Education:

• Ph.D. Candidate in the Electrical Engineering (systems)
• M.Sc. in Mathematics (stochastic and optimization), 2009
• M.Sc. in Financial Engineering , 2009
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 2007
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 2005

Research Interests:

• Network Information Theory
• Digital Communications
• Stochastic Calculus
• Random Graph Theory

Honors & Awards:

• Awarded a first prize at the Engineering Graduate Symposium at the University of Michigan, 2009
• Awarded the Information Theory Society Best Student Paper Award, Seoul, Korea, 2009
• Finalist for Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2009, 2010
• Finalist for Rackham Fellowship for Outstanding International Graduate Students, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2006
• Ranked 8th among more than 70,000 participants on the Iranian MBA Schools –M.Sc nationwide entrance exam, Tehran, Iran, June 2005
• Semifinalist student in Nationwide Physics, Computer Olympiad, Iran, 1998, 1999
• Ranked 1st in chess competition, Markazi State, Iran, 1993, 1996

Publications:

• Error Exponents for Discrete Memoryless Multiple-Access Channels: Lower Bounds [PDF]
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2009.
• Error Exponents for Discrete Memoryless Multiple-Access Channels: Upper Bounds
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2010.
• Typicality Graphs: Large Deviation Analysis [PDF]
  with R Venkataramanan, D. Krithivasan, S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2010.
• A New Converse Theorem on the Capacity Region of Correlated Sources over Multiple-Access Channels
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2010.
• A New Sphere Packing bound on the Maximal Error Probability for Discrete Memory-less Multiple-Access Channels [PDF]
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.
• Some Notes On The Fix Free Codes [PDF]
  with A. Kakhbod and M. Zadimoghadam
  Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, USA, Mar. 2008.
• A New Universal Random Coding Bound for Average Probability Error Exponent for Multiple-Access Channels [PDF]
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, USA, Mar. 2009.
• A New Universal Upper Bound for Average Probability Error Exponent for Multiple-Access Channels
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  Information Theory and Applications, San Diego, USA, Feb. 2009.
• New Bounds on the Maximal Error Exponent for Multiple-Access Channels [PDF]
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, South Korea, Jun. 2009.( IEEE Society Best Paper Award).
• Typicality Graphs and Their Properties [PDF]
  with R Venkataramanan, D. Krithivasan, S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, USA, Jun 2010.
• A New Upper Bound on the Average Error Exponent for Multiple-Access Channels [PDF]
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, USA, Jun 2010.
• Upper and Lower bounds on the reliability function of the Discrete Memoryless Multiple-Access Channels
  with A. Anastasopoulos and S. S. Pradhan
  To be submitted to Information Theory and Applications, San Diego, USA.
• An Inner Bound for the Maximal Error Probability Capacity of Discrete Memory-less Multiple-Access Channels
  with A. Anastasopoulos and S. S. Pradhan
  To be submitted to IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• A New Converse Theorem on the Capacity Region of Correlated Sources over Multiple-Access Channels
  with S. S. Pradhan and A. Anastasopoulos
  To be submitted to IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Teaching:

• Primary Instructor for Probability and Stochastic Processes, Financial Engineering Summer Program, 2009, 2010
• Primary Instructor for MATLAB programming with applications in Finance, Financial Engineering Summer Program 2010
• Teaching Assistant for Signal and Systems, 2010

Membership & Activities:

• Member of Actuarial/Financial Mathematics group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Included in the Cambridge Who's Who Registry of Distinguished Individuals for 2009/2010
• Member of USA Honor Society, 2009
• Member of Magna Cum Laude, National Scholars Honor Society, 2007-Now
• Board member of Sharif University of Technology Association, Michigan Chapter, 2008-Now
• Board member of the Iranian Graduate Students Association, University of Michigan, 2006
• Member of RESANA (Sharif Electrical Engineering Association), 2001-2005
• Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc) since 2001