Dr. Faramarz Fekri is the John Pippin Chair Professor and ECE-GTRI Fellow at Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He leads the SENTINEL Research Lab, focusing on interdisciplinary research in machine learning, semantic communication, causal discovery, and biomarker sensing. His work bridges theoretical foundations with practical applications in federated learning, neuro-symbolic AI, and molecular communication. He has held editorial roles at IEEE Transactions journals and has received numerous awards including IEEE Fellow (2015) and the Sony Faculty Research Innovation Award (2018). His research spans over 150 publications, with recent emphasis on differentiable inductive logic programming, adversarial defense frameworks, and compressed sensing systems. Education: B.Sc./M.Sc. from Sharif University, Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. Affiliations include the Center for Machine Learning and the Center for Energy and Geo Processing (CeGP). Current projects include learning via inductive logic reasoning, neuro-symbolic reinforcement learning, and causal discovery from data. Notable achievements include developing BP-based trust systems, network compression frameworks using finite-field wavelets, and frameworks for analog joint source-channel coding. His SENTINEL Lab collaborates on biomarker sensing and molecular communication in biological systems.










