Education

Carnegie Mellon University

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (ACO)

  Advisor: Bernhard Haeupler
  Dissertation: Coding for Synchronization Errors

• M.Sc. in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization

2015 - 2020

Sharif University of Technology

• B.Sc. in Computer Science

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering

  Advisor: Amin Gohari
  Dissertation: Critical Graphs in Index Coding

2010 - 2015

Professional Experience

Harvard University

• Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow

  Supervised by: Madhu Sudan

Jan 2021 - Sep 2021

Microsoft Research

• Research Intern, DNA Data Storage Group

  Supervised by: Sergey Yekhanin

Summer 2019

Carnegie Mellon University

• Graduate Research Assistant

  Supervised by: Mor Harchol-Balter

Fall 2015

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

• Intern, Theory Group

  Supervised by: Ola Svensson

Summer 2014

Honors and Awards

• Awardee of CRA/CCC's NSF-funded Computing Innovation Fellowship (CIFellowship) program, 2020.

• Invited to speak at Highlights Session of Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, 2020.

• Invited to publish an expository paper on synchronization strings in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory: Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Vladimir I. Levenshtein, 2019.

• Invited to speak at Harvard Workshop on Coding and Information Theory, 2018.

• Invited to publish my paper Synchronization Strings: Codes for Insertions and Deletions Approaching the Singleton Bound in the Theory of Computing journal, 2017.

• Ranked 1st among the 2015 class of computer science, Sharif University of Technology, 2015.

• Gold medalist of 18th Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI), 2009.

Invited Talks

• Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA, Feb 2020.

• Harvard University, Harvard Workshop on Coding and Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, Apr 2018.

• Carnegie Mellon University, Theory Lunch, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 2018.

• Johns Hopkins University, Theory Seminar, Baltimore, MD, Dec 2017.

• University of Maryland, CS Talks, College Park, MD, May 2017.

• Carnegie Mellon University, SQUALL Talks, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 2015.

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Theory Seminar, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep 2014.

• Sharif University of Technology, Information Theory Lab, Tehran, Iran, Apr 2014.

Academic Service

Conferences I have reviewed for:

• IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)

• ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)

• ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)

• International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP)

• Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS)

• European Symposia on Algorithms (ESA)

• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

• International Conference on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM)

Journals I have reviewed for:

• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

• IEEE Transactions on Communications (ITC)

• SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (SIDMA)

Teaching

I served as a teaching assistant for the following courses at CMU:

• Graduate Algorithms (15-750): Spring 2017

• Algorithms & Advanced Data Structures (15-350): Fall 2018

I served as a teaching assistant for the following courses at Sharif:

• Design and Analysis of Algorithms (22-981/40-384): Fall 2013, Spring 2014

• Introduction to Cryptography (22-813): Fall 2013

• Introduction to Probability and Statistics (25-732): Fall 2012

• Advanced Programming (25-777): Spring 2014

• Logic Circuits and Digital Systems (25-743): Fall 2012, Fall 2013