Hatef Nouri earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, and a master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey.

He was previously a teaching and research assistant with the Communication Theory and Technologies Research Group . Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Nouri specializes in telecommunications, with a focus on the physical layer aspects of wireless communication. His research interests span information theory, signal processing, software-defined radios (SDRs), millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications, cooperative communications, optical wireless communications and underwater acoustic wireless communications. He also performed information-theoretical performance analysis of underwater acoustic communication systems. His doctoral research focused on adaptive MIMO free-space optical communication systems. Currently, he is involved in the development of theory, algorithms, software and hardware designs for 5G and mm-wave communication systems on SDR platforms.