Jawad Salehi
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Jawad A. Salehi born in Kazemain (Kadhimiya), Iraq, on December 22, 1956 is an Iran
ian electrical and computer engineer, pioneer of optical code division multiple access
(CDMA) and a highly cited researcher .
from the University of California, Irvine
, in 1979, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D.
degrees, all in electrical engineering
, from the University of Southern California
(USC), Los Angeles
, in 1980 and 1984, respectively.
at Communication Science Institute at USC, where he was engaged in research in the area of spread spectrum
systems. On 1984 he joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), Morristown, New Jersey
as a Member of Technical Staff of the Applied Research Area. Meanwhile, from February to May 1990, he was with the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Cambridge, as a Visiting Research Scientist conducting research on optical multiple-access networks. He left Bellcore (Now Telcordia) on 1993.
Later on 1997, Dr. Salehi joined Sharif University of Technology
http://sharif.edu, Tehran
, Iran
as a faculty member and was an Associate Professor and since 2003 he has become a Full Professor
with the department of Electrical Engineering
(EE), Sharif University of Technology
(SUT).
From 1999 to 2001, he was the Head of Mobile Communications Systems Group and Co-director of Advanced and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
(CDMA) Laboratory at Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC), Tehran
, conducting research in the area of advance CDMA techniques for optical and radio communications systems.
In 2003, he founded and directed the Optical Networks Research Laboratory (ONRL) , Electrical Engineering Department, SUT, for advanced theoretical and experimental research in futuristic fiber-optic communication
and all-[optical networking]. He is also a Cofounder of Advanced Communications Research Institute (ACRI) at SUT for advancing the graduate school research program in communications science.
s and
optical multiaccess networks, in particular, optical orthogonal codes (OOC); fiber-optic CDMA; femtosecond or ultra-short light pulse CDMA; spread time CDMA; holographic CDMA; wireless indoor optical CDMA; all-optical synchronization; and applications of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) in optical systems.
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Iran
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ian electrical and computer engineer, pioneer of optical code division multiple access
Code division multiple access
Code division multiple access is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. It should not be confused with the mobile phone standards called cdmaOne, CDMA2000 and WCDMA , which are often referred to as simply CDMA, and use CDMA as an underlying channel access...
(CDMA) and a highly cited researcher .
Education
Dr. Salehi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineeringElectrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
from the University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
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, in 1979, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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degrees, all in electrical engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
, from the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
(USC), Los Angeles
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, in 1980 and 1984, respectively.
Affiliations
From 1981 to 1984, he was a full-time Research AssistantResearch assistant
A research assistant is a researcher employed, often on a temporary contract, by a university or a research institute, for the purpose of assisting in academic research...
at Communication Science Institute at USC, where he was engaged in research in the area of spread spectrum
Spread spectrum
Spread-spectrum techniques are methods by which a signal generated in a particular bandwidth is deliberately spread in the frequency domain, resulting in a signal with a wider bandwidth...
systems. On 1984 he joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the...
as a Member of Technical Staff of the Applied Research Area. Meanwhile, from February to May 1990, he was with the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
(MIT), Cambridge, as a Visiting Research Scientist conducting research on optical multiple-access networks. He left Bellcore (Now Telcordia) on 1993.
Later on 1997, Dr. Salehi joined Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology is a university of higher education in technology, engineering and physical sciences in Tehran. Sharif University of Technology is one of the most prestigious universities in the country, and is considered Iran's MIT...
http://sharif.edu, Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
as a faculty member and was an Associate Professor and since 2003 he has become a Full Professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
with the department of Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
(EE), Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology is a university of higher education in technology, engineering and physical sciences in Tehran. Sharif University of Technology is one of the most prestigious universities in the country, and is considered Iran's MIT...
(SUT).
From 1999 to 2001, he was the Head of Mobile Communications Systems Group and Co-director of Advanced and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
Code division multiple access
Code division multiple access is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. It should not be confused with the mobile phone standards called cdmaOne, CDMA2000 and WCDMA , which are often referred to as simply CDMA, and use CDMA as an underlying channel access...
(CDMA) Laboratory at Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC), Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
, conducting research in the area of advance CDMA techniques for optical and radio communications systems.
In 2003, he founded and directed the Optical Networks Research Laboratory (ONRL) , Electrical Engineering Department, SUT, for advanced theoretical and experimental research in futuristic fiber-optic communication
Fiber-optic communication
Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber. The light forms an electromagnetic carrier wave that is modulated to carry information...
and all-[optical networking]. He is also a Cofounder of Advanced Communications Research Institute (ACRI) at SUT for advancing the graduate school research program in communications science.
Research
Professor Salehi's current research interests include fiber-optic communicationFiber-optic communication
Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber. The light forms an electromagnetic carrier wave that is modulated to carry information...
s and
optical multiaccess networks, in particular, optical orthogonal codes (OOC); fiber-optic CDMA; femtosecond or ultra-short light pulse CDMA; spread time CDMA; holographic CDMA; wireless indoor optical CDMA; all-optical synchronization; and applications of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) in optical systems.
Recognitions, honors and awards
- Dr. Salehi is the holder of 12 U.S. patents on optical CDMA.
- Introduced as among the most influential researchers , ISI highly cited researcherISI highly cited researcherISI Highly Cited is a database of "highly cited researchers"—scientific researchers whose publications are most often cited in academic journals over the past decade, published by the Institute for Scientific Information...
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category .
- The recipient of the first rank in fundamental research of Khwarizmi International Award and the recipient of World Intellectual Propriety Organization (WIPO) http://www.wipo.int award for outstanding inventor , 2007.
- Recipient of the Bellcore’s Award of Excellence
- The Outstanding Research Award of EE Department of Sharif University Technology in 2002, 2003, and 2006.
- the Nationwide Outstanding Research Award from the Ministry of Higher Education 2003, IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
and the Nation’s Highly Cited Researcher Award 2004.
- Corecipient of IEEE’s Best Paper Award (“spread-time/time-hopping ultrawideband (UWB) CDMA communications systems”) from the International Symposium on Communications and Information Technology, October 2004, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
.
- Since May 2001, he has been serving as Associate Editor for Optical communicationOptical communicationOptical communication is any form of telecommunication that uses light as the transmission medium.An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the...
category of the IEEE Transactions on CommunicationsIEEE Transactions on Communications-External links:* *...
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- On September 2005, he was elected as the interim Chair of the IEEE Iran section and he continued serving to 2007.
- Member of Technical Program Committee of Global Communications ConferenceGlobal Communications ConferenceThe Global Communications Conference is an annual international academic conference organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society. The first GLOBECOM was organised by the Communications Society's predecessor in 1957, with the full name of "National...
(Globecom), 2006.
- Member of the organizing committee for the first and the second IEEE Conference on Neural Information.
See also
- Science and technology in IranScience and technology in IranPersia was a cradle of science in earlier times. Persian scientists contributed to the current understanding of nature, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy. Persians made important contributions to algebra and chemistry, invented the wind-power machine, and the first distillation of alcohol...
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