Biography: Syed Ali Jafar received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India in 1997, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) , Pasadena USA in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA in 2003. His industry experience includes positions at Lucent Bell Labs , Qualcomm Inc. and Hughes Software Systems. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA USA. His research interests include multiuser information theory and wireless communications.
Dr. Jafar received the NSF CAREER award in 2006 and the ONR Young
Investigator Award in 2008. He received the UC Irvine Engineering
Faculty of the Year award in 2006. He is a co-recipient of the DARPA ITMANET Young Investigator Team award. Dr. Jafar serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and for IEEE Communications Letters. |
