Signal Processing Electrical Engineering

Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Phone: 650-***-****

E-mail: ********@********.***

Education:

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford. (Fall 2009-Due 2014); (GPA=4.21/4).

M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. (Fall 2009-Winter 2011); (GPA = 4.185/4).

B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Communications, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran ( Fall 2005 Spring 2009);

(GPA = 19.32/20).

Distinctions:

Stanford BENCHMARK Graduate Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2009 -2012).

Department and Institute rank 1, Sharif University of Technology (2009).

Publications:

M. Soltanolkotabi and E. J. Candes, A geometric analysis of subspace clustering with outliers .

Some older Publications from a past life (during my undergrad):

P. Pad, M. Soltanolkotabi, S. Hadikhanlou, A. Enayati and F. Marvasti, "Errorless Codes for Over -loaded Wireless CDMA with

Active User Detection," accepted in the Communications Theory (CT) Symposium of the International Conference on

Communications, ICC 2009, Dresden, Germany.

F. Marvasti, A. Amini, F. Haddadi, M. Soltanolkotabi, Babak Khalaj, Akram Aldroubi, Saeid Sanei and Jonathon

Chmbers, A Unified Approach to Sparse Signal Processing, accepted to EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal

Processing.

M. Soltanolkotabi, A. Amini and F. Marvasti, "OFDM Channel Estimation based on Adaptive Thresholding for Sparse Signal

Detection," Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (Eusipco2009).

M. Soltanolkotabi and F. Ashtiani, "Throughput Capacity of a Multi-channel Multi-hop Mobile Ad-hoc Network," Proc.

International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2009).

M. Soltanolkotabi, M. Soltanalian, A. Amini and F. Marvasti, "A Practical Sparse Channel Estimation for Current OFDM

Standards," Proc. International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2009).

S. Feizi-Khankandi, S. Zahed Pour, M. Soltanolkotabi, A. Amini and F. Marvasti, "Salt and Pepper Noise Removal for Images,"

Proc. IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications, ICT 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Selected Graduate Courses:

Taken:

Machine Learning, Applied Machine Learning, Convex Optimization I, Advanced Topics in Convex Optimization, Inference in

Graphical Modeling, Inference, Estimation, and Information Processing, Theory of Probability (A&B), Information Networks,

Stochastic Processes, Information Theory, Modern Coding Theory.

Audited:

Modern Markov chains, Expander Graphs, Theory of Statistics A&C, Geometric Algorithms, Algorithms (CS 161 & CS 261),

Algorithmic Game Theory, Convex Optimization II, Analysis on Manifolds, Algebraic Geometry, Modern Applied Statistics:

Learning.

Teaching Experience:

Instructor for the following course:

o Stanford:

EE 364a: Convex Optimization I (Summer 2011).

TA of the following courses:

o Stanford:

EE 278: Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing (Summer 2010)

o Sharif:

"Digital Communications II" and "Digital Signal Processing (DSP)"; Fall 2008.

"Electronics I" and "Electric Machinery II"; Spring 2008.

Selected Computer Skills:

C/C++, Python, R, MATLAB, Simulink, PSpice, Quartus II, LaTex.

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