He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering at Colorado State University in 2004. In 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Colorado State University. From January 2006 to August 2008, he was a postdoctoral research associate with The Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. His research interests are in statistical signal processing, coding theory, active/passive sensing, and bioimaging. He is currently serving as a member of the Editorial Board of IEEEAccess.