solid state drives.
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| University of California San Diego |
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Instructor for ECE259C (Advanced coding) |
Fall 2015
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Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant |
June 2008 – June 2012
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| EDUCATION |
| University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California USA |
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Ph.D., Electrical Engineering |
June 2012
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- Thesis: List Decoding of Subspace Codes and Rank-Metric Codes
- Advisor: Professor Alexander Vardy
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M.Sc., Electrical Engineering |
June 2009
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| Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran |
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B.Sc., Electrical Engineering |
June 2007
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| AWARDS AND HONORS |
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- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2020
- For the the project “Coding Subspaces: Error Correction, Compression, and Applications”.
- 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.
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| PROFESSIONAL SERVICE |
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- Technical Program Committee Member for 2019 IEEE ITW
- Technical Program Committee Member for 2019 IEEE ISIT
- 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
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| EDITORIAL SERVICE |
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- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- 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
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