Pedram Johari

Pedram Johari (S'11) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant under the guidance of Professor Josep Miquel Jornet. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran, and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Communication Systems) from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2006 and 2012, respectively. From July 2007 to August 2014 he has been working as a team member and team leader for Mobile Broad Band (MBB) planning and optimization projects in several world-class wireless telecom service provider companies. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, for outstanding academic achievements in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo in 2015. He also received the Ultra-Broadband Nanoscale Communication and Networking Laboratory Researcher of the Year Award in 2016. In the same year, he received the University at Buffalo Engineering Leaders in Excellence Award for his excellent leadership skills through scholastic accomplishments. He is a member of the IEEE and the SPIE. His current research interests are in Terahertz-band communication networks, Electromagnetic nanonetworks, Nanoscale optical wireless communication and Intra-Body Wireless Nanosensor Networks.