Serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, and on both the Executive and Technical Program Committees of several IEEE conferences. His research has been recognized by several awards including Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Telecommunication Research Laboratories (TRLabs) Distinction Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Cutting Edge Research Award from the College of Engineering, Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award of the School of ECE, Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education (SCEEE) Young Faculty Development Award, and the Faculty Research Innovation Award from Sony Inc. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Research Experience
Currently the John Pippin Chair Professor and ECE-GTRI Fellow at the School of ECE, Georgia Tech. He is the founder of the SENTINEL Research Lab, which has a multidisciplinary flavor working in four intertwined broad areas of Information, Processing/Learning, Communications, and Decision Making.
Education
Holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech.
Background
Research interests include information, processing/learning, communications, and decision making. Specifically, he applies machine learning and logical reasoning, statistics and information theory to fundamental research problems in semantic communications, reinforcement learning, learning via logical reasoning, neuro-logical reasoning in Language Models, learning in distributed or federated environments, causal discovery and probabilistic modeling, and biomarker sensing/communication in biology.