Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on information theory, communication systems, distributed computing, and blockchain technology.

• University of Waterloo (Ph.D.)
• University of California at Berkeley (Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Nokia Bell Labs (2010-2020)

His work addresses fundamental limits of distributed systems through theoretical advancements like interference alignment, coded caching, and secure multi-party computation. Recent publications emphasize secure aggregation in federated learning and blockchain security.

He has received multiple awards including IEEE Fellow (2023), IEEE Jack Keil Wolf Student Paper Award (2017), and IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award (2016). He has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and leads the Maddah Research Group.