Awards & Recognition
★IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2012) - one of most prestigious IEEE awards
★2017 Mustafa Prize ($500,000) - major international award for Information Theory
★IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2007)
★IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award (2002, 2008)
★ISSCC Jan van Vessem Award (2014) for Outstanding European Paper
★Listed in 'The Muslim 500' influential list
Notable Facts
→Co-founder & former CEO of Kandou Bus (now Kandou AI), transitioned to CTO in 2025
→Company has raised over $130M from top-tier VCs including Bessemer Venture Partners
→Inventor of Raptor Codes - standardized by 3GPP, DVB, IPTV and other major standards
→Former Chief Scientist at Digital Fountain (acquired by Qualcomm for his technology)
→IEEE Fellow with 150+ published papers and 200+ patents
→Professor Emeritus at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
→Born in Iran (1964), educated in Germany, based in Switzerland