Rate My Professor Hamid Bahrami

Dr. Hamid Bahrami is currently the Professor and Chair at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Mississippi, having joined in 2024. Before this appointment, he was a Professor in the ECE department at the University of Akron, Ohio, and served as the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies there for seven years. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, obtained in 2008. He also possesses an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2003, and a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2001. Between 2007 and 2009, prior to his academic career at Akron, Dr. Bahrami worked as a scientist at Wavesat Inc. (now Marvell Technology) in Montreal, Canada, where he led an R&D team responsible for developing MIMO transmission and reception algorithms for 4G wireless technologies, including the WiMAX and LTE standards.

Dr. Bahrami's main areas of research include wireless communications, information theory, data analytics, and applications of signal processing in communication. His research specializations further encompass wireless communications and networks, statistical signal processing, cybersecurity and cross-layer security, cyber-physical systems and smart grids, nanoscale and molecular communications, data analytics and machine learning, and advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0/5.0. In his professional service, he has served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (formerly known as European Transactions on Telecommunications). Additionally, he has been a Guest Editor for The Scientific World Journal and Electronics, and a Technical Program Committee member for numerous IEEE conferences such as IEEE GLOBECOM and the International Conference on Communications (ICC). Dr. Bahrami is recognized as a Senior Member of the IEEE, and holds memberships in the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.