Rate My Professor Hamid Bahrami

Dr. Hamid Bahrami is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Mississippi, having joined in 2024. Prior to this appointment, he was a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Akron, Ohio, where he also served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies for seven years. Earlier, from 2007 to 2009, he was a scientist at Wavesat Inc. (now Marvell Technology) in Montreal, Canada, leading an R&D team that developed MIMO transmission and reception algorithms for 4G wireless technologies, including WiMAX and LTE standards. Dr. Bahrami earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 2008. His professional trajectory reflects a strong commitment to advancing wireless technologies and engineering education.

Dr. Bahrami's research specializations encompass wireless communications and networks, statistical signal processing, cybersecurity and cross-layer security, cyber-physical systems and smart grids, nanoscale and molecular communications, data analytics and machine learning, and advanced manufacturing for Industry 4.0/5.0. His main areas of research include wireless communications, information theory, data analytics, and applications of signal processing in communication. He holds the distinction of Senior Member of the IEEE, and is a member of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. In the academic publishing realm, Dr. Bahrami serves as Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (formerly European Transactions on Telecommunications), and has acted as Guest Editor for The Scientific World Journal and Electronics. He also contributes as a Technical Program Committee member for numerous IEEE conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM and the International Conference on Communications (ICC), influencing the direction of research in electrical and computer engineering.