Nariman Farvardin
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Nariman Farvardin is the dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1984, one year after earning his doctorate, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 1995, he became Chair of the Department, holding that position for five years before being appointed Dean of the Clark School of Engineering. In addition, he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1998. As of 2000, the IEEE has published 20 articles written or co-written by him, dating back to 1990. His major research interests include information theory, signal compression, and applications of signal compression to speech, image, and video coding for wireless communication networks.
He is originally from Iran and left his undergraduate educations at Sharif Univ. of Technology incomplete and moved to US to pursue his education.
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- Personal homepage at the University of Maryland's Department of Electrical Engineering
- Biography at the A. James Clark School of Engineering
- Biography at the Institute for Systems Research
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