Gallery – Nosratinia Lab

2010

2023

Thanksgiving 2023 with Nosratinia Lab members and Alumni, friends and family.

ECE Research Day, Nov. 13, 2023— Maryam/Sameer and Maryam/Negar presenting results.

At the RINGS NSF PI meeting, hosted by Ericsson in Santa Clara, CA, 1-2 Nov. 2023. Aria with Per Karlsson, Dan Ward, Murat Torlak, Moe Win, Matthieu Bloch, Hussein Abouzeid, and Amir Gomroki.

Presenting RIS tutorial at PIMRC 2023, Toronto. Catching up with Amir Khandani and Matt Valenti

Mementos with friends from ISIT 2023, Taipei

2022

Mohammad Successfully defended his disseration on November 1.

Heping defended his dissertation on October 31.

Sameer, Negar and Javad attend the North American Summer School of Information Theory, Los Angeles

2021

Mr. Hassan ZivariFard defended his PhD dissertation in November 2021.

Mr. Fan Zhang defended his PhD in June 2021.

Noha Helal’s hooding ceremony, Summer 2021

2020

UTD has restricted access since March 2020 due to COVID-19, but we continue our scholarly work and weekly (online) group meetings.

Mohammad and Mehdi at ITA 2020. This would be our last information theory meeting for a long time, due to COVID-19.

2019

Thanksgiving dinner with lab members and their friends and family

Aria was a keynote speaker in ACOSIS 2019 in Marrakech

Dr. Ali Pezeshki, Colorado State, visited our group 7/22-8/16, 2019

ISIT 2019, Paris, with Erdan Arikan and Joachim Hagenauer

Hussein Saad’s dissertation defense, July 1, 2019, during and afterward with committee

March 16-22, whirlwind trip to Banglore, Chennai, Bombay, and Delhi. Interacting with great friends and scholars A. Chockalingam, Neelesh Mehta, and Sundar Rajan, as well as (not shown) Rajesh Sundaresan, Chandra Murthy, Srikrishna Bhashyam, Andrew Thangaraj, Nikhil Karamchandani, Sibiraj Pillai, and others. Surprised to run into Bruce Hajek in IIT Mumbai.

Mohammad, Heping, and Hassan at ITA 2019. Aria presenting our group’s findings.

2018

Thanksgiving party, November 2018. Lab members enjoying food and fun.

ISIT 2018, Vail, CO. Hussein and Noha preseting papers, Aria with Igal Sason.

Graduation day, May 2018

At ITA 2018, San Diego

2017

ISIT 2017, Aachen, Germany. Aria with Massimo Franceschetti, Randall Berry, David Tse, and Daniela Tuninetti

Ahmed Hindy’s defense. He did great work on lattice codes and their performance limits under fading.

Late night with lab members at ITA 2017, San Diego

2016

NSF Project meeting with Profs. A. Host-Madsen, W. Shiroma, A. Ohta, and their research group, on the campus of the University of Hawaii, Manoa

ISIT 2016, Barcelona, Spain

ITA 2016, San Diego, CA. MCL students Noha Helal, Huseein Saad, and Fan Zhang.

2015

ISIT 2015, Hong Kong. (Top left) Aria with Ertem Tuncel, Tolga Duman, Amir Banihashemi, and Li Chen. (Top right) with Anders Host-Madsen (Bottom left) with Ayfer Ozgur and Anelia Sumekh-Baruch.

(left) Ahmed Hindy presenting, and (right) students relaxing during a social event, at the Information Theory and Applications workshop, San Diego.

2014

With Tolga Duman at the banquet of ISIT 2014, Hawaii.

2013

November 2013: plenary speaker in the 2nd International Workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications, Shanghai, China. Together with Meixia Tao, Wen Chen, Norm Beaulieu, Takis Mathiopoulos, Fukuyumi Adachi, Pingzhi Fan and Pingyi Fan

Feb. 2013, Attia, Hindy, and Fadel at Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego

2012

December 2012: Graduation ceremony at UT-Dallas.

November 2012: Thuy’s defense

November 2012: (Right) Mohamed Abouelseoud before his defense, with the three new members of the lab. (Left) Mohamed after successfully completing his defense.

August 2012: (left) Aria serves as invited panelist in ICCC 2012, Beijing, (right) Aria with Prof. Xiao Ma at Sun Yat-sen University

July 2012: (left) Jogging in Boston during ISIT 2012, (right) up-close 4th of July fireworks visible from conference hotel.

February 2012: Investiture ceremony where Aria was conferred the Jonsson Distinguished Professorship

2011

December 2011: Globecom 2011 in Houston with Thuy, Yang, Aria, and Baile Xie

August 2011: Aria gives a plenary lecture at the Canadian Summer School for Communications and Information Theory, Banff, Alberta.

ISIT 2011: Natasha Devroye and Daniela Tuninetti (Univ. Illinois Chicago), two street performers in Saint Petersburg, Piysuh Gupta (Bell Labs), Sujay Sanghavi (UT-Austin), Hamid Jafarkhani (UC-Irvine), Shahram Yousefi (Queens U), Amin Shokrollahi (EPFL), Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Tech), Aria, and Behnaam Aazhang (Rice)

2010

July 2010: (Left) Keynote speaker at ICNDS 2010, Wenzhou, China. (Right) During a hike outside Wenzhou, after a failed jump across a gap and falling into a river.

June 2010: Thuy and Yang at the reception in ISIT 2010, Austin.

January 2010: It rarely snows in Dallas. This day was an exception, and everyone on the UT-Dallas campus was having fun.

2009

December 2009: (Left) Invited speaker at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Prof. Wei Zhang of UNSW presents Aria with a memento. (Right) With Prof. Yonghui Li, giving an invited talk at Sydney University.

August 2009: Sending Negar away to internship at Philips, Cleveland. She will miss the balmy Dallas evenings, like this one at Mi Cocina’s restaurant.