ABOUT ME
SELECTED AWARDS
I am a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Southern California. I received my Ph.D. in 2008 and M.S. degree in 2005 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, I obtained my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2003. I was an Assistant Professor at the ECE school of Cornell University from 2009 to 2013. I was also a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) at Caltech in 2008. I lead the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab at USC. I am currently a co-organizer of ISIT 2020 in Los Angeles. I am also a fellow of IEEE.
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IEEE Information Theory Society James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award
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Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
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IEEE Fellow
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Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama
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National Science Foundation CAREER award
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Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from AFOSR
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Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award
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David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize
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Okawa Foundation Research Award
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Vodafone US Foundation Research Award
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Best Paper Awards from ISIT and Globecom Conferences
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Presidential Award from Iranian President Khatami