Hessam Mahdavifar
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- h.mahdavifar@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Research Focus
Coding and information theory, wireless communications, data privacy and security, privacy-preserving computing and learning
Education
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 2012
- MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 2009
- BS, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2007
Honors & Awards
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2020
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, 2020
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on RFID, 2015
- Silver Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad, 2002 and 2003
Research Overview
Coding and information theory, wireless communications, data privacy and security, privacy-preserving computing and learning
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
M. Soleymani, H. Mahdavifar, and A. S. Avestimehr, “Analog Secret Sharing with Applications to Private Distributed Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 17, pp. 1893-1904, May 2022.
M. Soleymani and H. Mahdavifar, “Analog Subspace Coding: A New Approach to Coding for Non-Coherent Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, pp. 2349-2364, Apr 2022.
N. Aldaghri and H. Mahdavifar, “Physical Layer Secret Key Generation in Static Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.15, pp. 2692-2705, Dec 2020.
H.Mahdavifar, “Polar Coding for Non-Stationary Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, pp. 6920-6938, Nov 2020.
M. V. Jamali and H. Mahdavifar, “Uplink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access over Mixed RF-FSO Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.19, pp. 3558-3774, May 2020.
Aug 18, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Hessam Mahdavifar
Hessam Mahdavifar joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2023 as an Associate Professor.