I received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Shiraz University, Sharif University of Technology, and Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, in 1996, 1998, and 2004, respectively. Since September 2004, I have been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, where I am currently an associate professor. My research interests include information theory, image processing, sparse coding, and machine learning.