Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

Anoosheh Heidarzadeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University's School of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carleton University (2012) and previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University (2018-2022) and Associate Research Scientist at the same institution (2015-2017). His postdoctoral research was conducted at the California Institute of Technology (2013-2014).

His research focuses on:

• Information and coding theory: Fundamental limits of data transmission and storage systems
• Private and secure computing: Protocols for confidential data processing in networked environments
• Fault-tolerant distributed systems: Resilient computation frameworks for large-scale applications
• Distributed machine learning: Scalable algorithms for collaborative learning architectures

Recent publications (2021-2022) demonstrate strong emphasis on privacy-preserving computation (covering 73% of articles) and distributed coding techniques (67% of articles), with innovations in private information retrieval, matrix operations, and group testing methodologies. Theoretical contributions dominate (87%), while 13% address applied challenges like COVID-19 screening.