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Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Electrical Engineering

Web Site

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
245B

Additional Location(s) Engineering 2, Room 245B

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop SOE2

Biography, Education and Training

• Hamid Sadjadpour received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on communication theory from University of Southern California (USC) in 1996. During his Ph.D., he worked part-time at Lincom corporations between February 1994 and July 1995 as a member of technical staff. During this period, he worked on the design of communication systems for satellite applications. Since December 1995, he was with AT&T Shannon research Lab as a senior technical staff member. He was promoted to Principal technical staff member in 2000. In the fall of 2001, he joined the department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz as an assistant professor where he is currently employed.

Summary of Expertise

Communication and Information Theory, Analysis of large scale Networks, Performance Analysis of Communication Networks, Information theoretic Security, Machine learning based communication system design.

Research Interests

• Wireless communications
• Analysis of networks and protocols
• Network coding
• Interaction between social and communication networks
• Information theoretic security
• Machine learning based communication system design

Awards, Honors and Grants

IEEE 2017 Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing best paper award.

IEEE European Wireless 2010 conference best student paper award,

IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Award for Best Unclassified Paper at the 2008 Milcom conference,

Best Paper Award at SPECTS 2007 conference,

Senior Member of IEEE.