Salman Avestimehr

PROF. SALMAN AVESTIMEHR

I am a Professor and co-director of the Communication Sciences Institute at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Southern California. I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2005 and 2008. I do research in the areas of information theory, coding theory, and large-scale distributed computing and machine learning. I lead the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab at USC.