Biography

Omid Momtahan was a member of the Iranian Physics Olympiad Team in 1992, participating in the 23rd International Competitions in Helsinki, Finland. He obtained a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Shiraz in 1996, ranking first among his graduating class. He was with the Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology from 1996, obtaining a M.S. degree in 1998.

Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the best paper award at the 50th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in September 1999. His research interests are volume holographic memories, optical communications and wireless communications.

Research Interests