Ph.D. Students | M.S. Students | Alumni
Principal Investigator
 | Hamid Bahrami, Ph.D. Research Interests: Wireless communications, information theory, communication network design and applications of signal processing in communications Office/Phone: ASEC 351, 7940 Email: hrb@uakron.edu Web: http://blogs.uakron.edu/bahrami/ Hamid Bahrami is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Akron, OH, USA. His main areas of research include wireless communication, information theory, and applications of signal processing in communication. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 2008. From 2007 to 2009 and prior to joining the University of Akron, he was a scientist at Wavesat Inc. Montreal, Canada. Dr. Bahrami has B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran, Iran, respectively. He has served as the Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, thee Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (formerly European Transactions on Telecommunications), as the Guest Editor for The Scientific World Journal and as the Technical Program Committee member of numerous IEEE conferences including IEEE GLOBECOM and International Conference on Communications (ICC). He is currently a Senior Member of the IEEE, the IEEE Communications Society, and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. |
Postdoctoral Fellow
 | Mehdi Maleki-Pirbazari Research Interests: MIMO systems, multi-user communications, cooperative communications and cognitive radio networks Office/Phone: ASEC 605, 5991 Email: mm158@zips.uakron.edu Web: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~mm158/ Mehdi Maleki-Pirbazari received his PhD degree from the University of Akron in 2015 and the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently working as a Postdoc at wireless communications laboratory (WCL) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Akron. He regularly serves as reviewer for IEEE transactions/journals and major conferences. His research interests include digital communications, digital signal processing, multi-user communications, multiple-input multiple-output wireless systems, cooperative communications and cognitive radio networks. |
Ph.D. Students
 | Ardalan Alizadeh Research Interests: Cognitive relay networks, distributed beamforming in two-way relay networks, MIMO systems, smart grids and software defined radio (SDR) implementation by USRP. Office/Phone: ASEC 605, 5991 Email: aa148@zips.uakron.edu Web: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~aa148/ Ardalan Alizadeh received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2008 and his M.Sc. degree from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran in 2011. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Akron, Ohio. His current research interests include cognitive relay networks, distributed beamforming in two-way relay networks, Optimal Resource Allocation in Smart Grids and software defined radio (SDR) implementation by USRP. |
 | Ehsan Saeidpour Parizy Research Interests: Smart Grid, Use of Optimization Method in Smart Grid, Implementation of Intelligence System into Power Network allocation in cooperative networks Office/Phone: ASEC 605, 5991 Email: esp16@zips.uakron.edu Web: Ehsan Saeidpour Parizy is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Akron, Ohio. His main area of research includes smart grid, application of optimization in power networks, and Game theory. Prior to joining the University of Akron, he worked as lecturer at Islamic Azad University and as a consultant in the field of energy. He has received his M.Sc. degree from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran in 2008. His M.Sc. research work was on the use of genetic algorithms for implementing fuzzy controllers for parallel flexible alternating current transmission (FACTS) devices to improve their voltage profile. Ehsan has received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 2005. |
M.S. Students
 | Husam Eldin Elfadil Research Interests: TBD Office/Phone: ASEC 605, 5991 Email: hm54@zips.uakron.edu Web: Hussam Elfadil received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Khartoum, Sudan in 2014. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Akron, Ohio. |
 | Musaab Saeed Research Interests: TBD Office/Phone: ASEC 605, 5991 Email: mss140@zips.uakron.edu Web: Musaab Saeed received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Khartoum, Sudan in 2014. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Akron, Ohio. |
Alumni
| Mehdi Maleki-Pirbazari Research Interests: MIMO systems, multi-user communications, cooperative communications and cognitive radio networks Email: mm158@zips.uakron.edu Web: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~mm158/ Mehdi Maleki-Pirbazari received his PhD degree from the University of Akron in 2015 and the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include digital communications, digital signal processing, multi-user communications, multiple-input multiple-output wireless systems, cooperative communications and cognitive radio networks. |
 | Mohammed Elgaily Eltayeb Research Interests: Random access and MAC layer protocols, opportunistic scheduling, feedback reduction, performance analysis and modeling of communication networks and applications of compressive sensing in multi-user communications networks Email: me33@zips.uakron.edu Web: Mohammed E. Eltayeb received his B.E. degree in Electronics Engineering from Sudan University of Science & Technology in 2004 and his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2009. In 2009, he was appointed as a Research Engineer at KFUPM where he was part of a team that established and administrated the Science and Technology Unit (a research funding body with an approved budget over US $ 26 M). He joined WCL in 2010 and subsequently completed his PhD in October 2014. His research interests lie in the general area of physical and MAC layer protocols of wireless networks with special interests in opportunistic scheduling, feedback reduction, random access protocols and performance analysis and modeling of communication networks, and applications of compressive sensing in multi-user communications networks. |
 | Shashwat Jnawali Research Interests: Modeling and compensation of RF impairments in MIMO-OFDM systems, coding for space-time communications and detection schemes for wireless communications Email: sj46@zips.uakron.edu Web: Shashwat Jnawali received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Nepal Engineering College, Nepal in 2007. He completed his Master's degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Akron, Ohio in August 2011. His Master's thesis is on the modeling and compensation of RF-Impairments in MIMO-OFDM systems. His other areas of research include DSP techniques in MIMO-OFDM systems, coding for space-time communications and detection schemes for wireless communications. |
 | Samuel Ghebremariam Research Interests: Smart grids, power network modeling, wireless communication, MIMO systems & signal processing in communication Email: stg12@zips.uakron.edu Web: Samuel Ghebremariam received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from University of Asmara, Eritrea in September 2007. He completed his master's degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in April 2012 where he was also a Teaching Assistant. His research interests are smart grids, power network modeling, applications of signal processing in power systems, and wireless communications. |
 | Sajjad Beygi-Harchegani Research Interests: Wireless communication systems, relay systems and networks, sparse signal processing and sparse representation of signals, compressed sensing, and information theory Email: sb126@zips.uakron.edu Web: |
 | Seyedmehdi Sadeghzadeh Research Interests: Wireless cooperative communication system, multi-user OFDMA, and network MIMO Email: ss231@zips.uakron.edu Web: Seyedmehdi Sadeghzadeh received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2010. He completed his master's degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Akron, in March 2013. His research interest is network MIMO and cooperative downlink/uplink and its application in multi-cell networks. |
 | Krishna Ram Budhathoki Research Interests: MIMO systems and cooperative networks Email: kb80@zips.uakron.edu Web: Krishna Ram Budhathoki received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Nepal Engineering College, Pokhara University, Nepal in 2007. He completed his master's degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in January 2013. His research interests lie in the general area of MIMO systems and cooperative networks. |
 | Ahmad Danaee Research Interests: Cooperative communication, applications of signal processing in communication, and source localization techniques Email: ad70@zips.uakron.edu Web: Ahmad Danaee received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2010. He completes his master's degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Akron, in summer 2013. His research interests include cooperative communication, applications of Signal processing in communication, and Source localization techniques. His work was on the design of low-complexity linear transmission schemes for relay based cooperative MIMO communication. |