Behrouz Maham

Behrouz Maham (S’07, M’10. SM’15) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, in 2010. From September 2008 to August 2009, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Engineering, Nazarbayev University (NU). He was an Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, from Sep. 2011 to Sep. 2015. Dr. Maham is TWAS-affiliated, a Senior Member of IEEE, and has more than 130 publications in major technical journals and conferences. He is an editorial member of IEEE Transactions on Communications, Elsevier’s Physical Communication, and John Wiley & Sons Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. His fields of interest include wireless communication and networking and Nano-neural communication systems.

• Affiliated Faculty at  the Network Science, Wireless, and Security (NetSciWiS) group within VirginiaTech, USA http://www.netsciwis.com/team
• Visiting researcher at the Simula Research Lab, 10 days visit, Oslo, Norway, May 2013.
• Visit to the Technische Universität Wien (TUWIEN), Vienna, Austria, June 2013.
• Visiting researcher at the Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto University (TKK, formerly Helsinki University of Technology), Helsinki, Finland, three months stay from October to December, 2010.
• Visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2010.
• Visiting researcher at the Star Laboratory at Stanford University, Stanford, USA; one year stay from September 2008 to August 2009.
• Visiting researcher in the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPELEC, Paris, France; April 2008 and November 2009.
• Visiting researcher in the Center for Wireless Communications at University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; December 2007.

Affiliated Projects

• The project entitled “Modeling and Analysis of Neuro-Synaptic Communications” funded by NU as a Social Policy Grant, July 2016 – July 2017. 
• The project numbered 93039712 entitled “Presenting Comprehensive Models for Neuro- Spike Communication Channel and Analyzing their Data Transmission Capacity,” funded by Iran National Science Foundation (INSF), Jan. 2016 – Jan. 2017.
• The project numbered CS1393-4-29 entitled “Analysis and Design of Cognitive Device-to-Device Networks”, funded by Institute for Research in Fundamental Scinece (IPM), Jul. 2014 – Sep. 2015.
• The project numbered 91000529 entitled “Design and Performance Analysis of Smart Wireless Networks for Machine-to-Machine Communications”, funded by Iran National Science Foundation (INSF), Nov. 2012 – Nov. 2013.
• The project entitled “DIRTY-RF: Advanced Techniques for RF Impairment Mitigation in Future Wireless Radio Systems” is a TEKES project with Ericsson, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Elektrobit and Airspan Networks. TEKES – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, 2010.
• The project entitled “Theoretical Foundations of Mobile Flexible Networks – THEFONE”, a FRITEK project funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2010-2011.
• The project 176773/S10 entitled “Optimized Heterogeneous Multiuser MIMO Networks – OptiMO”; a VERDIKT project funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2007-2011.
• Communications under Uncertain Topologies; an AURORA joint research program funded by the Research Council of Norway and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2008-2009.
• The project 183311/S10 entitled “Mobile-to-Mobile Communication Systems (M2M)”; VERDIKT project funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2007-2011.
• Using Smart Antenna Technology in WLANs Based on IEEE 802.11; Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Iran, 2006.
• Complete Design and Analysis of NAVSTAR GPS satellite receivers; in KavoshCom R&D Group, Iran, 2007 

Editor of WoS (ISI) Technical Journals

• Editor, Editorial member of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, from July 2018.  https://www.comsoc.org/tc/editors
• Area Editor, Editorial member of the Elsevier’s Physical Communication (PHYCOM) journal, from April 2017. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/physical-communication/editorial-board
• Executive Editorial member of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies – European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISSN: 1124-318X, ISI Web of Science Journal, from April 18, 2011. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291541-8251/homepage/EditorialBoard.html

Organization of Conference, Workshops and Talks

• Track-chair of ICEE2015-Communications (23rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering), Sharif Unversity, Tehran
• Workshops and panels chair, the 3^rd Conference on Smart Grids, Tehran, May 2013.
• Organized several talks at the University of Tehran, e.g., Prof. Robert Shober (Erlangen University and UBC), Dr. Yahya Golestani (The Aerospace Corporation, NASA/JPL Advanced Program Office, Pasadena, CA), Dr. Ali Zaidi (Ericsson Research, Stockholm).

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

• IEEE VTC2018-Spring, Porto, Portugal
• IEEE ICC 2018 Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, LA, USA
• IEEE ICC 2018 Wireless Communications Symposium, LA, USA.
• 2018 Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT)
• GC’17 Workshops (2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Workshops)
• Globecom’17-CT (IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication Theory), Singapore, Dec. 2017.
• Globecom’17-SPC (IEEE Global Communications Conference: Signal Processing for Communications), Singapore, Dec. 2017.
• Globecom’17-MWN (IEEE Global Communications Conference: Mobile and Wireless Networks), Singapore, Dec. 2017.
• IEEE PIMRC 2017 Fundamentals & PHY, Toronto, Canada
• IEEE COMNETSAT 2017, Semarang, Indonesia, October 2017.
• IEEE-GCC Conference and Exhibition 2017
• IEEE BlackSeaCom 2017, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2017
• IEEE WCNC 2017 – PHY and Fundamentals Track, Washington DC, USA, April 2017.
• IEEE VTC-Spring 2017, Sydney, Australia, June 2017.
• 2017 Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT)
• IEEE ICC – Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, Paris, France, May 2017.
• GlobalSIP 2016 – IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing
• Globecom’16 – (2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication Theory)
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security, Washington DC, USA.
• The 5th IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (IEEE COMNETSAT 2016)
• APCC 2016 (22nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications)
• IEEE VTC2016-Fall, Montreal, Canada, Sep. 2016
• ACM MobiApps, 27-29 August 2014, Barcelona, Spain
• IEEE PIMRC2016 Fundamentals & PHY, Valencia, Spain, September 4-7
• IEEE ICC 2016 – Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, Kuala-Lampur, Malaysia, May 2016
• IEEE ICC 2016 – Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, Kuala-Lampur, Malaysia, May 2016
• IEEE ICC 2016 Workshop on Wireless Physical Layer Security
• IEEE WCNC 2016 – PHY and Fundamentals Track, Doha, Qatar, April 2016
• 2016 Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT)
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Workshop on Advances in Software Defined Radio Access Networks and Context-aware Cognitive Networks, San Diego, CA, USA 
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security, San Diego, CA, USA
• The 24^th IEEE PIMRC’15, Fundamentals and PHY Track, Hong Kong, Sep. 2015
• GlobalSIP 2015 – IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing
• WoTBD 2015 (International Symposium on Web of Things and Big Data), Canada
• Symposium on Emerging Topics in Computing and Communications (SETCAC’15)
• The Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile 2014 (APWiMob 2015)
• Int. Conference on Computer, Communication, and Control Technology 2015
• IEEE ICC Workshop on Small Cell Networks (SmallNets), London, UK, June, 2015
• IEEE  ICC Workshop  on Wireless Physical Layer Security, London, UK, June, 2015
• ICEE2015-Communications (23rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering)
• 2015 Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT)
• IEEE SPICES 2015, Kerala, India, February 2015
• ICACCI2015, Kochi, India
• The 10th IEEE PAEWN, Gwangju, Korea, March 24-27, 2015
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’2015), New Orleans, LA, USA, April 2015.
• International Workshop on Communications and Information Theory, IWCIT, Tehran, Iran, May 2015.
• IEEE ICC 2015 – Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, London, UK, Sep. 2015.
• IEEE ICC 2015 – Wireless Communications Symposium, London, UK, Sep. 2015.
• IEEE ICC Workshop on Small Cell Networks (SmallNets), London, UK, June, 2015.
• IEEE ICC Workshop  on Wireless Physical Layer Security, London, UK, June, 2015
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, 2nd Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security, in Austin, TX, USA, December 8-12, 2014.
• The 23^rd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’14): Fundamentals and PHY Track, Washington DC, US, Sep. 2014.
• The IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCV), Nov.  2014, Vienna, Austria
• The 4th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2 2014), a joint event with the IoV 2014, in Beijing, China, during1-2, September, 2014.
• ATC’14 (The International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications)
• MobiApps 2014 (2014 International Workshop on Mobile Applications, Barcelona, Spain)
• The 2014 International Workshop on the Design and Performance of Networks on Chip (DPNoS)
• ICC’14 WS – SmallNets, Sydney, Australia, June, 2014.
• The Fifth International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE 2014)
• The 2014 International Conference on Internet of Vehicles (IOV 2014)
• ICEPIT 2014 (The 2014 International Conference on Electronic Publishing and Information Technology).
• NTMS’2014-Mobility & Wireless Networks Track
• International Symposium on Knowledge-intensive Software Engineering (KiSE’14), Delhi, India, Sep. 2014.
• Majlesi Journal of Telecommunication Devices
• The Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile 2014 (APWiMob 2014)
• IEEE  ICC  2014  Workshop  on Wireless Physical Layer Security, Sydney, Australia, June, 2014.
• Associate editor in Int Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS)
• The International Conference on Computing,Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel 2014)
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’2014), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2014.
• ICC’14 SPC (IEEE ICC 2014 – Signal Processing for Communications Symposium), Sydney, Australia, 10-14 June, 2014.
• The International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo, ICCVE 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Dec. 2013.
• The 2012 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics & Applications (ISIEA 2012), Taipei, Taiwan, May 28-31, 2013.
• The International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications 2013 (ATC’13), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Oct. 2013.
• The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’13): Fundamentals and PHY Track, London, UK, Sep. 2013.
• The 9th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’13), Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 2013.
• International Symposium on Knowledge-intensive Software Engineering (KiSE’13), Mysore, India, Aug. 2013.
• ICC’13 – IEEE ICC’13 – Workshop SmallNets, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.
• ICCVE 2012 (2012 International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo), Beijng, China, Dec. 2012.
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2013 Spring), Mobile Networks, Applications and Services Track, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’2013), Shanghai, China, April 2013.
• ComManTel-2013, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, January 2013.
• The 12th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2012), Bucharest, Romania, August 2012.
• The 2012 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics & Applications (ISIEA 2012), Bandung, Indonesia, September 2012.
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Fall), Wireless applications and services track, Quebec City, Canada, September 2012.
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Spring), Transmission Technologies Track, Yokohama, Japan, May 2012.
• Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE’11), Tehran, Iran, May 2011.
• NTMS’2012-Mobility & Wireless Networks Track (NTMS – Mobility and Wireless Networks Track), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012.
• IEEE 74th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2011-Fall), Wireless Services and Applications track, 20-23 September 2009, San Francisco, USA
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC11), PlanNet Workshop (Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks), Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011.
• IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
• International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users, MOBILITY 2011, Barcelona, Spain, October 2011.
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011), the Wireless Communications track, Maui, Hawaii, August 2011.
• IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010), MIMO Systems Symposium, Caen, Normandie, France, June 28-July 2, 2010.
• IEEE WCNC (Wireless Communications & Networking Conference), PlanNet 2010, Sydney, Australia, 18-21 April, 2010.
• IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2009-Fall), Wireless Services and Applications track, 20–23 September 2009, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
• IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009), MIMO Systems Symposium (IWCMC 2009 MIMO Systems Symposium)
• International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks (PlanNet2009), Leipzig, Germany, June 2009.
• Technical Committee member for choosing best theses awards in School of ECE, University of Tehran, Oct. 2011.

Session Chair

• IEEE BlackSeaCom 2017, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2017.
• IEEE WCNC 2014, Session: MAC, Relaying in Wireless Networks, Istanbul, Turkey, April, 2014
• International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2010), session at Selected Areas in Communications symposium, SA-C5: Collaboration in Cognitive Networks
• Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE’12), Tehran, Iran, May 2012
• The 5th National Conference on Iran’s Scientific Society of Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I), Nov. 2011, Session: Wireless Sensor Networks

Invited Speaker 

• Introductory Talk- Millimeter-Wave Communications for IoT Applications, IEEE Eurasian Outreach Workshop on IoT Applications, Astsna, Kazakhstan, September 5-7, 2017
• IEEE Opening Ceremony, Shahid Rajaee Unversity, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 14
• The seventh International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST 2014), Tutorial/Workshop, entitled “Layered Interference Mitigation for Wireless Networks,”  with Prof. Behnam Aazhang.
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, May 24, 2013.
• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, April 7, 2011.
• Luxembourg University, Luxembourg, April 1, 2011. http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/news_events/opportunistic_interference_cancellation_in_cognitive_multiple_access_network
• Aalto University (TKK, formerly Helsinki University of Technology), Finland, Dec. 9, 2010.
• University of Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2, 2010.
  http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/tons/2010-1/BMaham.html
• Stanford University, USA, Feb. 12, 2009.
• International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM 2008), Hangzhou, China, Aug. 25-27, 2008.

Memberships/  Board of directors

• TWAS Young Affiliateship-2017 from the Central and South Asian Region for a period of 5 years (UN organization)
• IEEE Senior Member
• Member of IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing for Communications and Electronics Technical Committee (SPCE TC) http://spce.committees.comsoc.org/
• Member of Program Committee, Engineering Management MSc Program
• Board of directors, IEEE Iran section, Treasurer
• Board of directors, Communications chapter, IEEE Iran section
• Member of Conference Committee, IEEE Iran section
• IEEE Communications Society Member
• Iran’s National Elites Foundation
• Iranian Society of Smart Grid
• Member of IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technologies Initiative for Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (ETI-MBMC) (previously known as the Nanoscale, Molecular and Quantum Networking Emerging Technical Subcommittee

Reviewer for

• Editorial Advisory Board of the book “Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Frameworks for Virtual Antenna Array Applications,” IGI Global (http://www.igi-pub.com/reference/details.asp?ID=34568&v=editorialBoard); Book chapter in “Spectrum Efficiency in OFDMA,” Auerbach Publications, CRC Press; Book chapter in “Fourth-Generation (4G) Wireless Networks: Applications and Innovations,” IGI Global
• IEEE Transaction on Communications;IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications; IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology;IEEE Journal Selected Area in Communications; IEEE Communications Letters; IEEE Signal Processing Letters;IET Communications (formerly IEE Proceedings Communications); Electronics Letters (IET);Annals of telecommunications;EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing; European Transactions on Telecommunications; Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN); EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking;Springer Journal on Wireless Networks; JEMWA/PIER Journals (organized by MIT); John Wiley & Sons Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing;Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications; Wireless Personal Communications Journal; International Journal of Computers and Applications; Springer Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A; Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM08, GLOBECOM09, GLOBECOM10, GLOBECOM11, GLOBECOM12); IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC08, ICC09, ICC10, ICC11, ICC12); IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC08, VTC09, VTC10, VTC11, VTC12); IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’09, WCNC’10, WCNC’11); IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC09, IWCMC10); IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC08, PIMRC09, PIMRC10); IEEE ISWPC’10; International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM10); CHINACOM 2008; IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS07); Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE07, ICEE12)

Teaching Experience

• Random Processes, Fall 2017, Nazarbayev University
• Signals and Systems, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Nazarbayev University
• Internet of Things, Spring 2017, Nazarbayev University
• Information Systems Management, Fall 2016, Nazarbayev University
• Digital Signal and Image Processing, Fall 2016, Nazarbayev University
• Computer Networking, Spring 2016, Nazarbayev University
• Digital Logic Design, Spring 2016, Nazarbayev University
• IT for Communications (M2M, IoT, and Cloud), Fall 2015, Nazarbayev University
• Information Theory and Coding, Spring 2015, University of Tehran
• Data Communication Networks, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, University of Tehran
• Stochastic Processes, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, University of Tehran
• Engineering Probability and Statistics, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, University of Tehran
• Telecommunications 2 (Digital Communications), Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, University of Tehran
• Software-defined Radio Laboratory, Fall 2013, University of Tehran
• Teaching Assistantship (20% position): Digital Communications 1, UNIK 4170, University of Oslo, 2009

  Electronic teaching: Stochastic Processes, Fall 2014, Azad University

Thesis Opponent/Examiner

• External committee for more than 35 MSc and PhD theses in Sharif University of Tech., Tarbiat Modares University, Iran Univ. of Science and Tech., KNT Univ., Shahid Beheshti Univ., 2011-present.
• Thesis opponent for 34 MSc and PhD theses in University of Tehran ans Nazarbayev University

Other Scientific Merits

• 2017, Selected as a TWAS young affiliates 2017 from TWAS in 2017 (UN organization)

– TWAS: The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries

https://twas.org/

https://twas.org/network/young-affiliates

http://www.jncasr.ac.in/twasrocasa/

• 2013, University of Tehran Research Award
• 2012, Iran’s National Elites Foundation Faculty Award
• 2011, Nominated for the best paper award in IEEE Communications Society R-Letters;
• 2007, Ranked 1^st among MSc students of System Communications group, University of Tehran
• 2005, Among “Reserved Exceptional Students” to enter University of Tehran for MS degree without exam, 2005