Ph. D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 1990
Thesis Title: "Versatile Reed-Solomon Decoders" 
M. Sc. Philips International Institute, Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 1977
Thesis Title: "An All Digital Phase-Locked-Loop Suitable for Carrier Recovery in Synchronous Data Transmission"
B. Sc. Electrical Engineering, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, May 1975 (with distinction)
Major: "Electronics"