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Mohammad Karzand
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Information Theory Laboratory
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MISSION
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My general interests are theoretical communications and information theory. I am particularly interested in problems which are motivated by practical applications. In my master project, I considered the role of side information in multiple description problem which can be viewed as a fundamental limit of video coding over networks. I proved a converse for a special case when one of the side decoders reconstructs a function of the source ouput. My investigation shows that it is not possible to extend Ahlswede's converse in no excess rate region case to this problem. I also studied capacity of class of Gel'fand-Pinsker channels and degraded broadcast channel with upgraded relay in my semester project. I found an achievability result for each of them.
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BIOGRAPHY
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Mohammad Karzand was born in Tehran, Iran on November 4, 1982. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Tehran in June 2005, then he came to EPFL and started a master of science program in communication sciences departement. He is doing his master thesis and he is expected to graduate in Feb. 2007.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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Adaptive fault-tolerant data flooding for energy-aware sensor networks, Karzand, M.; Rezaie, M.G.; Mansouri, V.S.;, Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, 2005.
A novel soft handoff algorithm for fair network resources distribution, AliPanahi, B.; Karzand, M.;, Second IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2005. WOCN 2005.
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Presentations
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1 - Student seminar on "The Extra Element Theorem", University of Tehran, ECE Department, May 2003
2 - Student seminar on "Synchronization in Digital Communication Systems", University of Tehran, ECE Department, November 2003
3 - Student seminar on "Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM", University of Tehran, ECE Department, March 2004
4 - Short course on "Adaptive Filter Theory", University of Tehran, ECE Department, July 2004
5 - Student seminar on "Kolmogorov Complexy", University of Tehran, ECE Department, March 2005
6 - Student seminar "Introduction to Security in Computer Networks", University of Tehran, ECE Department, December 2005
7 - Student seminar "Information Theory for Dummies", University of Tehran, ECE Department, December 2005
8 - Student seminar "Why Computer Scientists Entered the Coding Theory Society?", University of Tehran, ECE Department, August 2006
9 - Seminar on "Convex Optimization: Duality Theorem", EPFL-IC, Communication Theory Lab., May 2006
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Teaching Experiences
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1 - Teaching Assistant of Information Theory, EPFL Fall 2006.
2 - Teaching Assistant of Signal Processing for Communications, EPFL, Fall 2006.
3 - Teaching Assistant of Numerical Computations, University of Tehran, Fall 2002.
4 - Teaching Assistant of Introduction to Probability and Statistics, University of Tehran, ECE Department, Fall 2002, Fall 2004.
5 - Teaching Assistant of Communication Systems I, University of Tehran, ECE Department, Fall 2004.
6 - Teaching Assistant of Engineering Mathematics, University of Tehran, ECE Department, Fall 2004, Winter 2005
7 - Teaching Assistant of Electronic III, University of Tehran, ECE Department, Fall 2004.
8 - Teaching Assistant of Field and Waves, University of Tehran, ECE Department, Fall 2004.
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