Bobak Anthony Nazer

Affiliation:

Home Page:

http://iss.bu.edu/bobak

Biography:

Bobak Nazer received the B.S.E.E. degree from Rice University, Houston, TX, in 2003 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 2005 and 2009, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA. From 2009 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. His research interests are in information theory, communications, and signal processing, with a focus on developing new techniques for distributed, reliable computation over networks. For his dissertation research, he received the Eli Jury Award from the EECS Department at UC - Berkeley. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Research Interests:

• Coding Theory
• Communication Networks
• Communications
• Shannon Theory

Participation & Positions:

Outreach Committee (01/01/12 until 12/31/14)
Student Committee (Student Co-chair II, 07/01/09 until 12/31/10)