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Postdoctoral Fellow
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I am presently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vector Institute, working with Prof. Daniel Roy. I finished my Ph.D. at the University of Toronto where I was very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Ben Liang and Prof. Min Dong.
My Ph.D. research was focused on developing theory and practices for next generation large-scale distributed and heterogeneous networks. I work in the area of machine learning. In particular, I am developing communication-efficient variants of stochastic gradient descent to train very large and complex models with large datasets in a distributed manner.
03/2020, I gave a talk titled ‘‘SGD on Distributed Systems and Communication-Efficient SGD’’ at the University of Windsor.
02/2020, our poster, entitled ‘‘Adaptive Quantization for Data-Parallel SGD’’, has been accepted to ML4HPC 2020: Workshop on the Convergence of ML and HPC.
12/2019, I gave a talk titled ‘‘From Communication-Efficient SGD to Machine Learning for IoT’’ at the Aalborg University.
12/2019, I gave a talk titled ‘‘From Interaction of Convergence, Generalization, and Communication to Machine Learning for IoT’’ at the University of Bergen.
7/2019, I gave a talk titled ‘‘Stochastic Gradient Compression Schemes for Communication-Efficient SGD’’ at EPFL.
7/2019, I gave a talk titled ‘‘Stochastic Gradient Compression Schemes for Communication-Efficient SGD’’ at Instituto Superior Tecnico.
4/2019, I gave a talk titled ‘‘From Interference Control for IoT Ecosystem with D2D Communication to Communication- Efficient Variants of SGD’’ at the University of Manitoba.
02/2019, our U.S. patent application, entitled ‘‘Device-to-Device Communication in a Multi-Cell Network with Perfect and Imperfect CSI’’, has been published.
10/2018, I am thrilled to join Vector Institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
8/2018, I gave a talk titled ‘‘Stability of Stochastic Gradient Method with Momentum for Strongly Convex Loss Functions’’ at Vector Institute.
7/2018, I gave a talk titled ‘‘Stability of Stochastic Gradient Method with Momentum for Strongly Convex Loss Functions’’ at UoT IT Seminar.
5/2018, I gave a talk titled ‘‘Interference Control for IoT Ecosystem with D2D Communication’’ at Telecom ParisTech.
4/2018, I gave a talk titled ‘‘Interference Control for IoT Ecosystem with D2D Communication’’ at Telecom ParisTech.
1/2018, I received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (NSERC PDF).
11/2017, I joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
09/2017, I have finished my Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.
06/2017, our paper, entitled ‘‘Interference Minimization in Cooperative Relay Beamforming with Multiple Communicating Pairs’’, has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
04/2017, our paper, entitled ‘‘Joint Power Optimization for Device-to-Device Communication in Cellular Networks with Interference Control’’, has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
01/2017, our paper, entitled ‘‘Robust Power Optimization for Device-to-Device Communication in a Multi-Cell Network’’, has been accepted to ICC 2017.
11/2016, I received the V. L. Henderson and M. Bassett Research Fellowship at UoT.
07/2016, I received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) at UoT.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Fartash Faghri, and Daniel M. Roy, ‘‘NUQSGD: Improved Communication Efficiency for Data-parallel SGD via Nonuniform Quantization’’, under review.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Ashish Khisti, and Ben Liang, ‘‘On the Stability and Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum’’, under review.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Ben Liang, Min Dong, and Gary Boudreau, ‘‘Robust Power Optimization for Device-to-Device Communication in Multi-Cell Networks’’, under review.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Min Dong, Ben Liang, Gary Boudreau, and S. Hossein Seyedmehdi, ‘‘Joint Power Optimization for Device-to-Device Communication in Cellular Networks with Interference Control’’, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, pp. 5131-5146, August 2017.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Ben Liang, Min Dong, Gary Boudreau, and Ronald Casselman, ‘‘Interference Minimization in Cooperative Relay Beamforming with Multiple Communicating Pairs’’, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, pp. 6514-6527, October 2017.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Min Dong, Ben Liang, Gary Boudreau, and Ronald Casselman, ‘‘Per-Relay Power Minimization with Cooperative Relay Beamforming’’, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, pp. 3187-3198, May 2016.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Il-Min Kim, Dong In Kim, Francois Chan, and Robert Inkol, ‘‘Likelihood-Based Modulation Classification for Multiple-Antenna Receiver’’, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, pp. 3816-3829, September 2013.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Il-Min Kim, Francois Chan, Robert Inkol, and Hyoung-Kyu Song, ‘‘Detection for an AF Cooperative Diversity Network in the Presence of Interference’’, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 17, pp. 653-656, April 2013.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Min Dong, Ben Liang, Gary Boudreau, and S. Hossein Seyedmehdi, ‘‘Robust Power Optimization for Device-to-Device Communication in a Multi-Cell Network’’, in the Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France, May 2017.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Min Dong, Ben Liang, Gary Boudreau, and S. Hossein Seyedmehdi, ‘‘Optimal Power Allocation in Device-to-Device Communication with SIMO Uplink Beamforming’’, in the Proceedings of IEEE SPAWC 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015.
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Min Dong, Ben Liang, Gary Boudreau, and Ronald Casselman, ‘‘Optimal Cooperative Relay Beamforming for Interference Minimization’’, in the Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2015, London, U.K., June 2015.
‘‘Device-to-Device Communication in a Multi-Cell Network with Perfect and Imperfect CSI’’US Patent Application No. US20190044648A1, February 2019.
‘‘Power Allocation for Device-to-Device Communication Underlaying Cellular Networks’’US Patent Application No. US20180077653A1, March 2018.
‘‘Interference and/or Power Reduction for Multiple Relay Nodes Using Cooperative Beamforming’’US Patent No. 10042852, August 2018.
I enjoy playing volleyball.