Ali Abedi

Associate Vice President for Research
Director of the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR)
Director of the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of WiSe-Net Lab

Dr. Abedi joined the University of Maine, Orono in 2005, where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Cooperating Professor of Computing and Information Sciences. He is also serving as Associate Vice President for Research, Director of Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), and Director of the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center at UMaine. He was a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, and Guest Researcher at NIST in 2012, and Faculty Fellow at NASA in 2016. Dr. Abedi is the founding Director of WiSe-Net Lab, where he directs research programs including analytical performance evaluation of block codes, new methods for performance and convergence analysis of Turbo-codes, and applications of error correction codes in wireless sensor networks for structural monitoring, space explorations, and bio-medical applications. His research on wireless sensing of lunar habitats was featured on NSF Science360 website in 2012. He is co-founder of two startup companies (Activas-Diagnostics and Nawindor). Dr. Abedi has received a number of awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), NASA, and IEEE. He is a senior member of IEEE and has served on several IEEE Committees at local, regional, national, and international levels.  Dr. Abedi is Co-founder of IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) and currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of RFID, IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), and IET Wireless Sensor Systems (WSS) Journal.  Dr. Abedi serves as program evaluator (PEV) for ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology) since 2016 and as Extra class accredited Volunteer Examiner (VE) for ARRL since 2012.