Ehsan Aryafar

Ehsan Aryafar is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science at Portland State University (PSU), with a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Previously, he served as a Research Scientist at Intel Labs (2013-2017) and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University (2011-2013).

His educational background includes a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University (2011, 2007) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2005). His research spans wireless networks and networked systems, with focus areas in mmWave communications, full-duplex wireless, virtual reality support over wireless, and distributed machine learning at the network edge. He leads the Networks and Wireless Systems (NeWS) Lab at PSU, which maintains equipment including WARP WiFi FPGAs, NVIDIA Jetsons, mmWave radios, and VR gear.

His publications reveal a strong emphasis on practical implementation alongside theoretical modeling, with recent work focusing on VR streaming over mmWave, deep learning for blockage mitigation, and EBG-based antenna designs for full-duplex systems. The research trajectory shows evolution from foundational work in wireless mesh networks to cutting-edge explorations of 6G-enabling technologies.

Award highlights include the 2020 NSF CAREER award, 2023-2025 David E. Wedge Vision Professorship, and the 2025 IEEE AIIoT Best Paper award. He has authored over 30 patents in mobile and wireless systems and serves on editorial boards including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

As an educator, he teaches advanced courses in Wireless Networks, Virtual Reality, and Machine Learning, emphasizing hands-on implementation with Unity and Python. His mentorship spans 29 students including 5 Ph.D. graduates, with recent advisees founding startups like CacheWave based on their research.