I received my Ph.D. degree from the EECS department at Pennsylvania State University, working on the topic of large-scale machine learning problems. I obtained my B.Sc. and M.Sc. from University of Tabriz and Sharif University of Technology respectively. Prior to joining Pennsylvania State University, I was research assistant at the Information Engineering Department of Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research interests are broadly in the areas of information and coding theory and its application in machine learning and distributed computing.