Fariba Abbasi

Fariba Abbasi (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, and the Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, under the supervision of Prof. Emanuele Viterbo. She worked as a Junior Research Assistant with the Information Systems and Security Laboratory (ISSL), Sharif University of Technology (SUT), from 2014 to 2015, and worked with the Institute of Network Coding (INC), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), from 2015 to 2016. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Hessam Mahdavifar. She received several awards and honors, including two visiting scholar’s fellowships from the Institute of Network Coding (INC) and the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in 2015 and 2016, respectively, Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS) and Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS) in 2017, and Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Top-Up Scholarship in 2018. Her research interests broadly lie in coding and information theory and machine learning with applications in telecommunications.