Syed Ali Jafar

Affiliation:

Associate Professor 

 Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 

 

Henry Samueli School of Engineering 
3223, Engineering III   
Irvine, CA 92697-2625
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

 

 

(949) 824 1684 Office 

(949) 824 2321 Fax

Home Page:

http://newport.eecs.uci.edu/~syed/index.html

Biography:

Syed Ali Jafar received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India in 1997, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) , Pasadena USA in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA in 2003. His industry experience includes positions at Lucent Bell Labs , Qualcomm Inc. and Hughes Software Systems. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA USA. His research interests include multiuser information theory and wireless communications. 

Dr. Jafar received the NSF CAREER award in 2006 and the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2008. He received the UC Irvine Engineering Faculty of the Year award in 2006 and the UC Irvine EECS Professor of the Year Award in 2009, for excellence in teaching. Dr. Jafar received the 2009 IEEE Information Theory Society best paper award. He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and for IEEE Communications Letters.

Research Interests:

• Communication Networks
• Communications
• Shannon Theory

Awards Received:

• Information Theory Paper Award (2009) for Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom for the K User Interference Channel

• Information Theory Paper Award (2009) for Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom for the K User Interference Channel

Author of:

• V.R. Cadambe , S.A. Jafar , "Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom for the K User Interference Channel", IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Aug. 2008