Ahmad is currently a Ph.D. student at Sorbonne Université and a research assistant at the Communication Systems Department of EURECOM - Sophia Antipolis, under the supervision of Prof. Derya Malak. He is working on “Distributed Compression and Computation Techniques over Communication Networks” in his thesis, which aims to optimize memory, communication, and computation cost tradeoffs in distributed systems utilizing coding and information theory concepts.

He received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Communication Systems at K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU), the oldest and one of the most prestigious technical universities in Iran. He worked on “Optimizing Elastic Optical Networks Design using Probabilistic Shaping” in his M.Sc. thesis. He also obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at KNTU. His B.Sc. thesis title was “Design and Implementation of Linear Equalizer Software for Fiber-Optic Channel”.