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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 general research interests cover the areas of Machine Learning, Optimization, and Internet of Things. My Ph.D. research is focused on developing theory and practices for next generation large-scale distributed and heterogeneous networks. I am currently working 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. In addition, I am studying the generalization error and convergence of accelerated stochastic gradient descent.
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.