Hossein Asghari, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California

Early Career Representative International Union of Radio Science Google scholar citation indices: Number of citations: 648, h-index: 17, i10-index:23 Contact information: Address : Doolan 208, 1 Loyola Marymount University Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Cell: (310) 437-3204, Office: (310) 338-5101 Email: masghari@lmu.edu

Education and Research:

Ø Post-doctoral researcher, University of California, Los Angeles, Sep. 2011-Aug. 2015.

v Fields of research: Photonic-assisted data convertors, Signal processing for Big Data, Ul-trafast spectroscopy, Digital image and signal compression and processing, Pattern recognition.

Ø Ph.D. degree in Photonics from University of Québec-INRS, Montreal, Canada, 2006-2011.

v Thesis title: Proposal, design, demonstration and characterization of all-fiber enabling de-vices for ultrafast optical signal processing.

v Fields of study: Photonic signal processing, Optical communications, Optical computing, Optical signal characterization, Light propagation in periodic structures including fiber Bragg gratings.

v Ph.D. Thesis rated exceptional. Ø M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran,

2004-2006.

v Thesis title: Space-time codes in wireless optical CDMA communication systems.

v Fields of study: Optical communications, Wireless communications, Space-time coding.

v M.Sc. Thesis rated 19.75 out of 20.

Ø B.Sc. degree in Electronics from Khaje Nasir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2000-2004.

v Thesis title: Study of FM transmitter components and implementation of a 100 MHz FM transmitter for transmitting the heart sounds in hospitals.

v Fields of study: Electronic components, electrical circuits, microprocessors.

v B.Sc. Thesis rated 20 out of 20.

Research interests: Ø Photonic/microwave signal processing, optics in biomedical applications (cancer cell detec-

tion, ultrafast microscopy, etc), optical telecommunications, photonic integrated circuits, sili-con photonics, photonic assisted wideband data conversion, and real-time spectroscopy.

Ø Dealing with big data in real-time high-throughput instruments, image/video processing, transmission and compression, Gigapixel imaging, edge detection, time/space-bandwidth product compression, pattern recognition in big data analysis.

Professional experiences: Ø Assistant Professor, department of electrical engineering and computer science, Loyola

Marymount University, Los Angeles, Aug. 2107-present.

Ø Early Career Representative, International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Commission D (Electronics and Photonics), Aug. 2017-present.

Ø Visiting Assistant Professor, department of electrical engineering and computer science, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Aug. 2015-Aug 2017.

Ø Post-doctoral Researcher, department of electrical engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Oct. 2011-Aug. 2015.

Ø Chair of Los Angeles Chapter of IEEE Photonics Society, April 2015-Aug. 2017.

Ø President of the Journal Club, UCLA, 2012-2015.

Ø Board of directors of student association, University of Québec-INRS, Canada, 2009. Conference-related experiences:

Ø Co-chair and session chair, International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Commis-sion D (Electronics and Photonics), session on photonic based real-time instruments, Canary Islands, Spain, May 2018.

Ø Co-chair and session chair, International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Commis-sion D (Electronics and Photonics), session on optical telecommunications, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 2017.

Ø Program committee member of “2018 International Conference On Electrical Engineering, Control And Robotics”, Chengdu, China, Jan 2018.

Ø Program committee member of the conference on “High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy II”, SPIE Photonics West/BIOS 2017, San Francisco, USA, February 2017.

Ø Program committee member of the sub-conference “Real-time photonics measurements, da-ta management and processing”, SPIE Photonics Asia 2016, Beijing, China, October 2016.

Ø Member of international advisory committee of the Collaborative Conference on Signal Processing, CCSP 2016, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2016.

Ø Session chair, 8th annual undergraduate research symposium, Loyola Marymount Universi-ty, March 2016.

Ø Program committee member of the special track on “Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research in Computing Systems (STETIRCS)”, 13th International Conference on Infor-mation Technology- New Generations (ITNG 2016), Las Vegas, USA, April 2016.

Ø Co-organizer and program committee member of the conference on “Real-time Measure-ments, Rogue Events, and Emerging Applications”, SPIE Photonics West/OPTO 2016, San Francisco, USA, February 2016.

Ø Program committee member of the conference on “Real-time optical bioinstrumentation and big data management”, SPIE Photonics West/BIOS 2016, San Francisco, USA, February 2016.

Ø Technical program committee member of the International Conference on Optical Commu-nications and Networks 2015 (ICOCN2015), Nanjing, China, July 2015.

Ø Organizer and general co-chair of the symposium on “Information processing for Big Data”, IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (IEEE GlobalSIP 2014), At-lanta, USA, December 2014.

Ø Organizer and co-chair of Annual Danish-Californian photonic workshop in connection with Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2015) supported by Danish Innovation Cen-ter from Denmark, Los Angeles, March 2015.

Ø Organizer and general co-chair of the sub-conference “Real-time photonics measurements, data management and processing”, SPIE Photonics Asia 2014, Beijing, China, October 2014.

Ø Organizer and general co-chair of the symposium on “Real-time high-speed measurements for communication, biomedical, and industrial applications”, Progress In Electromagnetics Re-search Symposium (35th PIERS 2014), Guangzhou, China, August 2014.

Ø Technical program committee of the “2015 World Symposium on Computer Applications & Research”, WSCAR 2015, Rome, Italy.

Ø Technical program committee of the “Second International Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet”, VisionNet’2015, Kochi, India.

Ø Technical program committee of the “International Conference on Computer Vision & Im-age Analysis”, ICCVIA 2015, Sousse, Tunisia.

Ø Technical program committee of the “International conference on computer applications and aided diagnosis”, ICCAAD 2014, Algiers, Algeria.

Ø Chairing the session Optical Sensing, SPIE Photonics Asia 2014, Beijing, China.

Ø Chairing two sessions at IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Infor-mation Technology (13th IEEE ISSPIT 2013), Athens, Greece.

Ø Reviewer for Optical society of America (OSA) Student Chapter Excellence Awards, 2012.

University-related experiences:

Ø Volunteered to be a mentor for First To Go (FTG) program supporting students who identify as “first-generation college”, LMU 2017.

Ø Serving as EECS representative in Freshmen Advising Committee, Fall 2017-present.

Ø Serving as advisor for freshman students, Fall 2017.

Ø Chair of the search committee for the manager of laboratory facilities/electrical engi-neering at Loyola Marymount University, May 2017.

Ø Engineering advisory team for planning and design of Engineering Design Center, Loy-ola Marymount University, November 2016.

Ø Member of faculty committee to apply rubrics to the assessment of LMU’s Teamwork Skills and Leadership Skills Undergraduate Learning Outcomes, Loyola Marymount Uni-versity, May 2016.

Ø Library committee representative, department of electrical engineering and computer science, Loyola Marymount University, Sep 2016-current.

Teaching-related experiences:

Ø Graduate Seminar, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2016.

Ø Senior Capstone project, Loyola Marymount University, Spring 2016, Spring 2017.

Ø Design Methodology, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017.

Ø Embedded Systems, independent studies, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2016.

Ø Networks on Chip, independent studies, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2016.

Ø Optical Engineering, Loyola Marymount University, Spring 2016, Spring 2017.

Ø Electronics I, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2016.

Ø Electronics II, Loyola Marymount University, Spring 2017.

Ø Electrical Circuits, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2015, Fall 2016.

Ø Algorithms and Applications, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017.

Ø Introduction to Engineering, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Fall 2015, Fall 2017.

Ø Communications circuits Lab, Sharif University, 2005&2006.

Ø Electrical circuits, Tolooe Andishe institute, Tehran, Iran, 2005.

Ø Engineering Statistics and Probability, Tolooe Andishe institute, Tehran, Iran, 2006.

Ø MATLAB programming –Khaje Nasir University, Tehran, Iran, 2003.

Ø Switching Systems, Teacher assistant, Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, 2006.

Ø Digital Signal Processing, Teacher assistant, Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, 2006.

Ø Communications Circuits, Teacher assistant, Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, 2005&2006.

University grants:

Ø New faculty start-up funding, 140,000 USD, Aug 2017.

Ø Graduate research assistantship grant, 12,400 USD, Sep 2017-May 2018.

Ø LMU crowdfunding, raised 7,551 USD, April 2017.

Ø Graduate research assistantship grant, 6,200 USD, Oct 2016-May 2017.

Supervising experiences:

Ø Graduate student for the project “Photonic-based wideband analog to digital converter”, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Sep. 2017-May 2018.

Ø Supervising 14 Undergraduate students for their senior projects, Loyola Marymount Universi-ty, Los Angeles, Sep. 2017-present.

Ø Supervising Junior student for 2017 LMU Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), 2017.

Ø Supervising 3 Graduate students for their graduate capstone projects, Loyola Marymount Uni-versity, Los Angeles, Aug. 2016-May 2017.

Ø Supervising 15 Undergraduate students for their senior projects, Loyola Marymount Universi-ty, Los Angeles, Aug. 2016-May 2017.

Ø Supervising 25 Undergraduate students for their senior projects, Loyola Marymount Universi-ty, Los Angeles, Aug. 2015-May 2016.

Ø Graduate student for the project “feeling of flying”, Loyola Marymount University, Los Ange-les, Oct. 2016-May 2017.

Ø Senior Undergraduate biology student, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Aug. 2015- May 2016.

Ø Sophomore Undergraduate engineering physics student (honor list program), Loyola Mary-mount University, Los Angeles, Aug. 2015-Dec 2015.

Ø 6 PhD students in Electrical engineering at UCLA, 2013-2014.

Ø 5 Undergraduate students in Electrical engineering at UCLA, 2013.

Ø 4 Graduate and Undergraduate students in Electrical engineering at INRS defended in 2010-2011.

Academic honors, recognitions and awards:

ü Accepted for the LMU’s Grant Writing Academy, October 2017.

ü The senior project “Augmented reality in the classroom for visually impaired students,” su-pervised by Dr. Asghari was highlighted in the Loyola Marymount University, College of Engi-neering and Science, April 2016.

ü Recipient of UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research (and 5,000 dollar prize), awarded annually to six post-doctoral researchers among 1,167 post-docs in all the departments to recognize their important contributions to UCLA's research mission, USA, May 2014.

ü Best paper award for the work “Image compression using the anamorphic transform” at IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (IEEE ISSPIT 2013), Athens, Greece.

ü Recognized by Optical Society of America (OSA) for significant contributions to the optical society as a reviewer, 2013.

ü Recipient of award of excellence from the director general of University of Quebec-INRS (and 1,000 $ prize), the most prestigious prize from INRS awarded annually to one PhD graduate among all departments to recognize excellence of his academic records, Canada, 2012.

ü Included in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Editions of Marquis Who's Who in America, which en-deavors to profile the leaders of American society since 1899, USA, 2012-2014.

ü Listed as honorary scientific director of University of Quebec-INRS for high quality of scien-tific and research contributions in PhD thesis, Canada, 2011.

ü Awarded international exposure prize from University of Quebec-INRS for the contributions to the international reputation of INRS, Canada, 2011.

ü Graduated from PhD degree with "exceptional" rated PhD thesis, Canada, 2011.

ü Awarded 2011-2013 NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) from Government of Canada (80,000$ for two years), Canada, 2011.

ü Selected as a member of "Elite National Foundation" due to high-level contributions to science and technology and top academic records, Tehran 2011.

ü Cited for state-of-the-art contributions in “ultrafast optical signal characterization”, in the in-ternational magazine “Laser Focus World”, USA, 2011.

ü Awarded 2011-2013 FQRNT Post-Doctoral Fellowship (le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies) from Québec Government (70,000$ for two years), Canada, 2011.

ü Selected for prestigious international Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship by University of Otta-wa, Canada, 2010.

ü Awarded 2008 FQRNT scholarship (le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies) from Québec government for whole PhD degree (45,300$ for two years), Canada, 2008.

ü Receipt of 2009 IEEE Photonic society (IEEE/LEOS) student travel grant (1,600$), 2009.

ü Chosen for “passionate students at University of Quebec-INRS-EMT” section for the maga-zine “Planète INRS”, Canada, 2009.

ü Awarded Tuition Fee waiver for MS and PhD degrees for international students from INRS-EMT, Canada, 2006 and 2007 respectively.

ü Chosen as a member of NODET (National Organization for Developing Exceptional Talents) according to entrance exam’s grade for M.Sc. degree in Iran, 2004.

ü 15th

Rank among more than 30,000 participants in the nationwide universities entrance exam for M.Sc. degree in Iran, 2004.

ü 78th

Rank among more than 550,000 participants in the nationwide Azad university entrance exam for B.Sc. degree, Iran, 2000.

Invited seminar talks:

v Roguescope: Single-shot high-throughput spectroscopy at billion frames per second, workshop on "Big data trends shaping the future of photonics", SPIE Defense-Commercial Sensing 2017 Conference, April 2017.

v Physics-inspired signal processing, 2016 IEEE Summer Topical Meeting on Photonic Hardware Accelerators and Neuro-inspired Computing, Newport Beach, California, July 2016.

v Optically-inspired algorithms, 8th Calfironia-Danish Photonic Workshop, UCLA, March 2016.

v Photonic real-time instruments, 14th IEEE/International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (IEEE/ICOCN 2015), Nanjing, China, 2015.

v Optical data compression, Annual Danish-Californian photonic workshop in connection with Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2015), Los Angeles, March 2015.

v Anamorphic stretch transform for analog and digital compression of Big Data, SPIE Optics+Photonics 2014, San Diego, August 2014.

v Time-frequency manipulation in real-time instruments, 33th PIERS 2014, keynote speaker, Guangzhou, August 2014.

v Image compression using the anamorphic stretch transform, UCLA research forum, Los Angeles, March 2014.

v Photonic signal processing and its applications, IEEE Photonics Society seminar series, Los Angeles, May 2013.

v Ultrafast optical signal processing, University of Laval, Quebec city, Canada, March 2013.

v Ultrafast optical signal processing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, February 2013.

v All-fiber enabling devices for ultrafast optical signal processing, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, Oc-tober 2012.

v All-fiber enabling devices for ultrafast optical signal processing, John Hopkins University, Bal-timore USA, May 2011.

Journal paper reviews: Ø Nature. Ø Nature Photonics. Ø Nature Physics. Ø Optics Express. Ø Optics Letters. Ø IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology. Ø Journal of the Optical Society of America B. Ø IEEE Photonics Journal. Ø Photonics Technology Letters. Ø Journal of Optics & Laser Technology (Elsevier). Ø International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. Ø International Journal of Nanomedicine.

Publications:

Book:

v H. Asghari, "Ultrafast optical signal processing: devices and techniques", Sponsored and pub-lished by Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), Saarbrucken, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-8484-3654-5, 2012.

Articles in peer-reviewed international journals:

1. M. Suthar, H. Asghari and A. Mahjoubfar, and B. Jalali, “Physics-based Computational Imaging for feature detection and resolution enhancement in visually impaired images”, PHOTOPTICS 2017.

2. T. Ilovitsh, B. Jalali, H. Asghari, and Z. Zalevsky, “Phase stretch transform for super-resolution localization microscopy,” Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 7, Issue 10, pp. 4198-4209 (2016).

3. H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Edge detection in digital images using dispersive phase stretch,” Inter-national Journal of Biomedical Imaging, Vol. 2015, Article ID 687819, pp. 1-6 (2015).

4. H. Gao, H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Experimental Demonstration of Time-Bandwidth Expansion using Anamorphic Stretch Transform,” IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 7, 5900310, pp. 1-10, (2015).

5. J. Chan, A. Mahjoubfar, H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Reconstruction in time-bandwidth compres-sion systems,” Applied Physics Letters Journal, Vol. 105, 221105 (2014).

6. B. Jalali, J. Chan, and H. Asghari, “Time bandwidth engineering,” Inaugural issue of OSA’s high-impact journal Optica, Vol. 1, pp. 23- 31 (2014), INVITED.

7. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, “Discrete anamorphic transform for image compression,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 21, pp. 829-833 (2014).

8. P. Devore, B. Buckley, H. Asghari, D. Solli and B. Jalali, “Coherent time-stretch transform for near-field spectroscopy,” IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, 3300107, pp. 1-7 (2014).

9. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, “Warped time lens in temporal imaging for optical real-time data com-pression,” Springer publishing group, Chinese Science Bulletin journal, ISSN: 1861-9541, DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0352-0, pp. 1-6 (2014), INVITED.

10. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, “Experimental demonstration of optical real-time data compression,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, 111101, pp. 1-4 (2014).

11. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, “Anamorphic transformation and its application to time-bandwidth compression,” Applied Optics, Vol. 52, pp. 6735-6743 (2013).

12. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, “Stereopsis-inspired time-stretched amplified real-time spectrometer (STARS)”, IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 4, pp. 1693-1701 (2012), INVITED.

13. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Self-referenced temporal phase reconstruction from intensity meas-urements using causality arguments in linear optical filters”, Optics Letters, Vol. 37, pp. 3582-3584 (2012).

14. H. Asghari, Y. Park, and J. Azaña, “Photonic temporal integration of broadband intensity wave-forms over long operation time windows”, Optics Letters, Vol. 36, pp. 3557-3559 (2011).

15. R. Ashrafi, H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Ultrafast optical arbitrary-order differentiators based on apodized long period gratings,” IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 3, pp. 353-364 (2011).

16. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Photonic integrator-based optical memory unit,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 23, pp. 209-211 (2011), highlighted in Laser Focus World magazine 2010.

17. H. Asghari, Y. Park, and J. Azaña, “New design for photonic temporal integration with combined high processing speed and long operation time window,” Optics Express, Vol. 19, pp. 425-435 (2011), highlighted in Laser Focus World magazine 2010.

18. Y. Park, H. Asghari, R. Helsten, and J. Azaña, “Implementation of broadband Microwave arbi-trary-order time differential operators using a reconfigurable incoherent photonic processor,” IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 2, pp. 1040-1050 (2010).

19. H. Asghari, Y. Park, and J. Azaña, “Complex-field measurement of ultrafast dynamic optical waveforms based on real-time spectral interferometry,” Optics Express, Vol. 18, pp. 16526-16538 (2010), highlighted in Laser Focus World magazine 2011.

20. H. Asghari, C. Wang, J. Yao, and J. Azaña, “High-order passive photonic temporal integrators,” Optics Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 1191-1193 (2010).

21. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “On the design of efficient and accurate arbitrary-order temporal optical integrators using fiber Bragg gratings,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 27, pp. 3888-3895 (2009).

22. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “All-optical Hilbert transformer based on a single phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating: design and analysis,” Optics Letters, Vol. 34, pp. 334-336 (2009).

23. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Proposal and analysis of a reconfigurable pulse shaping technique based on multi-arm optical differentiators,” Optics Communications, Vol. 281, Issue 18, 15, pp. 4581-4588 (2008).

24. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “All-optical high-order temporal integrators based on multiple-phase-shifted Bragg gratings,” Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 15, pp. 11459-11469 (2008).

25. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Proposal for arbitrary-order temporal integration of ultrafast optical signals using a single uniform-period fiber Bragg grating,” Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 13, pp. 1548-1550 (2008).

26. Y. Park, H. Asghari, T.-J. Ahn, and J. Azaña, “Transform-limited picosecond pulse shaping based on temporal coherence synthesization,” Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 15, pp. 9584-9599 (2007).

Articles in peer-reviewed international conferences:

27. M. Suzuki, O. Boyraz, H. Asghari, P. Trinh, H. Kuroda, B. Jalali, “Observing Soliton Explosion in Unstable Mode Locked Yb Fiber Laser with Time Stretch Spectroscopy”, SPIE Photonic West 2018, San Francisco, USA, Feb. 2018.

28. M. Fung, H. Asghari, K.S. Tsang, Victor Ho, K. L.F. Lui, and R. Man, and S. T. Chu, “The Real-time Imaging System by Broadband Supercontinuum Using A Time-stretched Technology”, 2018 International Conference On Electrical Engineering, Control And Robotics, Chengdu, China, Jan 2018.

29. T. Makino, H. Furukawa1, H. Asghari, P. Trinh, B. Jalali, X. Wang, T. Kobayashi, W. Sing Man, K. Shing Tsang, N. Wada, “High resolution single-shot time stretch spectroscopy with Wave-length demultiplexer at one Billion frames per second,” CLEO 2017, paper: STu4I.6.

30. B. Jalali, and H. Asghari, “Optics-Inspired Computing,” PHOTOPTICS 2017, paper# 94, Porto, Portugal, Feb. 2017.

31. B. Jalali, J. C. K. Chan, A. Mahjoubfar, D. R. Solli, and H. Asghari, “Analog gearbox for real-time metrology,” conference on Real-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Single-shot Applications II, part of SPIE LASE, Photonic West 2017, San Francisco, USA, INVITED.

32. H. Asghari, P. Trinh, and B. Jalali, “Roguescope: Single-shot high-throughput spectroscopy at Billion frames per second,” conference on Real-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Sin-gle-shot Applications II, part of SPIE LASE, Photonic West 2017, San Francisco, USA, INVITED.

33. T. Makino, H. Furukawa1, H. Asghari, P. Trinh, B. Jalali, X. Wang, T. Kobayashi, W. Sing Man, K. Shing Tsang, N. Wada, “Billion frames per second spectrum measurement for high-repetition-rate optical pulses based on time stretching technique,” conference on Real-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Single-shot Applications II, part of SPIE LASE, Photonic West 2017, San Francisco, USA, INVITED.

34. H. Asghari, P. Trinh, and B. Jalali, “Roguescope: Single-shot high-throughput spectroscopy at Billion frames per second,” conference on Real-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Sin-gle-shot Applications II, part of SPIE LASE, Photonic West 2017, San Francisco, USA.

35. B. Jalali, and H. Asghari, “Physics-inspired image analytics,” session on applications of digital image processing, SPIE Optics-Photonics 2016, San Diego, USA, INVITED.

36. H. Asghari, O. Hadar, and B. Jalali, “Application of phase stretch transform to plate license iden-tification under blur and noise conditions,” session on applications of digital image processing, SPIE Optics-Photonics 2016, San Diego, USA.

37. H. Asghari, Paul Trinh, and B. Jalali, “Roguescope: Real-time high-throughput spectroscopy at 100 Million frames per second”, SPIE Photonics West, Real-time Measurements, Rogue Events, and Emerging Applications Conference, Accepted, San Francisco, 2016.

38. B. Jalali, A. Mahjoubfar, D. Solli, H. Asghari, Y. Jiang, C. L. Chen, “Silicon Photonics Coprocessors for Energy Efficient Computing,” 2nd International Conference on Opto-Electronics and Applied Optics (IEM OPTRONIX), OCT 2015, Vancouver, Canada, INVITED.

39. C. V. Ilioudis, C. Clemente, H. Asghari, B. Jalali, and J. Soraghan, “Edge detection in SAR im-ages using Dispersive Phase Stretch Transform,” 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing, London, 2015.

40. A. Mahjoubfar, J. Chan, H. Asghari, B. Jalali, “Sparsity and self-adaptivity in anamorphic stretch transform”, 49th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), paper 1088, 2015.

41. H. Park, H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Dispersion engineering employing curved space mapping and chromo-modal excitation,” paper: JTh2A.34, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2015).

42. H. Gao, H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Experimental demonstration of anamorphic arbitrary wave-form generation,” paper: STh4F.3, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2015).

43. H. Gao, H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Complete Dispersive Fourier Transform in near-field for sin-gle-shot spectroscopy,” paper:W3I.2, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2015).

44. H. Gao, H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Time-bandwidth engineering for arbitrary waveform genera-tion,” IEEE Global Signal and Information Processing Symposium (GlobalSIP 2014), paper: WsBD-P.8, Atlanta, December 2014.

45. H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Physics-inspired image edge detection,” IEEE Global Signal and In-formation Processing Symposium (GlobalSIP 2014), paper: WdBD-L.1, Atlanta, December 2014.

46. H. Asghari, C. Clemente, B. Jalali, and J. Soraghan, “Synthetic aperture radar image compression using discrete anamorphic stretch transform,” IEEE Global Signal and Information Processing Symposium (GlobalSIP 2014), paper: WsBD-P.7, Atlanta, December 2014.

47. J. Chan, H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Performance of time bandwidth engineering systems,” IEEE Photonic Conference (IPC 2014), paper: MG1.4, San Diego, October 2014.

48. H. Yuan, H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Reducing the latency and improving the resolution of vector quantization with Anamorphic Stretch Transform,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar 2014), paper: TA8a2-3, Monterey, CA, Nov. 2014.

49. H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Self-adaptive stretch in anamorphic image compression,” IEEE Inter-national Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2014), paper: COM-P4.6, October 2014, Paris, France.

50. H. Asghari, J. Chan, and B. Jalali, “Time-frequency manipulation in real-time instruments,” Pro-gress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (35th PIERS 2014), Accepted, August 2014, Guangzhou, China, INVITED.

51. H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Big Data compression using anamorphic stretch transform,” ASE In-ternational Conference on Big Data Science and Computing 2014, May 2014, Stanford, USA.

52. J. Zhang, H. Asghari, J. Yao, and B. Jalali, “Time-bandwidth product expansion of microwave waveforms using Anamorphic Stretch Transform,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2014), paper: JTh2A.38, June 2014, San Jose, USA.

53. H. Asghari, and B. Jalali, “Anamorphic temporal imaging using a warped time lens,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2014), paper: STu3E.3, June 2014, San Jose, USA.

54. B. Jalali, and H. Asghari, “Anamorphic Stretch Transform for Analog and Digital Compression of Big Data,” Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization, SPIE Optics-Photonics 2014, pa-per: OP14O-63, August 2014, San Diego, USA, INVITED.

55. P. Devore, B. Buckley, H. Asghari, D. Solli and B. Jalali, “Near-field and complex-field time stretch transform,” SPIE Europe 2014, paper: 9141-62, April 2014, Brussels, Belgium, INVITED.

56. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, "Demonstration of analog time-bandwidth compression using anamor-phic stretch transform," Frontiers in Optics (FIO 2013), Paper: FW6A.2, Orlando, USA, POST-DEADLINE PAPER.

57. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, "Image compression using the feature-selective stretch transform," 13th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2013), Athens, Greece, won BEST PAPER AWARD.

58. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, "Anamorphic time stretch transform and its application to analog band-width compression," IEEE Global Signal and Information Processing Symposium (GlobalSIP 2013) paper: NSSIMb.PD.2, Austin, USA.

59. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, "Warped dispersive transform and its application to analog bandwidth compression," IEEE Photonic Conference (IPC 2013), paper TUG 1.1, Seattle, USA.

60. H. Asghari and B. Jalali, “Stereopsis-inspired time-stretched amplified real-time spectrometer (STARS)," IEEE Photonic Conference (IPC 2012), paper WCC.2, San Francisco, USA.

61. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Self-reference temporal phase reconstruction based on causality argu-ments in linear optical filters," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2012), paper CTu2A.8, San J., USA.

62. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Proposal of a reconfigurable ultrafast optical pulse shaping technique using multi-arm optical differentiators,” Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPP-Com 2011), paper SPWD4, Toronto, Canada.

63. H. Asghari, Y. Park and J. Azaña, “Photonic temporal integration of broadband microwave wave-forms over nanosecond time windows,” Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPP-Com 2011), paper SPWD1, Toronto, Canada.

64. R. Ashrafi, H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Fully optimized long period fiber grating designs for ultra-fast optical differentiation,”Signal Processing in Photonic Communications(SPPCom 2011), To-ronto, Canada. In this work I have supervised the PhD student Reza Ashrafi.

65. H. Asghari, Y. Park, and J. Azaña, “Intensity integrator with combined high processing speed and long operation time window,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2011), paper CThI2, Baltimore, USA.

66. R. Ashrafi, H. Asghari, and J. Azaña, “Optimized ultrafast optical arbitrary-order differentiators based on long-period gratings,” IEEE-Laser & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Annual Meeting 2010, paper ThU4, Denver, USA. In this work I have supervised the PhD student Reza Ashrafi.

67. H. Asghari, Y. Park, and J. Azaña, “Single-shot complex-field characterization of ultrafast optical waveforms with MHz measurement update rates," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2010), paper JThE80, San J., USA.

68. H. Asghari, Y. Park, and J. Azaña, “Demonstration of a photonic integrator-based loadable and erasable optical memory unit with picosecond switching times,” European Conference and Exhi-bition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2009), paper P1.18, Vienna, Austria.

69. H. Asghari, Y. Park, and J. Azaña, “Real-time spectral interferometry for single-shot complex-field linear characterization of sub-Nanosecond long ultrafast optical signals,” IEEE-Laser & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Annual Meeting 2009, paper TuO2, Antalya, Turkey.

70. H. Asghari, C. Wang, J. Yao, and J. Azaña, “Demonstration of FBG-based first and second-order photonic temporal integrators with optimized energetic efficiencies,” IEEE-Laser & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Annual Meeting 2009, paper TuK3, Antalya, Turkey.

71. Y. Park, H. Asghari, and J. Azaña, “Reconfigurable higher-order photonic intensity temporal dif-ferentiator,” IEEE-Laser & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Annual Meeting 2009, paper ThO2, Antalya, Turkey.

72. H. Asghari, Y. Park, and J. Azaña, “New concept for ultra-broadband photonic integrator with fundamentally unlimited operation time window,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

(CLEO 2009), paper CMQ4, Baltimore, USA.

73. H. Asghari and J. Azaña, “Single phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating as an all-optical Hilbert trans-former,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2009), paper JWA57, San Diego, USA.

74. H. Asghari, J. Azaña, “Multiple-Phase-Shifted Bragg Gratings as All-Optical High-Order Tem-poral Integrators,” IEEE-Laser & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Annual Meeting 2008, paper ME3, Newport Beach, USA.

Symposiums: 1. V. Mohanraj, L. Huang and H. Asghari, “Advanced road crack detection,” Engineering Design

Symposium, Loyola Marymount University, March 2017.

2. S. Santos, A. Lazo, and H. Asghari, “Implementing a Webcam for Eye Tracking and Computer Cursor Control,” 9th annual undergraduate research symposium, Loyola Marymount University, March 2017.

3. A. Weber, T. Jovanovich, and H. Asghari, “Improved Operational Amplifier to Boost the Output Current of an Arduino Microcontroller,” 9th annual undergraduate research symposium, Loyola Marymount University, March 2017.

4. H. Zhang, E. Fujioka, K. Ramirez, and H. Asghari, “Drone autonomous basketball,” 9th annual undergraduate research symposium, Loyola Marymount University, March 2017.

5. A. Hentrup, P. Roldan, D. Lu, and H. Asghari, “Wireless authentication of smart doors using RFID,” 8th annual undergraduate research symposium, Loyola Marymount University, March 2016.

6. S. Cunniff, P. Foster, and H. Asghari, “Programmable, inexpensive, visual aid system in the classroom using augmented reality,” 8th annual undergraduate research symposium, Loyola Marymount University, March 2016.

7. R. Dominguez, T. Melemai, P. Auger, and H. Asghari, “Describing, characterizing and mitigating strategies for potentially harmful hummingbird/micro-drone interactions,” 8th annual undergradu-ate research symposium, Loyola Marymount University, March 2016.

Press and media coverage: Ø “Doing Math with Light,” article related to the work, Anamorphic Stretch Transform, in Optics

and Photonic News (OPN) (Optical Society of America’s flagship magazine), Dec. 2014.

Ø “Tinkering with Time Aids Data Compression and Transfer” related to Anamorphic stretch transform for time bandwidth engineering, highlighted by Optical Society of America, July 2014.

Ø “Efficient digitization” related to work on the first experimental demonstration of optical real-time data compression, Research highlights in Nature Photonics, vol. 8, 423, June 2014.

Ø “The Anamorphic Stretch Transform, Putting a squeeze on Big Data,” Invited feature article on Big Data compression and cover story in Optics and Photonic News (OPN) (Optical Society of America’s flagship magazine), Feb. 2014.

Ø Work “Warped time lens in temporal imaging for optical real-time data compression,” Invited feature article on real-time instruments and cover story, Springer publishing group, Chinese Science Bulletin Journal, June 2014.

Ø Work “Anamorphic transformation and its application to time-bandwidth compression,” An-nounced by Optical Society of America as the third most downloaded paper in Applied Op-tics journal among all the papers published (since 1962), 2,200 hits in 3 months, Feb. 2014.

Ø “Warping compresses big data” Feature article in Photonics Spectra Magazine, March. 2014.

Ø “Warping can compress Big Data,” interview with California Aggie newspaper on the work, image compression using the anamorphic stretch transform, Jan. 2014.

Ø Cover picture of Optical Society of America and Optics and Photonics News pages on Face-book, Twitter and Google+, Feb. 2014.

Ø “New data compression method reduces big-data bottleneck; outperforms, enhances JPEG,” news coverage over more than 70 online news agencies, Since Dec. 2013.

Ø Biography included in the 2013 and 2014 editions of Marquis Who's Who in America, which endeavors to profile the leaders of American society since 1899, USA, 2012&2013.

Ø “Ultrafast pulse characterization: Optical complexity challenges pulse-measurement methods,” Laser Focus World magazine, USA, 2011.

Ø “Technology review in 2010: Scientists and engineers, a vital alliance,” Laser Focus World magazine, USA, 2010.

Ø “Passionate student at INRS,” magazine Planete INRS, Canada, 2009.

Dissertations: 1. PhD thesis title: Proposal, design, demonstration and characterization of all-fiber enabling devic-

es for ultrafast optical signal processing. University Of Quebec-INRS, Montreal, Canada, 2011. PhD Thesis rated exceptional.

2. MS thesis title: Space-time codes in wireless optical communication systems. Sharif University of technology, Tehran, Iran, 2006. MS Thesis rated 19.75 out of 20.

3. BS thesis title: Study of FM transmitter components and implementation of a 100 MHz FM transmitter for transmitting the heart sounds in hospitals. Khaje Nasir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2004. BS Thesis rated 20 out of 20.

Literary and artistic works: 1. Niloofar Sokhandan, H. Asghari, “Ultrafast optical processing group,” institutional poster for

INRS day, Canada, Jan. 2010.

2. H. Asghari, “passionate student at INRS-EMT,” institutional abstract about my biography for the magazine “Planète INRS”, Canada, May, 2009.

Research Reports 1. H. Asghari, “Annual research progress report for NSERC Post-doctoral fellowship,” USA, Sep.

2012.

2. H. Asghari, “Research progress report for NSERC Post-doctoral fellowship,” USA, Apr 2012.

3. H. Asghari, “Final research report for FQRNT PhD fellowship,” Canada, Sep. 2010.

4. H. Asghari, “Research progress report for FQRNT PhD fellowship,” Canada, Dec. 2009.

5. H. Asghari, “Research progress report for FQRNT PhD fellowship,” Canada, Jan. 2009.

Computer languages: • MATLAB, Java, Python, OpenGL, OpenCL, and C++.