Masoud Salehi

Dr. Masoud Salehi is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, USA. He holds a BS (Summa Cum Laude) from Tehran University and MS/PhD from Stanford University. Previously, he worked at Isfahan University of Technology and Tehran University. His research focuses on error-correcting codes, information theory, digital communications, and physical-layer security. He has authored influential textbooks including Communication Systems Engineering (Prentice-Hall) and Contemporary Communication Systems Using MATLAB.

Education: BS (Tehran U.), MS/PhD (Stanford U.). Visiting Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (1988-1989).

Research Interests: Network information theory, source-channel matching, data compression, turbo coding, coding for fading channels, digital watermarking. Recent work emphasizes physical-layer security in multi-user wireless networks and jamming mitigation strategies.

Grants & Industry: Supported by NSF, GTE, NUWC, CenSSIS, Analog Devices. Consulted for Teleco Oilfield Services and AT&T.

Awards: 2024 Outstanding Faculty Service Award. Editorial Board member of International Journal of Electronics and Communications.

Key Contributions: Developed precoding techniques for MIMO systems, game-theoretic jamming mitigation, and LDPC decoding algorithms. Active in the Institute of Information Assurance (IIA) and Communications, Control & Signal Processing research group at Northeastern.