Jawad A. Salehi was born in Kazemain, Iraq, on December 22, 1956. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1980 and 1984, respectively. From 1981 to 1984, he was a full-time Research Assistant at Communication Science Institute at USC, where he was engaged in research in the area of spread spectrum systems. From 1984 to 1993, he was a Member of Technical Staff of the Applied Research Area, Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), Morristown, NJ. From February to May 1990, he was with the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, as a Visiting Research Scientist conducting research on optical multiple-access networks. He was an Associate Professor from 1997 to 2003 and is currently a Full Professor with the Electrical Engineering (EE) Department, Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Head of Mobile Communications Systems Group and Codirector of Advanced and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Laboratory at Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC), Tehran, conducting research in the area of advance CDMA techniques for optical and radio communications systems. From 2003 to 2006 he was the director of National Center of Excellence in Communications Science at the EE department of SUT.