Mina Sartipi
Education:  
2003-2006 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Minor: Mathematics
PhD Advisor: Dr. Faramarz Fekri
Thesis Title: Modern Error Control Codes and Applications to Distributed Source Coding
   
2001-2003 M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Minor: Mathematics
   
1996-2000 B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Senior Project: Designed an 8-channel digital audio console
   
Experience:  
2007-present University of Tennessee at Chattanooga College of Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chattanooga, TN
Assistant Professor
 
  • Built a wireless sensor network lab.
  • Proposed TinyTermite- a secure and scalable routing algorithm.
  • Implemented TinyTermite on TinyOS-based Intel Mote2.
2006-2007 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga College of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering , Chattanooga, TN
Assistant Professor
 
  • Built a communication lab for undergraduate and graduate courses in telecommunication areas.
  • Implemented an energy-efficient multicast algorithm on TinyOS-based Intel Mote2.
2002-2006 Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Research Assistant
 
  • Introduced an energy-efficient and reliable multicasting protocol for wireless sensor networks
  • Proposed a new design criteria for data compression in wireless sensor network
  • Designed two-dimensional codes by two-dimensional wavelet transform
  • Generated new algebraic finite-length low-density parity check (LDPC) codes
  • Proposed a new scheme for generating rate-adaptive codes by wavelet transform
Fall 2001 Georgia Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering Department, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Teaching Assistant
 
  • Taught Circuits and Systems
2000-2001 Jahad Daneshgahy Sharif Technology, Tehran, Iran
Design Engineer
 
  • Contributed in design of the controller system for a large oil company
Summer 1999 Tehran Hospital Research Center, Tehran, Iran
Researcher
 
  • Contributed in design of a fetal heart detector
   
Research Activities:
  Research Area: Communication and Network Security, Information Processing in Wireless and Sensor Networks, Coding and Information Theory, Communication and Signal Processing
 
  • Energy-Efficient and Rate-Optimal Multicast/Broadcast Technique
  • Secure Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  • Watermarking and Information Hiding using Channel Coding
  • TinyID: an Advanced Warehouse Management System using Wireless Networks
  • Implementing Routing and Multicasting algorithms in Hardware
   

Publications:

 
 

Journal Papers:
M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Lossy Distributed Source Coding using LDPC,” Submitted to IEEE Communications Letters, January 2008, revised and resubmitted March 2008.

M. Sartipi, B. N. Vellambi R, N. Rahnavard, F. Fekri,” DSCM: An Energy Efficient Multicast Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Distributed Source Coding,“ Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, November 2007.

M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Distributed Source Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks using Rate-Compatible LDPC Codes: The Entire Slepian-Wolf Rate Region,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, March 2008.

M. Sartipi, F. Delgosha, F. Fekri, “Two-Dimensional Half-Rate Codes Using two-Variable Finite-Field Filter Banks,’’ IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 55, Issue 12, pp. 5846-5853, December 2007.

F. Delgosha, M. Sartipi, and F. Fekri, “Construction of Two-dimensional Paraunitary Filter Banks over Fields of Characteristic Two and their Connections to Error-Control Coding,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I.

F. Fekri, M. Sartipi, R. M. Mersereau, R. W. Schafer, “Convolutional Codes Using Finite-Field Wavelets; Time-Varying Codes and more,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 53, Issue 5, pp.1881-1896 May 2005.

   
  Invited Papers:
 

M. Sartipi and F. Fekri, " Distributed Source Coding using LDPC Codes: Lossy and Lossless Cases with Unknown Correlation Parameter," Forty-Third Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, October 2005.

 F. Fekri, F. Delgosha , M. Sartipi, “Results on Finite-Field Wavelets and Their Applications to Error Correcting Codes,” American Mathematical Society special meeting on codes and applications, October 2004

   
  Conferences:
 

M. Sartipi, B. N. Vellambi R, N. Rahnavard, F. Fekri,” DSCM: An Energy Efficient Multicast Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Distributed Source Coding,“ Proc. of IEEE Infocom , April 2008.

M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Results on Rateless Codes,’’ to be submitted to International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks , spring 2008.

M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Distributed Source Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks Using LDPC Coding: a Non-Uniform Framework,’’ Proc. ofIEEE Data Compression Conference, pp. 477 – 477, March 2005.

M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Distributed Source Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks Using LDPC coding: The entire Slepian-Wolf Rate Region,’’ Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 1939-1944, March 2005.

M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Source and Channel Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks Using LDPC Codes,’’ Proc. of IEEE Communications Society Conf. on Sensor Communications and Networks, pp. 309-316, October 2004.

M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Two-Dimensional Error Correcting Codes Using Finite-Field Wavelets,’’ Proc. of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, pp. 22-29, October 2004.

M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Low-Density Parity-Check Codes Based on Cyclotomic Cosets and Their Extension by Latin-Square Matrices,’’ Proc. of Forty-First Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, October 2003.

   
Courses Taught:  
 
  • EGEE 503 Signal Processing
  • ENGR 270 Electrical Circuits II
  • ENGR 271 Electrical Circuits I Laboratory
  • ENEE 475 Communications
  • EGEE 511 Communication II
Skills:  
 
  • Computer platform: MS-DOS, Windows, TinyOS
  • Computer Language: nesC, C, Pascal, Basic, 80X86, Assembly, LaTeX
  • Engineering Software: Matlab, Mathematica, PSpice, Orcad, MS-Office
  • Working Experience: TMS320C25
Activities:  
 
  • Reviewer of IEEE Transaction of Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications Letter, and several IEEE Conferences.
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member