CV

Education

• PhD of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA. (2021 - Present)
  • Advisor: Professor Mary Wootters
• Master of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA. (2021 - 2023)
  • Advisor: Professor Mary Wootters
• BSc Computer Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. (2017 - 2021)

Research Projects

• Small Memory Interactive Communication, Stanford University. (August 2022 - Present)
  • Supervisors: Mary Wootters, Bernhard Haeupler
  • Investigation on existence of an algorithm simulating interactive protocols under adversarial communication using logarithmic size memory.
• Polar Coded Computing, Stanford University. (ISIT2022) (September 2021 - June 2022)
  • Supervisor: Professor Marco Mondelli
  • Study on average execution time of polar coded distributed computing systems and its relation to the scaling exponent of polar codes.
• Reed-Muller Codes, Institute of Science and Technology Austria. (ISIT 2021) (February 2020 - August 2021)
  • Supervisor: Professor Marco Mondelli
  • Design of decoding algorithm for Reed-Muller codes based on RPA decoding with a reduced computational budget.
• Embedded Systems and Fault Protection, Ruhr University of Bochum. (July 2019 - August 2019)
  • Supervisor: Professor Amir Moradi
  • Protection measures against single-bit faults on ARMv6m architecture.

Publications

Sparse Multi-Decoder Recursive Projection Aggregation for Reed-Muller Codes

D. Fathollahi, N. Farsad, S. A. Hashemi and M. Mondelli, "Sparse Multi-Decoder Recursive Projection Aggregation for Reed-Muller Codes," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Melbourne, Australia, 2021, pp. 1082-1087, doi: 10.1109/ISIT45174.2021.9517887

Polar Coded Computing: The Role of the Scaling Exponent

D. Fathollahi and M. Mondelli, "Polar Coded Computing: The Role of the Scaling Exponent," 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022, pp. 2154-2159, doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712

Improved Construction of Robust Gray Code

Robust Gray Codes Approaching the Optimal Rate

Interactive Coding with Small Memory and Improved Rate

Talks

• Speaker, The Third IPM Biennial Combinatorics and Computing Conference. (2019)
• Speaker, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT’21). (2021)
• Speaker, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT’22). (2022)

Teaching

• Farzanegan 1 highschool, Tehran, Iran. (2017-2019)

  Teaching algorithm design and problem-solving for national informatics olympiad.

• Salam 1 highschool, Tehran, Iran. (2018-2019)

  Problem-solving classes for national informatics olympiad.