Yasamin Mostofi

Yasamin Mostofi
Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
(505) 277-5538
ymostofi@ece.unm.edu
faculty website

Degrees:
PhD Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004 MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1999 BS Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1997

Yasamin Mostofi earned her PhD degree in communication systems and conducted post-doctoral research in control and dynamical systems. This cross-disciplinary background gives her research a unique perspective, as her current work lies at the intersection of the two areas of communications and decision making/control.

Dr. Mostofi and her colleague, Mechanical Engineering Professor Herbert Tanner, have recently been awarded a five-year grant from the Army Research Lab as part of a multi-university research project led by the University of Pennsylvania. As part of this effort, Dr. Mostofi will work on decision making and control strategies for mobile networks operating in harsh environments in terms of communication and sensing.

She is also a co-PI on a recent grant from the Detection Threat Reduction Agency that is a collaborative effort with Professor Majeed Hayat, Professor Patrick Bridges and Dr. David Dietz.

Her work includes collaborative information processing in multi-agent mobile networks; network consensus; control over wireless links; network resource allocation; cross-layer designs; and development of decentralized solutions. Her research lab, Cooperative Network Lab, currently has six graduate students, and she teaches courses in wireless communications and networked control systems.

Dr. Mostofi’s industry experience includes summer internships at Bell Labs in 1999 and at National Semiconductor in 2001. She was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech in 2004-06 and has published more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

A recipient of the Bellcore Fellow-Advisor Award at Stanford, she is a member of IEEE and an elected member of Sigma Xi.

Selected Publications:
• Y. Mostofi, “Binary Consensus with Gaussian Communication Noise: A Probabilistic Approach,” Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2007 • Y. Mostofi, “Communication-Aware Motion Planning in Fading Environments,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2008 • Y. Mostofi and R. Murray, “To Drop or Not to Drop: Design Principles for Kalman Filtering over Wireless Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear 2008 • Y. Mostofi and D. Cox, “ICI Mitigation for Pilot-aided OFDM Mobile Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 4, Number 2, March 2005