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Jawad A. Salehi

Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering Department

Sharif University of Technology

Email: jasalehisharif.edu

219 (118W), 1st Floor, Electrical Eng. Building

Tel: +98 (21) 6616 4346

 

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 1984. Thesis: “Spread Spectrum Multiple Access Systems Performance Analysis”
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 1980. 
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering , University of California at Irvine , Irvine, USA, 1979.

  

Affiliations

Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering group, Iran Academy of science, 2012 - Present.
Member of Iran Academy of Science, Tehran, Iran, 2009.
Chair of IEEE Iran Section, Sep. 2005 - 2007.
Director of Optical Networks Research Laboratory (ONRL), Electrical Engineering Department, SUT, 2003-Now.
Director of National Center of Excellence in Communications Science at the EE department of SUT, 2003-2006.
Associate Professor, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1997-2003.
Full Professor, EE Dept., Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2003-Now.
Head of Mobile Communications Systems Group and Codirector of Advanced and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Lab. at Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC), Tehran, Iran, 1999-2001.
Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Feb. to May 1990.
Member of Technical Staff of the Applied Research Area, Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), Morristown, NJ, 1984-1993.

 

Honors, Awards and Recognitions

Introduced as among the 250 preeminent and most influential researchers worldwide, ISI HighlyCited, by ISI Web of Knowledge in computer science category.
Selected as the pioneer scientist (Pishkesvat) in Optics and photonics by Optics and Photonics Society of Iran, 2015.
Allameh Tabatabai Award from Iran National Elites Foundation, 2012.
Chair IEEE Iran Section, 2005-2007.
IEEE Spectrum, January 1988, pp. 70, cites our work on ultrashort light pulse code division multiple access as one of a key development in field of electrical engineering.
Optics News, December 1987, pp. 28-29, cites our work on ultrashort light pulse code division multiple access as one of principal advances in the field of optics.
Keynote Speaker (Invited), 15th Iranian Conference on Optics and Photonics, Isfahan, Iran, January , 2009.
Keynote Speaker (Invited),  4th International Workshop  on OPS & OCDMA (IWOO2009), Tokyo, Japan, November, 2009.
Keynote Speaker (Invited), IEEE International Conference on Telecommunication, St. Petersburg, Russia , June, 2008.
Keynote Speaker (Invited), IEEE International Conference on Telecommunication, Penang, Malaysia, May, 2007.
Keynote Speaker (Invited), Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering,2005( PDF Abstract ).
Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) Award of Excellence, 1988.
Outstanding Research Award of EE department of SUT 2002.
Outstanding Research Award of EE department of SUT 2003.
Outstanding Research Award of EE department of SUT 2006.
Outstanding Research Award of Sharif University of Technology 2003 (Ranked 1st).
Nationwide Outstanding Research Award from Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Iran, 2003.
Nation’s Highly Cited Research Award from Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Iran, 2004.
First Rank, Khwarizmi International Prize in Fundamental Research, Iran, 2007.
Outstanding Inventor Award from World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Switzerland, 2007.
Member of Iran Academy of Science, Tehran, Iran, 2009.
Fellow of Islamic World Academy of Science, Amman, Jordan, 2009.
Elected by the Iranian Academy of Science as a member of Hall of Fame (Chehre Mandegar) in Electrical Engineering, October 2010.
Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [ for contributions to fundamental principles in optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) ], 2011.
Fellow of OPTICA [ for contributions to the invention and fundamental principles of optical code-division multiple-access communication systems and of optical orthogonal codes ], 2024.