Amir Keyvan Khandani
Biography
Dr. Amir Khandani is a Professor and NSERC/Ciena Industrial Research Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He previously held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Wireless Communications and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Information Theory. Currently, he holds the Senior Ciena-NSERC Industrial Research Chair on Network Information Theory of Optical Channels. Dr. Khandani has also held two Senior NSERC Industrial Research Chairs, funded jointly by Blackberry/NSERC and Nortel/NSERC.
Dr. Khandani’s research focuses on the physical and media-access control (MAC) layers of telecommunications systems, information theory, and signal processing, with a primary emphasis on wireless and optical transmission. His work aims to deepen the understanding of foundational principles, advance the theory in key areas, and translate this knowledge into practical applications for commutations systems.
Dr. Khandani earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tehran University in 1985, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1992. He joined the University of Waterloo in 1993, where he has since supervised over 45 PhD students, 35 master's students, 35 post-doctoral fellows, and 20 research engineers. Many of his former team members have gone on to successful careers in industry and academia around the world.
Dr. Khandani is an active contributor to the wireless communications community, frequently serving on technical program committees for major conferences. He has also acted as a consultant to various industrial and government agencies, and regularly delivers lectures and keynote speeches globally.
Dr. Khandani’s research focuses on the physical and media-access control (MAC) layers of telecommunications systems, information theory, and signal processing, with a primary emphasis on wireless and optical transmission. His work aims to deepen the understanding of foundational principles, advance the theory in key areas, and translate this knowledge into practical applications for commutations systems.
Dr. Khandani earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tehran University in 1985, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1992. He joined the University of Waterloo in 1993, where he has since supervised over 45 PhD students, 35 master's students, 35 post-doctoral fellows, and 20 research engineers. Many of his former team members have gone on to successful careers in industry and academia around the world.
Dr. Khandani is an active contributor to the wireless communications community, frequently serving on technical program committees for major conferences. He has also acted as a consultant to various industrial and government agencies, and regularly delivers lectures and keynote speeches globally.
Research Interests
- Information Theory with emphasis on networks, Wireless Communications, Structure of lattices, Digital Communications, Communication Systems, Information systems, Security, Information Theory, Signal Processing, Optical Communications, Wireless Transmission, Optical Transmission, Communication Networks, Advanced Manufacturing, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure integrity
Education
- 1992, Doctorate Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Quebec
- 1985, Bachelor's Electrical Engineering, Tehran University, Iran
- 1985, Master's Electrical Engineering, Tehran University, Iran
Teaching*
- ECE 307 - Probability Theory and Statistics 2
- Taught in 2021, 2023, 2024
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.
Selected/Recent Publications
- Moshksar, Kamyar and Khandani, Amir K, Arbitrarily Tight Bounds on Differential Entropy of Gaussian Mixtures, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 3340, 2016
- Ebrahimzadeh, Ehsan and Moshksar, Kamyar and Khandani, Amir K, Signaling Over Two-User Parallel Gaussian Interference Channels: Outage Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2573, 2016
- Bourgoin, Jean-Philippe and Gigov, Nikolay and Higgins, Brendon L and Yan, Zhizhong and Meyer-Scott, Evan and Khandani, Amir K and Lütkenhaus, Norbert and Jennewein, Thomas, Experimental quantum key distribution with simulated ground-to-satellite photon losses and processing limitations, Physical Review A, 052339, 2015
- Moshksar, Kamyar and Ghasemi, Akbar and Khandani, Amir K, An alternative to decoding interference or treating interference as Gaussian noise, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 305, 2015
- Seifi, Ehsan and Atamanesh, Mehran and Khandani, Amir K, Media-Based MIMO: A New Frontier in Wireless Communications, arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07516, , 2015
Graduate studies
- Currently considering applications from graduate students. A completed online application is required for admission; start the application process now.