Best Paper Award, EW2002 (European Wireless), 2002
NSF CAREER Award #0643954, 2006
COE Faculty Research Award, UIC, 2010
University of Illinois Scholar, 2015
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Information Theory Society, 2020–2022
Editorial roles: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2010–2014), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2014–2017), Elsevier Computer Communications Journal (2019–present), IEEE Transactions on Communications (2021–present)
Board of Governors member, IEEE Information Theory Society (2018–present)
U.S. Patent US 8,391,986 B2: “Apparatus for managing a neurological Disorder” (with Daniel Graupe and Ishita Basu)
PI/co-PI on multiple NSF grants, including fundamental tradeoffs in distributed systems and delay/reliability/rate tradeoffs in wireless broadcast channels
Background
Professor and Interim Department Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
Research interests span Information Theory, Communication Theory, and Biomedical AI
Information Theory: ultimate performance limits of multi-terminal networks, cache-aided networks, distributed coded computing, pliable/decentralized/secure index coding, wireless interference networks, asynchronous massive access and IoT systems
Communication Theory: co-design of communication and radar systems, 5G systems, ultra-reliable low-latency communications, coexistence of communication and radar
Biomedical AI: developing on-demand/adaptive/closed-loop deep brain stimulators (DBS) for Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor, with potential applications to epilepsy, depression, and chronic pain