January 18, 2011 –
Jafarkhani
Hamid Jafarkhani, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a CALIT2 academic participant, is one of four UC Irvine professors recently elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The four were honored, along with nearly 500 other members of the organization, in recognition of distinguished contributions to their fields. AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society elects Fellows in a wide cross-section of fields, including agriculture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics and engineering.
Jafarkhani, who also serves as Conexant-Broadcom Endowed Chair, director of the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, and director of the Networked Systems Program, was one of 16 new Fellows elected to the Section on Information, Computing and Communications.
His research focuses on communications theory, with an emphasis on coding. He is one of the inventors of space-time block coding, which is widely used to improve wireless transmission quality. He also has been involved in developing data compression algorithms, especially for image and video coding, used to improve end-to-end recovery and enhance the quality of service.
UCI ‘s other newly elected AAAS Fellows include Diane Campbell (ecology & evolutionary biology), Frank LaFerla, neurobiology & behavior) and Bert Semler (microbiology & molecular genetics).
The new Fellows will receive official recognition next month at the 2011 AAAS annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
