I received my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1999. I completed my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park, under the supervision of Professor Anthony Ephremides, in 2002 and 2007 respectively. In September 2007, I joined the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra as a visiting professor. My research is in the general areas of communication networks, and information theory, with an emphasis on medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks, as well as cross-layer optimization for applications with hard delay constraints.

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Journals

• B. Bellalta, A. Faridi, D. Staehle, J. Barcelo, A. Vinel, Alexey and M. Oliver, ``Queueing Analysis in Multi-user Multi-packet Transmission Systems,'' submitted

• B. Bellalta, A. Faridi, J. Barcelo, V. Daza and M. Oliver, ``Modeling a CSMA/CA MAC Protocol with Multi-Packet Transmission/Reception in Nonsaturated Conditions,'' submitted

• J. Barcelo, B. Bellalta, C. Cano, A. Faridi, M. Oliver, ``On the Distributed Construction of a Collision-Free Schedule in Packet Radio Networks,'' submitted

• A. Faridi, M.R. Palattella, A. Lozano, Mischa Dohler, G. Boggia, A. Grieco and P. Camarda, ``Comprehensive Evaluation of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Layer Performance with Retransmissions,'' IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol.59, no.8, pp.3917-3932, Oct. 2010.

• A. Faridi and A. Ephremides, ``Distortion Control for Delay-Sensitive Sources,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.54, no.8, pp.3399-3411, Aug. 2008.
  

Book Chapters

• M.R. Palattella, A. Faridi, G. Boggia, P. Camarda, L.A. Grieco, Mischa Dohler, A. Lozano, ``Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC,'' in C. Wang, T. Jiang, Q. Zhang (Edts), ZigBee Network Protocols and Applications, Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, to appear.

• A. Faridi, K. Sayrafian-Pour, M. Alasti and A. Ephremides, ``Source Coding and Parallel Routing,'' Advances in Network Information Theory, DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Piush Gupta, Gerhard Kramer, Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden (eds.), Vol. 66, pp. 3-24, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2004

Conferences

• A. Faridi and A. Ephremides, ``Distortion Control for Packet-Erasure Channels,'' Proceedings of IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP '07), pp. 710-714, Madison, WI, August 2007.

• A. Faridi and A. Ephremides, ``Distortion Control for Queues with Deadlines,'' Proceedings of Data Compression Conference (DCC '06), pp. 312-321, Snowbird, UT, March 2006.

• A. Faridi and A. Ephremides, `` Source Coding and Parallel Routing: Exploring the Asymmetries,'' Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS '05), Baltimore, MD, March 2005.

Ph.D. Dissertation

• A. Faridi ,`` Cross-Layer Distortion Control for Delay Sensitive Sources,'' University of Maryland, College Park, MD, August 2007

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Signals and Systems, 2010 - present

A course on digital signal processing for second year undergraduate students.

Since Fall 2010, I have been teaching this course together with Xavier Serra and Vicent Caselles. As our main reference, we are using Signal Processing First by J. H. McClellan, R. W. Schafer, and M. A. Yoder.

Deployment of Telecommunications Infrastructures, 2008 - present

A Project Based Learning module for fourth year undergraduate students to put in practice the material learned in different courses in communication theory. It consists of building a system simulator loosely based on the IEEE 802.16 WiMAX wireless standard.

I am in charge of teaching an introduction to Octave/Matlab, as well as reviewing the Signal Processing background required for the project.

Data Transmission II, 2008 - 2010

An introductory course in cryptography and network security for second year undergraduate students.

I taught this course for three years starting in the second trimester of the 2007-2008 academic year. The course will no longer exist in the new Bologna program. The main reference I used was Cryptography and Network Security by William Stallings. The last version of my syllabus for the course is available here (pdf).

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UPF-DTIC Weekly Research Seminars Coordinator, 2008 - present

Since the fall trimester of 2008, I have been the coordinator for the weekly research seminars in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at UPF. These seminars are open to public, but also constitute a course for Master's and PhD students of the department. The talks are given either by the faculty or the graduate students whithin the department, or by speakers from outside the university who are invited by different research groups of the department.

If you would like to schedule talks or to arrange accomodations for an invited speaker, please send me an email.

Member of Technical Program/Organizing Committees

• 2011 IEEE Winter School of Information Theory (Organizing Committee)

• PIMRC 2011: 22nd IEEE Intl. Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications

• MACOM 2011: 4th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications

• SNOW 2011: 2nd Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless

• WONS 2010: The Seventh International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (TPC)

• VTC 2009: The 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (TPC)

• WONS 2009: The Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (TPC)

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Coral Sant Jordi: Since fall 2008, I have been singing in Coral Sant Jordi, under the direction of Lluís Vila i Casañas.

UMD Chorus: From 2003-2006, I was a member of The Maryland Chorus, under the direction of Edward Maclary.

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