Sina Zahedi, Ph.D.

 

Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

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Office:

Information Systems Laboratory
350 Serra Mall, Rm 257
Stanford University, CA 94305-9510
(650) 725-9696

Email:

szahedi@stanford.edu

Education

  1. Ph.D. candidate. Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University
    Advisor: Abbas El Gamal, Co-Advisor: Balaji Prabhakar
  2. M.S., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2000
  3. B.S., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1998

Research Interests

  1. Information Theory
  2. Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
  3. Optical Communication

Publications

1. A. El Gamal, M. Mohseni, S. Zahedi "Bounds on capacity and minimum energy-per-bit for AWGN relay channels," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, September 2004.

2. A. El Gamal, S. Zahedi, "Capacity of Relay Channels with Orthogonal Components," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

3. S. Zahedi, R. Navid, A. Hassibi, "Statistical Modeling of Biochemical Detection Systems," Proceedings of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, September 2004, San Francisco, CA, pp. 208-211.

4. A. Hassibi, T. H. Lee, R. Navid, R. W. Dutton, S. Zahedi, "Effects of Scaling on the SNR and Speed of Biosensors," Proceedings of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, September 2004, San Francisco, CA, pp. 2549-2552.

5. S. Zahedi, M. Mohseni and A. El Gamal, "On the capacity of AWGN relay channels with linear relaying functions," proceedings of International Symposium on Information Theory, June 27 - July 2, 2004, Chicago, IL

6. A. El Gamal, S. Zahedi, "Minimum Energy Communication Over a Relay Channel," proceedings of International Symposium on Information Theory, June 29 - July 4, 2003, Yokohama, Japan, p. 344

7. A. El Gamal, C. Nair, B. Prabhakar, E. Uysal, S. Zahedi, "Energy-Efficient Scheduling of Packet Transmission over Wireless Networks," proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2002, New York, NY, pp. 1773-1782

8. S. Zahedi, J.A. Salehi, M. Nasiri-Kenari, "M-Ary Infrared CDMA for Indoors Wireless Communications," Proceedings of IEEE PIMRC 2001, Vol. 2, Pages 6-10, Sep-Oct. 2001, San Diego, CA

9. S. Zahedi, J.A. Salehi, M. Nasiri-Kenari, "Multiple-Access Techniques for Indoor Infrared Wireless Communications," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, Copy available upon request

10. S. Zahedi and J.A. Salehi, "Analytical Comparison of Various Structures for Fiber-Optic CDMA Networks," IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, Special Issue on Optical Networks, pp.1718-1727, Dec. 2000.

11.S. Zahedi and J.A. Salehi, "Performance Analysis for Various Fiber-Optic CDMA Receiver Structures," Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2000, Vol. 2, pp. 1210-1215, Dec. 2000, San Francisco, CA.

12. S. Zahedi, J.A. Salehi and M. Nasiri-Kenari, "A Photon Counting Approach to the Performance Analysis of Indoors Wireless Infrared CDMA Networks," Proceedings of IEEE PIMRC 2000, Vol. 2, pp. 928-932, Sep. 2000, London,UK

13. S. Zahedi, "Photon Counting Approach to the Performance Analysis of Wireless Optical TDMA and CDMA Networks," MS. Thesis, Sharif University of Technology, July 2000

14. S. Zahedi, "WDM: Links, Switches, Networks," IEEE Student Seminar on Switching Systems, Report No.7, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Jan 1999

15. S. Zahedi, "Hybrid CDMA and FDMA Optical Fiber Networks," Proceeding ISCEE-98, Nov. 1998, Vol. 3, pp. 36-43

Presentations

Stanford Network Research Center, Achievable Rate for AWGN Relay Channels, November 24, 2003, Stanford, CA