BABAK MAMANDIPOOR
Address:
4164A Harold Frank Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Communications and Signal Processing
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Advisor: Prof. Upamanyu Madhow
Contact Info:
Tel: +1 (805) 220-8682
Email: babak@umail.ucsb.edu
bmamandi@ece.ucsb.edu
Sep. 2013 - Present
M.A.Sc., Communications and Information Systems
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
GPA: 96.2
Sep. 2010 - Jan. 2013
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering
Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran
Honor: ranked 1st among EE students
Sep. 2005 - Mar. 2010
RESEARCH INTERESTS
-Millimeter Wave Communications/Radar
-Compressed Sensing and Sparse Approximation
-Statistical Signal Processing
-Convex Optimization
-Information Theory
SELECTED COURSES
Digital Communications, Information Theory, Estimation Theory, Machine Learning, Error-Correcting
Codes, Communication Networks, Digital Signal Processing, Linear Algebra, Stochastic Processes.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Compressed Sensing and Sparse Approximation over Infinite Dictionaries: Introduced Newtonized Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (NOMP) algorithm, which generalizes
the well-known OMP algorithm to a continuously parametrized overcomplete basis using Newton refinements. For the fundamental problem of estimating gains and frequencies from a
mixture of sinusoids, we have shown that NOMP algorithm closely approaches fundamental
estimation-theoretic limits, while maintaining low computational complexity.
• Line-of-Sight MIMO Communication Systems: Designing low-power information-preserving
front ends for mm-wave communication. Deploying dynamically adaptive analog front-ends
enabling efficient and scalable implementation while preserving capacity and channel rank.
• Millimeter Wave Radar Imaging systems with commercial, medical, and human gesture
recognition applications: introduced spatial aggregation technique to address the grating lobe
issue of sparse monostatic arrays, targeting applications such as data collection in low-cost
portable handheld devices. Spatial aggregation replaces the point scatterer primitive by a
different set of basis functions, more suited for short-range imaging.
• Multiple Access Channel with peak power constraints: On the optimality of discrete
probability distributions for achieving any point on the boundary of the capacity region, as
well as sub-optimality of orthogonal signalling.
PUBLICATIONS
(J2) B. Mamandipoor, D. Ramasamy, U. Madhow, “Newtonized Orthogonal Matching Pursuit:
Frequency Estimation over the Continuum,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP), 2015. (available online: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.01942.pdf )
(C5) B. Mamandipoor, M. Sawaby, A. Arbabian, U. Madhow, “Hardware-Constrained Signal
Processing for mm-wave LoS MIMO,” invited paper, 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov. 2015, Pacific Grove, USA. (available online: http:
//www.ece.ucsb.edu/wcsl/Publications/Babak_Asilomar_2015.pdf)
(C4) B. Mamandipoor, D. Ramasamy, U. Madhow, “Frequency Estimation for a Mixture of Sinusoids: A Near-Optimal Sequential Approach,” 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and
Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Dec. 2015. (available online: http://www.ece.ucsb.
edu/wcsl/Publications/Babak_GlobalSIP_2015.pdf)
(C3) B. Mamandipoor, G. Malysa, A. Arbabian, U. Madhow, K. Noujeim, “60 GHz Synthetic
Aperture Radar for Short-Range Imaging: Theory and Experiments,” 48th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov. 2014, Pacific Grove, USA. (available online:
http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/wcsl/Publications/Babak_Asilomar_2014.pdf)
(J1) B. Mamandipoor, K. Moshksar, Amir K. Khandani, “Capacity-Achieving Distributions in
Gaussian Multiple Access Channel With Peak Power Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 6080-6092, Oct. 2014.
(C2) K. Moshksar, B. Mamandipoor, Amir K. Khandani, “On Orthogonal Signalling in Gaussian
Multiple Access Channel With Peak Constraints,” proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
(C1) B. Mamandipoor, K. Moshksar, Amir K. Khandani, “On The Sum-Capacity of Gaussian
MAC With Peak Constraint,” proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp 26-30, July 2012, Boston, USA.
PROFESSIONAL DUTIES
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics
in Signal Processing (JSTSP), IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom).
DISTINCTIONS
• Faculty of Engineering (FOE) Award for excellence in research and coursework, University
of Waterloo, 2010-2011.
• International Master Student Award, Univ. of Waterloo, 2010-2012.
• Ranked 1st among 120 EE students, IUST, GPA: 17.79/20, 2005-2010.
• Ranked top 0.1%, National Undergrad Entrance Exam, Iran, 2005.
• Semi-finalist of National Physics, Math and Informatics Olympiads 2004.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Computer Programming: Matlab, Java, C, C++