Dr Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam

Biography

Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam received the B. Sc. degree with 1’st Class Honours from University of Tehran, Iran, in September 2008, the M. Sc. Degree with 1’st Class Honours from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in October 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Sydney, Australia, in January 2015, all in Electrical Engineering. He then held a research assistant position at the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, before coming to the University of Newcastle, where he is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His general research interests include channel coding techniques, cooperative communications, compressed sensing, machine-to-machine communications, and wireless sensor networks. Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam was a recipient of University of Sydney International Scholarship (USydIS), University of Sydney Postgraduate Award (UPA), and University of Sydney Norman I prize. He is currently serving as the Reviewer of several international prestigious journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and several international flagship conferences.

Research Interest

Coding and Information Theory, Networking and Communications, Wireless Communications