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Hamid Jafarkhani | |
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حمید جعفرخانی | |
| Born | 1966 (age 58–59) |
| Education | University of Tehran, University of Maryland College Park |
| Occupation(s) | electrical engineer, professor |
Hamid Jafarkhani (Persian:حمید جعفرخانی) (born 1966, inTehran) is an Iranian-born Americanelectrical engineer and professor. He serves as the Chancellor'sProfessor inelectrical engineering andcomputer science in theHenry Samueli School of Engineering at theUniversity of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). His research focuses oncommunications theory, particularlycoding andwireless communications andnetworks.
Prior to studying at theUniversity of Tehran, he was ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination ofIranianuniversities in 1984. After receiving hisB.S.degree in 1989, he studied at theUniversity of Maryland College Park and obtained hisM.S. degree in 1994 followed by hisPh.D. in 1997. After graduating, Jafarkhani joinedAT&T Laboratories-Research in August 1997 before moving toBroadcom in July 2000 and to theUniversity of California, Irvine in September 2001.
Within the wireless communications field, Jafarkhani is best known as the primary/main inventor of space-time codes (jointly with Siavash Alamouti and Nambirajan Seshadri)[1] and for his two seminal papers[2][3] which established the field ofspace–time block coding, published whilst working for AT&T. The first of these, "Space–time block codes from orthogonal designs", established the theoretical basis for space–time block codes, and the second, "Space–time block coding for wireless communications: performance results", provided numerical analysis of the performance of the first such codes.Space–time codes rely on the use of multipleantennas at the transmit side of a wireless link. Multiple copies of the same data are transmitted from these multiple antennas in such a way that the receiver has a much better chance of correctly detecting the signal in the presence of corruption and noise than if just one copy is sent. The performance of space–time coded systems, in terms of the reliability of the transmission is significantly better than non-coded systems. Space–time block codes in particular are known to be simple to implement and effective, and Jafarkhani's ideas in these two papers triggered the massive international research effort into them that continues today.
Later, in 2001, Jafarkhani introducedquasi-orthogonal space–time block codes[4] which overcome some of the difficulties inherent in earlier codes, at a cost of transmitting less data. These too are now widely studied. Then, in 2003 he introduced a more powerful version of his original codes, thesuper-orthogonal space–time trellis codes[5] which combine the effects of both block codes andspace–time trellis codes. Again, this work has led to significant research efforts around the world.
Jafarkhani received aNational Science Foundation CAREER award in January 2003[6] which "recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge".[7] He is also a Fellow of theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to space-time coding,[8] an editor ofIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and an associate editor ofIEEE Communications Letters. Jafarkhani is the author ofSpace-Time Coding: Theory and Practice,[9] published in September 2005.
Jafarkhani is a co-recipient of the 2013IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for outstanding contributions to communications technology. He is a recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication.[10]
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