Bobak Nazer

Bobak NazerAssistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2009

Information Sciences and Systems
Information Systems and Sciences Laboratory

bobak@bu.edu
(617) 358-5858
webpage
office: PHO 441

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • Dean’s Catalyst Award, College of Engineering, Boston University (2011)
  • Eli Jury Award, EECS Department, UC Berkeley (2009)

Classes Taught

  • EC515 Digital Communication
  • EC 517 Introduction of Information Theory

Research Interests

  • Information Theory and Communications
  • Reliable Computation over Networks
  • Distributed Signal Processing

Additional Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, “Compute-and-Forward: Harnessing Interference through Structured Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear in 2011.
  • B. Nazer, A. G. Dimakis, and M. Gastpar, “Local Interference can Accelerate Gossip Algorithms,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, to appear August 2011.
  • B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, “Reliable Physical Layer Network Coding,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Network Coding, vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 438-460, March 2011.
  • B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, “The Case for Structured Random Codes in Network Capacity Theorems,” European Transactions on Telecommunications, Special Issue on New Directions in Information Theory, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 455-474, June 2008.
  • B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, “Computation over Multiple-Access Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Models, Theory, and Codes for Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3498-3516, October 2007. )