He is affiliated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern. Prof. Elhamifar is a recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award and the NSF CISE Career Research Initiation Initiative Award. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department at the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Elhamifar obtained his PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the Johns Hopkins University. He obtained two Masters degrees, one in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and another in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the Johns Hopkins University.