Biography:

• Ahmad is currently a Ph.D. student at Sorbonne University and a research assistant at the communication systems department of EURECOM in 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”.

Attended Events:

• The 6G Wireless Foundations Forum in July 2023, organized by the communication systems department of EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France.

• The 5G Advanced for the Industry of the Future Workshop in September 2023, organized by the communication systems department of EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France.

• The France PhD Workshop on Information Theory in June 2024, organized by Prof. Michèle Wigger at Télécom Paris, Paris, France.

• The IEEE European School of Information Theory in July 2024, organized by Prof. Alex Alvarado from the ICT Lab of TU/e in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

• The Lavender Summit on "Towards 2030 Wireless: Bridging Theory and Practice Workshop" in October 2024, organized by Prof. Jean-Claude Belfiore from Huawei Paris Research Center in Cannes, France.

• The 6G Forge, organized by TelcoForge in April 2025 at EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France.

• The France–Japan Beyond 5G/6G Joint Research Workshop in July 2025, organized by Inria Sophia in Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France. 

• The IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking in July 2025, organized by Prof. Dirk Slock in Nice, France.

• The Workshop on Distributed Computing, Optimization & Learning WDCL 2025 in September 2025, organized by Rawad Bitar from TUM and Profs. Derya Malak and Petros Elia from EURECOM, in Munich, Germany.