Hamid Jafarkhani, Ph.D. | Communications 2025

Hamid Jafarkhani

Chancellor's Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine

Speech Title:

"Cooperative Wireless Networks"

Abstract:

We present a general description of cooperative wireless networks. Our emphasis is on the distributed nature of the network and the need for simultaneous transmission from different users. Then, we address the role of interference in such a distributed network and the corresponding challenges in designing reliable systems.

Bio:

Hamid Jafarkhani received the B.S. degree in electronics from Tehran University in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1994 and 1997, respectively.

From June 1996 to Sept. 1996, he was a summer intern at Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs). He joined AT&T Labs-Research as a Senior Technical Staff Member in Aug. 1997. Later he was promoted to a Principal Technical Staff Member. While at AT&T Labs, he and his colleagues invented space-time block coding, a MIMO technology, that has become an active area of research and is widely used in practice. He was with Broadcom Corp. as a Senior Staff Scientist from July 2000 to Sept. 2001. Currently, he is a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine where he is also the Director of Center for Pervasive Communications & Computing and the Conexant-Broadcom Endowed Chair.

Hamid Jafarkhani ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian universities in 1984. He was a co-recipient of the American Division Award of the 1995 Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Challenge. He received the best paper award of ISWC in 2002 and an NSF Career Award in 2003. He received the UCI Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Researchin 2006 and the School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award in 2007. Also, he was a co-recipient of the 2006 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Award in Wireless Communications and the 2009 best paper award of the Journal of Communications and Networks.

He was an associate editor for the IEEE Communications Letters form 2001-2005, an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2002-2007 and an editor for theIEEE Transactions on Communications from 2005-2007. He was a guest editor of the special issue on "MIMO-Optimized Transmission Systems for Delivering Data and Rich Content" for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing in 2008. He has been an area editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications since 2007.
Hamid Jafarkhani is listed as a highly cited researcher in isihighlycited.com. According to the Thomson Scientific, he is one of the top 10 most-cited researchers in the field of "computer science" during 1997-2007. He is a Fellow of AAAS, an IEEE Fellow, and the author of the book Space-Time Coding: Theory and Practice.