Mohammad A. Masnadi-Shirazi (M'90) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, in 1974 and 1984, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, in 1990.He was teaching at Shiraz College of Electronics from 1974 to 1984, and a teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico from 1986 to 1990. He was a postdoctral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, from 1990 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Shiraz University, where he is now an Assistant Professor. His research interests are in the area of systems and signal processing, pattern recognition, digital image processing with applications to sonar and radar data, and statistical communications.