Bobak Nazer EECS Department University of California, Berkeley 264 Cory Hall Berkeley, CA 94720

Brief Bio

I am a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. My advisor is Michael Gastpar and I am a member of the Sensory Information Processing and Communication group which is a part of the Wireless Foundations Center. In December 2005, I received my MS from Berkeley and in May 2003, I received my BS from Rice University, both in Electrical Engineering. In May 2009, I received the Eli Jury Award for Outstanding Achievement in Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing. Click here for a recent CV.

Publications

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Preprints

• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Compute-and-Forward: Harnessing Interference through Structured Codes, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, August 2009.

Journal Papers

• 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. IEEExplore version.

Conference Papers

• B. Nazer, M. Gastpar, S. A. Jafar, and S. Vishwanath, Ergodic Interference Alignment, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), Seoul, Korea, June 2009. Slides.


• J. Zhan, B. Nazer, M. Gastpar, and U. Erez, MIMO Compute-and-Forward, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), Seoul, Korea, June 2009.


• B. Nazer, A. Sanderovich, M. Gastpar, and S. Shamai, Structured Superposition for Backhaul Constrained Cellular Uplink, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), Seoul, Korea, June 2009. Slides.


• B. Nazer, A. G. Dimakis, and M. Gastpar, Neighborhood Gossip: Concurrent Averaging through Local Interference. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009. Slides.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Compute-and-Forward: A Novel Strategy for Cooperative Networks, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey, CA, October 2008. Slides.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, The Case for Structured Random Codes: Beyond Linear Models. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Commununication, Control and Computation, Monticello, IL, September 2008.


• B. Nazer, A. G. Dimakis, and M. Gastpar, Local Interference Can Accelerate Gossip Algorithms. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Commununication, Control and Computation, Monticello, IL, September 2008.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Compute-and-Forward: Harnessing Interference with Structured Codes, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2008), Toronto, Canada, July 2008. Slides.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Compute-and-Forward: Error-Correcting Codes for Wireless Network Coding on the Physical Layer, Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Network Coding (WiNC 2008), San Francisco, CA, June 2008.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Structured Random Codes and Sensor Network Coding Theorems. Proceedings of the 20th Biennial International Zurich Seminar on Commununication (IZS 2008), Zurich, Switzerland, March 2008.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Lattice Coding Increases Multicast Rates for Gaussian Multiple-Access Networks. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Commununication, Control and Computation, Monticello, IL, September 2007. Slides.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, The Case for Structured Random Codes in Network Communication Theorems, Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2007), Lake Tahoe, CA, September 2007. (Corrects error from published version.) Slides.


• A. D. Sarwate, B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Spatial Filtering in Sensor Networks with Computation Codes, Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP 2007), Madison, WI, August 2007.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Computation over Gaussian Multiple-Access Channels, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2007), Nice, France, June 2007. (Corrects error from published version.)


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Computing over Multiple-Access Channels with Connections to Wireless Network Coding, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2006), Seattle, WA, July 2006. Slides.


• B. Nazer and M. Gastpar, Reliable Computation over Multiple-Access Channels. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Allerton Conference on Commununication, Control and Computation, Monticello, IL, September 2005. Slides.

Invited Talks

• Exploiting Interference through Structured Codes. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Electrical and Computer Engineering Systems Seminar, April 2009.


• Exploiting Interference through Structured Codes. Harvard University, Electrical Engineering Seminar, April 2009.


• Exploiting Interference through Structured Codes. University of California, San Diego, 4th Annual Information Theory and Applications Workshop, Graduation Day, February 2009. Video of talk.


• Structural Gain in Network Communication Theorems. Texas A&M Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Networking Seminar, November 2007.


• Computation and Reliable Communciation: Structural Gain and Applications. Rice University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquim, March 2007.

Teaching

In the fall of 2003, I was a Graduate Student Instructor for EE20N: Structure and Interpretation of Systems and Signals. The following spring I was a GSI for EE120: Signals and Systems. For my work in these classes, I was selected as the Outstanding GSI in Electrical Engineering for 2004. During my undergrad years, I was a TA for Signals and Systems, Intro to EE, and Organic Chemistry.

I'm a bit of an amateur photographer.