Syed A. Jafar Chancellor's Professor of EECS Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California Irvine (UCI) 4223 Engineering Hall Irvine CA 92697-2625 Phone: (949) 824 1684 E-mail: syed [at] uci [.] edu

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Research Interests: Capacity of Wireless Networks, Private/Secure/Coded/Distributed Storage/Retrieval/Computation, Network Coding, Network Information Theory, Quantum Information Theory.

Office Hours: Wed 1-2pm via zoom (meeting id same as phone number), email to set up appointment

Miscellaneous Honors

• IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer 2019-2021.

• New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik National Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering 2015.

• UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research 2015.

• School of Engineering Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award for 2015.

• IEEE Fellow 2014.

• IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer 2013-2014.

• University of Canterbury Erskine Fellow 2010.

• Engineering School Maseeh Outstanding Research Award 2010.

• ONR Young Investigator Award 2008.

• NSF CAREER award 2006.

Best Paper Awards

• IEEE Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Best Paper Award 2018 (J72).

• IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award 2015.

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Paper Award 2015 (C. Wang and T. Gou for J39)

• IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award 2013.

• IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award 2009.

• IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award 2016 (Hua Sun for C123).

• IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award 2016.

• IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award 2014.

• IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award 2012.

• UCI EECS best student paper award 2009 (Viveck Cadambe, J20)

• UCI EECS best student paper award 2007 (Krishna Gomadam, J11)

• CPCC Best Dissertation Award (Tiangao Gou, 2012)

• CPCC Best Dissertation Award (Viveck Cadambe, 2011)

Citation Honors

• Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher 2018.

• Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher 2017.

• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2016.

• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2015

• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2014

• Sciencewatch Magazine World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

Teaching Honors

• School of Engineering Senior Career Award for Innovation in Teaching 2018.

• EECS Professor of the Year 2017.

• EECS Professor of the Year 2014.

• Engineering School Teaching Excellence Award 2012.

• EECS Professor of the Year 2012.

• EECS Professor of the Year 2011.

• EECS Professor of the Year 2009.

• Engineering School Faculty of the Year 2006.