Department: ECE
Cornell Net ID: asa66
Title: Assistant Professor

Office:
 Frank H T Rhodes Hall, Room 325
 Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone:
 607/255-9915

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 B.S. Sharif University of Technology 2003
 M.S. University of California, Berkeley 2005
 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 2008

A. Salman Avestimehr received his Ph.D. in 2008 and M.S. degree in 2005 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, he obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2003. He was also a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) at Caltech in 2008. His research interests include information theory, the theory of communications and its applications such as wireless communication systems and networks. He has been a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Special Issue on Interference Networks.

Prof. Avestimehr has received a number of awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2011 for “pushing the frontiers of information theory through its extension to complex wireless information networks”, the Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in 2011, the NSF CAREER award in 2010, the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize from the U.C. Berkeley EECS Department in 2008, and the Vodafone U.S. Foundation Fellows Initiative Research Merit Award in 2005.

 

Prof. Avestimehr's research interests include information theory, the theory of communications and its applications such as wireless communication systems and networks. The particular focus of his research group are:

• Approximation approaches to wireless network information theory
• Interplay between network knowledge and network capacity: information-theoretic perspective
• Source, channel and network coding
• Compressive sensing

 

ECE 4110: Random Signals in Communications and Signal Processing

ECE 5670: Digital Communications

ECE 5980: Advanced Topics in Network Information Flow

 

I. Shomorony and A. S. Avestimehr, “Sum Degrees-of-Freedom of Two-Unicast Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2011.

A. Vahid, C. Suh, and A. S. Avestimehr, "Interference Channels with Rate-Limited Feedback," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

V. Aggarwal, A. S. Avestimehr, and A. Subharwal, “On Achieving Local View Capacity Via Maximal Independent Graph Scheduling,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Interference Networks, Vol 57, No 5, May 2011.

A. Vahid, M. Maddah-Ali, and A. S. Avestimehr, ”Interference Channel with Binary Fading: Effect of Delayed Network State Information”, Proc. of Allerton Conference, UIUC, September 2011.

A. S. Avestimehr, S. N. Diggavi, and D. N. C. Tse, “Wireless Network Information Flow: A Deterministic Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 1872-1905, April 2011.

A. Sezgin, A. S. Avestimehr, M. Khajehnejad, and B. Hassibi, “Divide-and-conquer: Approaching the capacity of the two-pair bidirectional Gaussian relay network,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

S. Kim, T. Ho, M. Effros, and A. S. Avestimehr, ”Network error correction with unequal link capacities: upper bounds and capacities”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Facets of Coding: from Algorithms to Networks, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 1144-1164, February 2011.

A. Khajehnejad, W. Xu, A. S. Avestimehr, and B. Hassibi, “Analyzing Weighted l1 Minimization for Sparse Recovery with Nonuniform Sparse Models,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 1985-2001, May 2011.

Z. Shao, M. Chen, A. S. Avestimehr, and S. Li, “Cross-layer Optimization for Wireless Networks with Deterministic Channel”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol 57, No 9, September 2011.

A. Vahid, V. Aggarwal, A. S. Avestimehr, and A. Subharwal, ”On the Capacity of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Partial Network Knowledge”, in Proceedings of Allerton Conference, September 2010

V. Aggarwal, A. S. Avestimehr, and A. Subharwal, “Normalized Sum-Capacity of Interference Networks with Partial Information,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2010

A. S. Avestimehr, A. Sezgin, and D. N. C. Tse, “Capacity of the two-way relay channel within a constant gap,” European Transactions on Telecommunications, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 363-374, June 2010.

A. S. Avestimehr, and D. N. C. Tse, “Outage Capacity of the Fading Relay Channel in the Low SNR Regime,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1401–1415, April 2007.

For more information visit: http://people.ece.cornell.edu/avestimehr/