Bobak Nazer named Distinguished Faculty Fellow
CISE Faculty Affiliate and Associate Professor Bobak Nazer (ECE, SE) was named a Distinguished Faculty Fellow by the College of Engineering. The award recognizes mid-career faculty members for significant contributions to their field. The fellowship will provide Nazer with research support funding for the next five years.
“I am thrilled and honored to be selected for this fellowship,” says Nazer. “We are lucky to have such a friendly and collaborative culture in BU ENG, and I am looking forward to using these funds to explore new research directions and teaching initiatives with colleagues and students.”
The College of Engineering honored Nazer in recognition of his extraordinary performance and impact in research and service to the College and profession.
Nazer received the BU ECE Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award in 2018, the BU ECE Faculty Service Award in 2017, the Dean’s Catalyst Award from the BU College of Engineering in 2017 and 2011, IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2013, the NSF CAREER Award in 2013, and the Eli Jury Award from the UC Berkeley EECS Department in 2009. He was the General Chair for the IEEE 2019 North American School of Information Theory and was one of the co-organizers for the Spring 2016 Thematic Program at the Institut Henri Poincaré on the Nexus of Information and Computation Theories.
Nazer’s broad research interests include information theory, communications, signal processing, and neuroscience. He completed his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he received the M.S. degree in 2005 and the Ph.D degree in 2009, both in electrical engineering. Prior to this, he was an undergraduate at Rice University where he received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2003. From 2009 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.