Shahram Latifi, an IEEE Fellow, received the Master of Science and the PhD degrees both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1986 and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UNLV. He has designed and taught courses and authored over 250 technical articles in the areas of networking, cybersecurity, image processing, biometrics, fault tolerant computing, parallel processing, and data compression. His research has been funded by NSF, NASA, DOE, DoD, Boeing, Lockheed and Cray Inc. Dr. Latifi was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (1999-2006), an IEEE Distinguished Speaker (1997-2000), and Co-founder and General Chair of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Information Technology (2004-2021). Dr. Latifi is the recipient of several research awards, the most recent being the Silver State Research Award. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Nevada.
