EECS Professor Hamid Jafarkhani recognized as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher
Professor highlighted for exceptional citation count in the field of computer science
Hamid Jafarkhani, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineering and computer science, deputy director of the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, and a California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology academic affiliate at the
Thomson Scientific's http://isihighlycited.com is a public website dedicated to featuring the world’s most highly cited authors in numerous fields and disciplines. Thomson Scientific reports that less than one half of one percent of publishing authors fulfill the criteria set for inclusion on the list and website, and the site currently highlights more than 5,000 profiles in 21 categories.
Author of the book, “Space-Time Coding: Theory and Practice,” Jafarkhani is one of the inventors of space-time block coding, which is widely used to improve wireless transmission quality. He is currently concentrating on the theoretical and practical challenges of designing systems and networks that use multiple antennas.
He has also been involved in developing data compression algorithms, especially for image and video coding. His recent work in this field focuses on the transmission of multimedia information over wireless networks and the Internet.
Jafarkhani received a B.S. degree in electronics from
To learn more about Jafarkhani’s research, please visit: http://newport.eecs.uci.edu/~hamidj/index.html.
