Instructors

Joel B. Harley: Lead Instructor

Education

BS, Electrical Engineering, Tufts University
MA, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Bio

Joel B. Harley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. His interests include the integration of complex wave propagation models with novel signal processing, machine learning, and big data methods for applications in cyber-physical systems, structural health monitoring, nondestructive evaluation, and other fields.

Dr. Harley is a recipient of the the University of Utah's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2016 Teaching Award, the University of Utah's 2016 Career Services Mentoring Award, the 2014 Carnegie Mellon A. G. Jordan Award (for academic excellence and exceptional service to the community), the 2009 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, the 2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, the 2009 Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellowship (declined), and the 2008 Lamme/Westinghouse Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Fellowship. He has published more than 40 technical journal and conference papers, including four best student papers. He is a student advisor for the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, the president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Utah Chapter, a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a member of the Acoustical Society of America.

Responsibilities

Prof. Harley is responsible for designing the course, teaching lectures, generating online lecture notes, holding office hours, building lab assignments, writing homework, and grading quizzes. If you have any questions about the course, feel free to contact him.

Hossein Mehrpou: Course Assistant and Grader

Bio

Hossein Mehrpourbernety (Hossein M. Bernety) was born in Sary, Iran, in September 1987. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering-Communications from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, in 2010, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering-Communications from Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran, in 2013.

From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Mississippi, where he earned his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering-Electromagnetics. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD degree under the supervision of Professor Schurig at the University of Utah. His main research interests include electromagnetic scattering, cloaking, antennas, and antenna arrays.

Mr. Mehrpourbernety is a student member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was the recipient of the Honorable Mention Award in the student paper competition held at the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS), Memphis. In recognition of his active research work, he received the University of Mississippi Graduate Research Award in 2015.

Responsibilities

Hossein is responsible for aiding class instruction as well as generating homework solutions, grading homework, and holding office hours.

Naren Viswanathan Mehrpou: Course Assistant and Grader

Bio

Naren Viswanathan is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah currently working under Dr. David Schurig in millimeter wave imaging. He received his Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering from Amrita University, India in 2011. His areas of interest include Metamaterials, Antenna design, and Imaging techniques. Outside of work, he enjoys photography, music, and travelling.

Responsibilities

Naren is responsible for aiding class instruction as well as generating homework solutions, grading homework, and holding office hours.

Kazem Kolowri: Laboratory Teaching Assistant

Bio

Kazem Hashemizadeh received his B.Sc. degree from Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2008, and the M.Sc. degree from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran, in 2012, both in electrical engineering. In his master, his research was on the sensitivity analysis of OFDMA and SC-FDMA uplink systems to carrier frequency offsets. After completing the master degree, he worked as a research engineer with a research group at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

During his work experience he involved in several projects including PHY of LTE in the Downlink. From Fall 2014 to present he has been a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah. His research interests include OFDM and multicarrier communications, signal processing techniques for wireless communications, MIMO communications, error correction and signal processing techniques for DNA sequencing.

Responsibilities

Kazem is responsible for aiding class instruction as well as instructing, managing, and grading for labs.

Pooja Mehta: Laboratory Teaching Assistant

Bio

Pooja Mehta is a Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah. She completed her Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India in 2015. She is currently pursuing her Master’s Thesis in Structural Health Monitoring in Composite Structures with Prof. Joel Harley.

Responsibilities

Pooja is responsible for aiding class instruction as well as instructing, managing, and grading for labs.