Bobak Anthony Nazer

Affiliation:

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Madison, WI

Home Page:

www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bobak

Biography:

Bobak Nazer is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, hosted by Prof. Stark Draper and Prof. Rob Nowak. He completed his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at Rice University (B.S. 2003) and was a graduate student in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (M.S. 2005, Ph.D. 2009) under the supervision of Prof. Michael Gastpar. He was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and was selected as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Electrical Engineering in 2004. For his doctoral research, he was awarded the Eli Jury Award for Outstanding Achievement in Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing in 2009.

Research Interests:

• Coding Theory
• Communication Networks
• Communications
• Shannon Theory

Participation & Positions:

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