Education

NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (Spring 2017 – Summer 2021)

• Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
  • Advisor: Dr. Huaiyu Dai
  • Co-advisor: Dr. Ismail Guvenc
  • Dissertation: On applications of optimization techniques in UAV communication, resource allocation, and adversarial attacks

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran (Fall 2012 – Summer 2014)

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering – Communication Systems

  • Advisor: Dr. Vahid Shah-Mansouri

  • Thesis: Price-based Data offloading in Heterogenous Networks

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran (Fall 2008 – Summer 2012)

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering – Electronics

  • Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Maymandi-Nejad

  • Thesis: Design and Implementation of an RFID Module connected to Internet

Professional Experience

NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (Spring 2017 – Summer 2021)

• Research Assistant (Spring 2017 – Summer 2021)
  • Trajectory design and resource allocation for mmWave UAV networks
  • Decision-based balck-box adversarial attacks
  • On the effectiveness of adversarial training against adversarial attacks

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA, (Summer 2020)

• CRD Research Intern
  • Bayesian optimization for black-box optimization

Docomo Innovations, Inc., Palo alto, CA, (Summer 2019)

• Research Intern
  • Wireless channel dimension reduction using tSNE, UMAP, and autoencoders

Skills

• Programming: MATLAB, Python

• Simulation: Simulink

• Applications: LaTeX, Microsoft Word/PowerPoint/Excel/Visio

Teaching

I have served as a teaching assistant for several courses at NC State University Matlab Laboratory assistant, Electrical Circuits Laboratory, Signal and Systems, and Computer Networks.

Reviewer for:

• IEEE Transaction on Communications
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications
• IEEE Access
• IEEE Journal of Internt of Things
• IEEE Communication Letters
• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters