Bobak Nazer

Bobak Nazer is an associate professor of engineering (ECE, SE), distinguished faculty fellow of the College of Engineering, and CISE faculty affiliate. His broad research interests include information theory, communications, signal processing, and neuroscience.

Professor Nazer completed his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he received the M.S. degree in 2005 and the Ph.D degree in 2009, both in electrical engineering. Prior to this, he was an undergraduate at Rice University where he received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2003. From 2009 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Nazer is recognized for teaching excellence; he received the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology (2024) and the BU ECE Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (2018).  His accolades also include the BU ECE Faculty Service Award (2017), the Dean’s Catalyst Award from the BU College of Engineering (2017, 2011), IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award (2013), the NSF CAREER Award (2013), and the Eli Jury Award from the UC Berkeley EECS Department (2009). He was the General Chair for the IEEE 2019 North American School of Information Theory and was one of the co-organizers for the Spring 2016 Thematic Program at the Institut Henri Poincaré on the Nexus of Information and Computation Theories.

Bobak Nazer received the B.S.E.E. degree from Rice University, Houston, TX, in 2003, the M.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 2005, and the PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 2009, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University, Boston, MA. From 2009 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. His research interests are in information theory, communications, and signal processing, with a focus on developing new techniques for distributed, reliable computation over networks. For his dissertation research, he received the Eli Jury Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC – Berkeley. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Beta Kappa.