New Faculty Spotlight: Hessam Mahdavifar
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Hessam Mahdavifar joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2023 as an Associate Professor.
He has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California San Diego, La Jolla. His research interests include coding and information theory, wireless communications, data privacy and security, privacy-preserving computing and learning.