maryam sabaghiyan,

Education:

1. Postdoctoral fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 2008-2010.
2. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Aug. 2007
3. M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN, Sept. 2001
4. B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN, Sept. 1999

Awards & Scholarships:

1. Best B.Sc. supervised thesis award, Tehran University, 2018.
2. Certificate of “Excellence in Teaching”, Harvard University, 2010
3. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) 2008-2010.
4. Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2006-2007.
5. Gabriel David Warshaw Memorial Scholarship, 2005-2006.
6. Nortel Scholarship, 2005-2006.
7. NSERC eMPOWER scholarship, 2004-2005.

TPC membership:

1. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2014-2019.
2. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GlobeCom 2010, 2012-2015.
3. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Spring 2012.
4. Iran Workshop on Comm. and Information Theory, 2013, 2018-2019.

Students Supervised:

1. Farsiabi, Spring 2013.   Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
2. K. Shamaei, Spring 2013. Ph.D., UC Irvine, California, USA. Current Position: Software Eng. at Apple.
3. Z. Mokhtari, Spring 2013. Ph.D., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
4. M.A. Mirdamadi, Fall 2013. Software Eng., Tehran, Iran.
5. A. Karimi Dehkordi, Summer 2014. Ph.D. Candidate, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
6. A. Ebadi Shahrivar, Summer 2014. Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA.
7. B. Khamidehi, Summer 2016. Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
8. N. HajiAbdolrahim, Summer 2016. Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chalmers, Sweden.
9. I. Dehmollaian, Summer 2016. Software Eng., Huawei Co., Tehran, Iran.
10. P. Shariatmadari, Summer 2017. Software Eng., Tehran, Iran
11. M. Mojarrad, Summer 2017. Software Eng., Iran
12. M.R. Ebrahimi, Summer 2017. Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
13. H. Mousavi Garmaroudi, Summer 2017. Ph.D. Candidate, University of McMaster, Hamilton, Canada.
14. S. MohammadJafari, Summer 2018. Ph.D. Candidate, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
15. B. Soleimani, Summer 2018. Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.
16. S. Akbari, Summer 2018. Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
17. P. M. Ghari, Summer 2019. Ph.D. Candidate, UC Irvine, California, USA.

Journal papers

1. B. Soleimani, B. Khamidehi, M. Sabbaghian,, “No Cross-Validation Required: An Analytical Framework for Regularized Mixed Integer Problems,” IEEE Communictions Letters, Vol. 24, pp. 2868-2872, Dec. 2020.
2. Z. Mokhtari, M. Sabbaghian, R. Dinis, “Downlink Sum-Rates of SC-FDP and OFDM Massive MIMO Systems in Doubly Dispersive Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. .69, pp. 8065-8079, Aug. 2020.
3. B. Soleimani, M. Sabbaghian, “Cluster-based resource allocation and user association in mmWave femtocell networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 68, pp. 1746-1759, Mar. 2020.
4. B. Khamidehi, M. Sabbaghian, “Resource allocation for SC-FDMA femtocell networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol 68, pp. 4573-4585, May 2019.
5. Z. Mokhtari, M. Sabbaghian, R. Dinis, “A survey on massive mimo systems in presence of channel and hardware impairments,” Sensors, 2019
6. N. HajiAbdolrahim, M. Sabbaghian, “Analysis of the Impact of the Receiver I/Q Imbalance on the Achievable Rate of SC-FDE Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 67, pp. 5530-5534, Jun. 2018.
7. Z. Mokhtari, M. Sabbaghian, R. Dinis, “Massive MIMO downlink based on single carrier frequency domain processing,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 66, pp. 1164-1175, Mar. 2018.
8. B. Khamidehi, A. Rahmati, M. Sabbaghian, “Joint sub-channel assignment and power allocation in heterogeneous networks: An efficient optimization method,” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 20, pp. 2490-2493, Dec. 2016.
9. Z. Mokhtari, M. Sabbaghian, “Fractional Fourier Transform Based OFDMA for Doubly Dispersive Channels,” Journal on Communication Engineering, pp. 192-207.
10. Z. Mokhtari, M. Sabbaghian, “Near Optimal Angle of Transform in FrFT-OFDM Systems based on ICI Analysis,” IEEE Transactions of Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, pp. 5777-5783, Jul. 2016.                                                                                             
11. K. Shamaei, M. Sabbaghian, “Analytical Performance Evaluation of SC-FDMA Systems in the presence of Frequency and Time Offset,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 14, pp. 6230-6239, Nov. 2015.
12. A. Mirdamadi and M. Sabbaghian, "Spectrum Sensing of Interleaved SC-FDMA Signals in Cognitive Radio Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 64, pp. 1633 – 1637, Apr. 2015.
13. A. Karimi and M. Sabbaghian, "Optimal joint power allocation and sub-carrier pairing in amplify-and-forward SC-FDMA relaying networks," Electronics Letters,  Vol. 51, 120 – 122, Jan. 2015
14. A. Karimi and M. Sabbaghian, "Resource Allocation for Cooperative LTE-Advanced Uplink," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 18, pp. 1991 – 1994, Nov. 2014.
15. M. Sabbaghian, A. I. Sulyman, and V. Tarokh, "Analysis of the Impact of Non-linearity on the Capacity of Communication Channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, pp. 7671-7683, Nov. 2013.
16. M. Sabbaghian, Y. Kwak, V. Tarokh, "New Codes From Dual BCH Codes With Applications in Low PMEPR OFDM," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications., Vol. 10, pp. 3990-3994, Dec. 2011.
17. M. Sabbaghian, Y. Kwak, B. Smida and V. Tarokh, "Near Shannon limit low Peak to Average Power Ratio Turbo Block Coded OFDM," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 59, pp. 2042-2045, Aug. 2011.
18. M. Sabbbaghian and D. Falconer, "An Analytical Approach for Finite Block Length Performance Analysis of Turbo Frequency Domain Equalization," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 58, pp. 1292-1301, March 2009.
19. M. Sabbaghian and D. Falconer, "Joint Turbo Frequency Domain Equalization and Carrier Synchronization," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 204-212, Jan. 2008.
20. F. Danilo-Lemoine, D. Falconer, C-T Lam, M. Sabbaghian and K. Wesołowski, "Power Backoff Reduction Techniques for Generalized Multicarrier Waveforms," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2008.

Conference papers:

1. R. Ghanavi, M. Sabbaghian, H. Yanikomeroglu “Q-Learning Based Aerial Base Station Placement for Fairness Enhancement in Mobile Networks,” in Proc.  Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Ottawa, Canada, 2019.
2. Z. Mokhtari, M. Sabbaghian, T. Erikson, “Iterative Channel and CFO Estimation for SC-FDE and OFDM Based Massive MIMO Systems,” in Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, Spring 2019.
3. R. Ghanavi, E. Kalantari, M. Sabbaghian, H. Yanikomeroglu, A. Yongacoglu, “Efficient 3D aerial base station placement considering users mobility by reinforcement learning,” in Proc. Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. (WCNC), Barcelona, Spain, 2018.
4. Z. Mokhtari, M. Sabbaghian, R. Dinis, “Sum-rate of block-Wise SC massive MIMO systems in the presence of carrier frequency offset,” in Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Sydney, Australia, Spring, 2017.
5. Z. Mokhtari, M. Sabbaghian, “Comparison between fractional Fourier transform-based single carrier and OFDM systems,” in Proc. Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT), Tehran, Iran, 2016.
6. B. Khamidehi, M. Sabbaghian, H. Saeedi, “Power allocation in uplink LTE femtocells with zero forcing frequency domain equalizer,” in Proc. Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. (WCNC), Doha, Qatar, 2016.
7. M. Sabbaghian, A. Ebadi-Shahrivar, H. Saeedi, “Performance Evaluation of GFDMA Systems Using an Analytical Tool,” Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Boston, USA, Fall, 2015.
8. M. Sabbaghian, A.i. Sulyman, and V. Tarokh, “Capacity Analysis for Gaussian Channels with Memoryless Nonlinear Hardware,” in Proc. International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budaepst, Hungary, Jun. 2013.
9. M. Sabet, R.A. Zoroofi, K.S. Niiat, M. Sabbaghian, “A New System for Driver Drowsiness and Distraction Detection” to appear in Proc. 20th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Tehran, Iran, May 2012.
10. M. Sabet, R.A. Zoroofi, K.S. Niiat and M. Sabbaghian, “Automated face tracking with self-correction capability” in Proc. International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, pp. 280-284, Oct. 2011, Daliar, China.
11. Y. Kwak, M. Sabbaghian, B. Smida and V. Tarokh, “Low peak to average power ratio Turbo Block QPSK coded OFDM, ” in Proc. Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), p.p. 637- 641, Jan. 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
12. M. Sabbaghian and D. Falconer, “BERT chart Analysis of Turbo Frequency Domain Equalization with Imperfect Channel State Information,” in Proc. Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), Apr. 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
13. M. Sabbaghian and D. Falconer, “BERT chart Analysis of Adaptive and Non-Adaptive Turbo Frequency Domain Equalization,” in Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Sept. 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA.
14. M. Sabbaghian and D. Falconer, “Joint Turbo Frequency Domain Equalization and Carrier Synchronization,” in Proc. Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT), June 2007, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
15. D. Falconer, F. Danilo-Lemoine, C. Lam and M. Sabbaghian, “Power Backoff Reduction for Generalized Multicarrier Waveforms,” in Proc. 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Poznan, Poland, Sept. 2007.
16. M. Sabbbaghian, D. Falconer, and H. Saeedi, “BER Transfer Chart Analysis of Turbo Frequency Domain Equalization,” in Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Montreal, QC, Canada, September 2006.
17. M. Sabbaghian and D. Falconer, “Comparison between Convolutional and LDPC code-based Frequency Domain Turbo Equalization,” in Proc. International Conference on Communications (ICC), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
18. M. Sabbaghian and D. Falconer, “Peak to Average Power Ratio Properties of MC-CDMA and SM-CDMA”, in Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, May 2006.
19. M. Sabbaghian and D. Falconer, “Reducing Required Power Back Off of Nonlinear Amplifiers in Serial Modulation using SLM Method”, in Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Dallas, TX, USA, Sept. 2005.
20. R Dinis, D. Falconer, C.T. Lam, and M. Sabbaghian, “A multiple access scheme for the uplink of broadband wireless systems”, in Proc. Global Telecommunications Conference (GlobeCom), Dallas, TX, pp.3808 – 3812, Dec. 2004.
21. D. Falconer, R. Dinis, C.T. Lam, and M. Sabbaghian, “Frequency Domain Orthogonal Signature Sequences (FDOSS) for Uplink DS-CDMA,” in Proc. WWRF 10, New York, Oct., 2003.