Hamid Saeedi (S’01-M’08) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and

the Ph.D. degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2007, all in electrical engineering. In 2008-2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. In 2010, he joined the Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, where he is now an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include coding and

information theory, wireless communications, and resource allocation in conventional, heterogeneous and cognitive radio networks.

Dr. Saeedi is currently an editor for IEEE Communications Letters. He has been a technical program committee member of some international conferences.

This includes Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2012, Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014, 2015 and International

Conference on Communications (ICC), 2015. Dr. Saeedi is the recipient of some awards including Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic

Achievement, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Research and Development Fellowship, and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.