Mehdi Letafati

Mehdi Letafati received his B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He is currently a doctoral researcher at the center for wireless communications, University of Oulu, Finland. He was a program attendee at Cornell, Maryland, Max-Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School, Saarbruecken, Germany, in August 2020. His research interests include both the theoretical and practical aspects of learning-based communication security, privacy in data science, and secure digital healthcare. He is also interested in the intersection of deep learning and information theory. He was honored to be ranked 4th among all participants in the Nationwide University Entrance Exam in 2015, and since then he has been a recipient of Iran's National Elite Foundation's scholarships. He was a recipient of the Exceptional Talent for outstanding performance during his undergraduate studies. Mehdi serves as a peer reviewer for top IEEE journals, including the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.