He received M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1995 and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Manitoba in 2001. He has held research positions in the Communications Group at UNIK, University Oslo, Norway during the 2007-2009 period. He has served in the technical program committees of a number of international conferences in the areas of communications and signal processing. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. His research interests include statistical signal processing in communication systems, vector quantization and its applications in signal processing and communications, multimedia coding, joint source-channel coding for wireless systems and networks, distributed coding for sensor networks, and signal processing and digital communication in smart-power grids.