About Me

Education:

      • Postdoctoral Research Associate (Data Science Laboratory)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA


      • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Thesis: Device-to-device Communication

Adviser: Giuseppe Caire and Alexandros Dimakis


      • M.Sc. in Communication Systems

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Thesis: Efficient Linear Programming Decoding

Adviser: Ralf Koetter


      • B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran


Honors and Awards:

      • Participated and won 1st prize in Target data challenge ($10,000), April 2016. (Links: 1 & 2)
      • Received the Viterbi School of Engineering Doctoral Fellowship award to pursue Ph.D, 2009.
      • Graduated with distinction and recognized as the top student of the MSCE program, Munich, Germany 2008.
      • Awarded the Stibet scholarship (supported by MSCE program and DAAD) in December 2007, because of the high academic performance.

Reviewer for:

      • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory/ Signal processing/ Wireless Communications/ Communications/ Vehicular Technology, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.
      • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), IEEE InternationalSymposium on Network Coding (NetCod), IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication (SPAWC), IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM).