Hossein Pishro-Nik Assistant Professor 205 Marcus Hall University of Massachusetts 100 Natural Resources Rd Amherst MA 01003-9292 Telephone: (413) 577-0834 email: pishro@ecs.umass.edu

B.S., Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, 2001
M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003, Ph.D., 2005

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Communication systems and networks, sensor networks, error control coding, information theory, signal processing for communications and data storage, algorithms and security.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• H. Pishro-Nik and F. Fekri, "On decoding of LDPC codes over the erasure channel," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory. Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 439-454, March 2004.
• H. Pishro-Nik, N. Rahnavard, J. Ha, F. Fekri, and A. Adibi, "Low-density parity-check codes for volume holographic memory systems," Journal of Applied Optics, Vol. 42 No.5 pp.861-870, February 2003.
• H. Pishro-Nik, N. Rahnavard, and F. Fekri, "Non-uniform error correction using low-density parity check codes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Volume 51, Issue 7, July 2005 Page(s):2702 - 2714 .
• H. Pishro-Nik, K. Chan, and F. Fekri "On connectivity properties of large-scale wireless sensor networks," First Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, October 2004.
• H. Pishro-Nik and F. Fekri, "Performance of low-density parity-check codes with linear minimum distance," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, to appear.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Information Theory Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society.

HONORS & AWARDS: ECE Graduate Excellence Award, Georgia Institute of technology, 2005, CSIP Outstanding Research Award Georgia Institute of technology, 2005.

 

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