About author:Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam (fmahyar.shirvanimoghaddam@newcastle.edu.au) received the BSc degree with 1st Class Honours from University of Tehran, Iran, in September 2008, the MSc degree with 1st Class Honours from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in October 2010, and the PhD degree from The University of Sydney, Australia, in January 2015, all in electrical engineering. He then held a research assistant position at the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, before coming to the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he is now a postdoctoral research associate at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His general research interests include channel coding techniques, cooperative communications, compressed sensing, machine-to-machine communications, and wireless sensor networks.
Sarah Johnson (sarah.johnsong@newcastle.edu.au) received the BE (Hons) degree in electrical engineering in 2000, and PhD in 2004, both from the University of Newcastle, Australia. She then held a postdoctoral position with the Wireless Signal Processing Program, National ICT Australia before returning to the University of Newcastle where she is now an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Her research interests are in the fields of error correction coding and network information theory. She is the author of a book on iterative error correction published by Cambridge University Press.
