Ali Nazari received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2005. After that, he started his graduate study in 2005, at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is now working toward his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering. His research interests is in Shannon Theory, Multi user Information theory, Source coding and channel coding. He is a winner of IEEE information Theory Society Best Student Paper Award at ISIT 2009.