Salman Avestimehr

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cornell University

Contact:

325 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone/Fax: 607-255-9915/9072

Email: avestimehr (at) ece.cornell.edu

About me:

I am an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, where I have co-founded the Foundations of Information Engineering (FoIE).

I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2005 and 2008. I was a postdoctoral scholar in the Center for the Mathematics of Information at Caltech during the 2008-2009 academic year,.

I have served as a Guest Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Special Issue on Interference Networks and Co-Organizer of the 2012 North America Information Theory Summer School and the 2012 Workshop on Interference Networks.

Curriculum Vitae    Short Bio

Awards:

    Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

    Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award

    Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

    National Science Foundation CAREER award

    David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize

    Vodafone U.S. Foundation Fellows Research Merit Award

My research:

My research areas of interest include information theory, the theory of communications and its applications. I am also interested in networking and communication protocol design.

In particular, my research focuses on approximation approaches to wireless network information theory, multi-hop multi-flow wireless networks, and interplay between network knowledge and network capacity.

For more information see my publications and research.

Research group:

  PhD Students

  1. • Ilan Shomorony (PhD student, started Fall 2009)

  2. • Alireza Vahid (PhD student, started Fall 2009)

  3. • Sina Lashgari (PhD student, started Fall 2010

  4. • Navid Naderializadeh (PhD student, started Fall 2011)

  5. • Amandianeze Nwana (Amandy) (PhD student, started Fall 2011)

  6. • Ibrahim Issa (PhD student, started Fall 2012)

  Postdoctoral Fellows

  1. • Dr. Silas Fong

  2. • Dr. David Kao

For more information see my group page.

What’s new?

  1. • Ilan and Alireza have received the 2013 Qualcomm Innovation Award for their work on “collaborative interference management”. Congratulations!

  2. • New papers to be presented at ISIT 2013:

  3. ‣ Two-Hop Interference Channels: Impact of Linear Time-Varying Schemes, preprint.

  4. ‣ Impact of Topology on Interference Networks with No CSIT, longer version on Arxiv.

  5. ‣ Network Compression: Worst-Case Analysis, longer version on Arxiv.

  6. ‣ On Degrees of Freedom Scaling in Layered Interference Networks with Delayed CSI, longer version on Arxiv.

  7. ‣ On Efficient Min-Cut Approximations in Half-Duplex Relay Networks, preprint of longer version.

  8. • New papers:

  9. ‣ Network Compression: Worst-Case Analysis, Arxiv preprint.

  10. ‣ Layered Interference Networks with Delayed CSI: DoF Scaling with Distributed Transmitters, Arxiv preprint.

  11. • New papers:

  12. ‣ Interference Networks with No CSIT: Impact of Topology, Arxiv preprint.

  13. ‣ Capacity Results for Binary Fading Interference Channels with Delayed CSIT, Arxiv preprint.

  14. • Office of Naval Research (ONR) funds our research on “Dynamics of Wireless Network Information Flow”.

  15. • Invited paper at the 2012 Allerton Conference:

  16. ‣ Degrees of Freedom of Two-Hop Wireless Networks: “Everyone Gets the Entire Cake”, Allerton 2012. Slides.

  17. • New paper:

  18. ‣ Worst-Case Additive Noise in Wireless Networks,  accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on information Theory, Arxiv preprint. Slides.

  19. • Received the 2012 Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest award for teaching in the College of Engineering of Cornell.

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