Personal Information
							
								
									Nationality: Iranian 
									Date of Birth: 1978 
									
									Motherland: 	Yazd, Iran 
								
							
						 
					
							
						
							Academic Positions
							
								
									Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology,
									Tehran, Iran, Oct. 2009-Present. 
									Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
									working with Prof. Fady Alajaji and Prof. Tamás Linder
									Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 2007-Oct. 2009. 
									
								
							
						 
					
					
						
							Educational Background
							
								
									Ph.D. in Communications, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
									Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2007.
									M.Sc. in Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering Department,
									Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Jan. 2003.
									B.Sc. in Electronics, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
									College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, July 2000.
									Diploma in Mathematics & Physics, Yazd, Iran, 1996.
									
								
							
						 
					
					
						
						
							Research Interests
							
								
									 Multi-user Information Theory 
									 Joint Source-Channel Coding 
									 Artificial Intelligence in Signal Processing and Data Science 
									 Cooperative Communications
									 Rate-Distortion Regions and Capacity Limits of Wireless Networks
									 Information Security