Education:

Sep. 2008 – Now: PhD candidate, Communications and Networking, EE Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
Advisor: Prof. Sumit Roy
Total GPA: 3.95/4.0

Sep. 2004 – Feb. 2007: M.Sc. in Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Advisor: Dr. Alireza Nasiri Avanaki, Dr. Mohammad R. Pakravan
Total GPA: 18.73/20 (rank 1st in the faculty/over 40 students)

Sep. 2000 – Sep. 2004: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, ECE Department, IsfahanUniversity of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
Total GPA: 17.22/20 (rank 7th in the faculty/over 120 students)

Publications:

*  Journals:

• D. Maas, M.H. Firooz, J. Zhang, N. Patwari, S.K. Kasera, “Channel Sounding for the Masses: Low Complexity GNU 802.11b Channel Impulse Response Estimation”, IEEE Tran. Wireless Communications System, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Jan. 2012.

• M.H. Firooz, A.R. Nasiri-Avanaki, M.R. Pakravan, K. Ronasi, “A fast and reliable multi-sender algorithm for peer-to-peer networks”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Vol. 30, Issue 3, pp. 733-740, May 2009.

•  M.H. Firooz, K. Ronasi, M.R. Pakravan, A.R. Nasiri-Avanaki, “A Multi-sender Multicast Algorithm for Media Streaming on Peer-to-Peer Networks”, Journal of Computer Communications, Vol.30, Issue 10, pp. 2191-2200, July 2007.

*  Conferences:

Professional Activities:

Honors and Achievements:

Theses:

PhD research area: “Applications of Network Coding and Compressed Sensing in Network Tomography and  Data Dissemination”

Supervisor: Prof. Sumit Roy, University of Washington.

M.Sc. Thesis: “Multimedia Streaming Over Peer-to-Peer networks”

Supervisor: Dr. A. R. Nasiri-Avanaki, University of Tehran.

Co-Supervisor: Dr. M.R. Pakravan, Sharif University of Tech.

 

B.Sc. Thesis: “Implementation of ITU G.729 Standard (voice/audio compression standard) on TMS320C31 (TI DSP)”

Supervisor: Dr. S. Sadri, Isfahan University of Tech.

 

Teaching Experiment:

• Teaching Assistant, "Filters and Circuits Synthesis", Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (Fall 2003) 
• Teaching Assistant, “Communication Systems I”, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (spring 2003)
• Teaching Assistant, “Signals and Systems”, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (fall 2002)

Work Experience:

• Research assistant of Prof. Sumit Roy, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2008-Now
  
• Internship, Teranovi Technologies Co., Seattle, WA, Sept. 2011-Jan. 2012. 
• Research assistant of Prof. Neal Patwari, U. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007-2008
• Research assistant of Prof. Pakravan, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, (2005-2007)
• Basamad-Negar Co., Tehran, Iran (fall 2005 - summer 2007)
• IranTelecommunicationResearchCenter (fall 2005 and winter 2006)
• Sarv-Net Co. Isfahan, Iran (spring 2004 - winter 2005)

 I have worked on the following projects:

 

• Implementation of Adhoc mode of 80211b/g in Madwifi.. Madwifi. is a Linux kernel driver for WLAN devices with Atheros chipsets. TeraNovi Technologie Co.
• Design and Develop a framework for three-node relay communication in SORA platform. SORA is a Software De.fined Radio developed by Microsoft. Wireless Commuinications Lab, UW.
• Implementation of Network Coding in OPNET, Source code is available online, Funlab, UW.
  
• 802.11b Channel sounder in GNURadio, SPAN Lab., U of Utah.
• 802.11b full-bandwidth receiver for GNURadio, SPAN Lab., U. of Utah. This is available online and from June 2008 it has received more than 800 downloads.
• Location Distinction System developed as a joint program in GNUradio and MATLAB, SPAN Lab., U of Utah.
  
• Implementation of Content Server and network part Of DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) in C++, Basamad-Negar, (OS:  Linux Fedora Core 12)
• A simple web browser in .NET, Basamad-Negar.
• Implementation of MPEG-1 on FPGA Spartan-3, Sarv-Net.
• Design and Implementation of VoIP in C#.NET and its electrical interface, Sarv-Net.
• Painted Network Algorithm in C, Source code and executable file is available online, Funlab, UW.

Programming Skills

• Proficient in: C/C++, Socket Programming, Java, Verilog, MATLAB/Simulink, Linux driver programming.
• Familiar with: 

• Hardware: FPGA programming, TI TMS Programming, ColdFire Microcontrollers
• Software: OPNET, Perl, PHP, NS-2

 

Research Interests:

• Data communication networks
• Network Coding
• Cognitive Radio
• LTE and LTE-advance
• Network Tomography (Wired and Wireless)
• Compressed Sensing and Sparse Analysis (applications to signal processing)
• Channel Measurement and Estimation in Wireless Networks
• Cooperative Networks and Relay Networks 
• (Combinatorial) Optimization
• Information Theory

Graduate Courses Passed:

• Electronic Circuit Design (spring 2004 during B.Sc Period)
• Spatial topics in DSP (spring 2004 during B.Sc Period)
• Coding Theory (fall 2004)
•  Stochastic Processes (fall 2004) (Top student)
• Advanced Digital Signal Processing (spring 2005) (Top student)
• Data Communication Networks (spring 2005) (Top student)
• Machine Vision (spring 2005)
• Advanced Communication Systems (fall 2005) (Top student)
• Special topics on communication (fall 2005) (Top student)
• Bio-inspired Computing (fall 2005) (Top student)
• Advance embedded systems (fall 2007) (Top student)
• Software Radio (Spring 2008) (Top student)
  
• Estimation Theory (Summer 2008) (Top student)
• Information Theory (Fall 2009)(Top student)

Math Courses:

• Fundamental concepts in Analysis II
• Measure Theory
• Introduction to Modern Algebra I,II
• Advance Probability I
• Network Optimization
• Linear Programming
  
• Stochastic Process and Markov Chain

Developed Frameworks:    

• Channel measurment for 802.11b
  

   Developed in FPGA of USRP for GnuRadio

   Supervisor: Prof. N. Patwari, SPAN Lab., ECE Department, University of Utah 
  

   2007-2008

  
  

• LocDis: Location Distinction System

 Developed in GnuRadio, MATLAB