Biography

Ali Asghar Eftekhar has received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1996 and 1998. In 2003 he moved to the US. He is currently a PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was an Iranian Physics Olympiad Team member in 1992 in Helsinki, Finland, and also ranked first in national Iranian electrical engineering in 1996.

He is cofounder of two companies in 1999 and 2002 in the field of digital broadcasting technology, wireless technology, digital processing, IP telephony and soft switching, where he has served as technical manager and CEO from 1999 to 2003.

Research Interests