Honors and Awards
2019-2021 McKnight Land-Grant Professor, University of Minnesota
2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
2010 Swiss National Science Foundation Prospective Researcher (Post-Doctoral) Fellowship
2010 Finalist for the best student paper award at IEEE ISIT
Selected Publications
• Compressed Sensing
[J11] A. Hormati, A. Karbasi, S. Mohajer, and M. Vetterli, “An Estimation Theoretic Approach for Sparsity Pattern Recovery in the Noisy Setting,” submitted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters, May 2011.
• Smart Grid
[C19] S. R. Rajagopalan, L. Sankar, S. Mohajer, H. V. Poor, “Smart Meter Privacy: A Utility-Privacy Framework”, in Proc. of IEEE SmartGridComm, Belgium, Oct. 2011.
[J10] L. Sankar, S. R. Rajagopalan, S. Mohajer, H. V. Poor, “Smart Meter Privacy: A Theoretical Frame- work”, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, July 2012.
• Source Transmission on Networks
[C26] R. Tandon, S. Mohajer and H. V. Poor, “ Cascade Source Coding with Erased Side Information,” in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 2011.
• Huffman Coding
[J14] S. Mohajer, P. Pakzad, and A. Kakhbod, “Tight Bounds on the Redundancy of Huffman Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 6737–6746, Nov. 2012.
[J15] S. Mohajer, A. Kakhbod, “Anti-Uniform Huffman Codes”, IET Communications, pp. 1213–1219, vol. 5, no. 9, June 2011.
• Search in Non-metric Space
[C22] D. Tschopp, S. Diggavi, P. Delgosha, and S. Mohajer, “Randomized Algorithms for Comparison- based Search,” in Proc. of Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Spain, Sep. 2011.
[J13] D. Tschopp, S. Diggavi, P. Delgosha, and S. Mohajer, “Randomized Algorithms for Comparison- based Search”, to be submitted to Journal of Machine Learning Research.
• Network Tomography and Group Testing
[C21] M. Cheraghchi, A. Karbasi, S. Mohajer, and V. Saligrama, “Graph-Constrained Group Testing”, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, USA, June 2010.
[J12] M. Cheraghchi, A. Karbasi, S. Mohajer, and V. Saligrama, “Graph-Constrained Group Testing”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 248–262, Jan. 2012.
• Dynamic Systems
[C17] S. Mohajer and B. Touri, “On Convergence Rate of Scalar Hegselmann-Krause Dynamics,” sub- mitted to ” American Control Conference, 2012.
• Network Coding
C16] M. Jafari, S. Mohajer, C. Fragouli, and S. N. Diggavi, “On the Capacity of Non-Coherent Network Coding”, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, South Korea, July 2009.
[J9] M. Jafari, S. Mohajer, C. Fragouli, and S. N. Diggavi, “On the Capacity of Non-Coherent Network Coding”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no 2, pp. 1046–1066, Feb. 2011.
• Reliability and Secrecy in Wireless Networks
[C14] S. Mohajer, S. Diggavi, H. V. Poor, and S. Shamai (Shitz), “On the Parallel Relay Wire-tap Net- work,” in Proc. of 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Illinois, USA, Sep. 2011.
[J8] S. Mohajer, S. Diggavi, H. V. Poor, and S. Shamai (Shitz). “On the MIMO Diamond Wire-tap Net- work,” to be submitted to IEEE Transaction on Information Theory.
• Bioinformatics
[J7] S. Mohajer, A. S. Motahari, and D. N. C. Tse, “Reference based DNA sequencing: Fundamental limits and optimum algorithms” under preparation.
• Relay-Interference Network
[J3] S. Mohajer, S. N. Diggavi, C. Fragouli and D. N. C. Tse, “Approximate Capacity of a Class of Relay- Interference Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no 5, pp. 2837–2864, May 2011.
• Approximation of Multiple Description Problem
[J2] S. Mohajer, C. Tian, and S. N. Diggavi, “Asymmetric Gaussian Multiple Descriptions and Asym- metric Multilevel Diversity Coding”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no 9, pp. 4367–4387, Sep. 2010.
• Multi-level Source Coding
[C1] S. Mohajer, C. Tian, and S. N. Diggavi, “Asymmetric Multi-level Diversity Coding,” in Proc. Of IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, USA, Mar. 2008.
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