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Hossein Pishro-Nik

faculty
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Position: 
Professor ECE
Office: 
215K Marcus Hall
Phone: 
(413) 577-0834
Homepage: 
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Interests

  • Information Theoretic Privacy & Security
     
  • Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Networks
     
  • Coding and Information Theory
     
  • Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
     
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems

Research

  • Communication systems and networks, sensor networks, error control coding, information theory, signal processing for communications and data storage, algorithms and security. 

Biography

I am a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I received a B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. My research focuses on the mathematical analysis of communication systems, in particular, Error Control Coding, Wireless Networks, and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.  I received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from UMass, and an Outstanding Graduate Research Award from Georgia Tech.

Activities & Awards

UMASS Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2009. NSF CAREER Award, 2009. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009. ECE Graduate Excellence Award. Georgia Institute of technology, 2005. CSIP Outstanding Research Award Georgia Institute of technology, 2005. IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Information Theory Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society.