Professor Mohsen Razavi

Profile

Mohsen Razavi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees (with honours) in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. From August 1999 to June 2001, he worked on all-optical CDMA networks and the possible employment of optical amplifiers in such systems.  He joined the Research Laboratory of Electronics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 2001 to pursue his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which he completed in 2006. He continued his work at MIT as a Post-doctoral Associate during Fall 2006, before joining the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo as a Post-doctoral Fellow in January 2007. Since September 2009, he is a Faculty Member at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds. Prof Razavi is a recipient of the MIT-HP Alliance Fellowship and the Marie-Curie International Reintegration Grant. He chaired and organized the first International Workshop on Quantum Communication Networks in 2014. He also coordinated the European Innovative Training Network, QCALL, which aimed at providing quantum communications services to all users.  Prof Razavi has authord an introductory book on quantum communications networks published as part of IOP Concise Physics series. His research interests include a variety of topics in quantum and classical optical communications, quantum optics, and quantum communications networks.

Responsibilities

• Director of Post-Graduate Research Studies
• Programme Manager: Engineering, Technology, and Business Management

Research interests

Quantum Communications; Quantum Key Distribution; Quantum Repeaters; Quantum Communications Networks

• Quantum Wide Area Networks via Multi-Antenna Satellite Nodes
• Quantum-Safe Internet (QSI)

Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2006
• MSc in Communications Systems, Sharif University of Technology, 2000
• BSc in Electronics, Sharif University of Technology, 1998

Research groups and institutes

• Pollard Institute
• Quantum electronics and communications

Current postgraduate researchers

• Kenny Campbell
• Zhaohui Liu
• Javier Rey Domínguez

Projects

<li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1118-quantum-communications-at-short-and-long-distances">Quantum Communications at Short and Long Distances</a></li> <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/722-software-defined-quantum-key-distribution-networks">Software-Defined Quantum Key Distribution Networks</a></li>