Aria Nosratinia is professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is also the director of the Multimedia Communications Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Rice University, and UCLA.

His interests lie in the broad area of information theory and signal processing, with applications in wireless communications and medical imaging. His recent work has been on relays and cooperative communication, cross-layer issues in communications, and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). He currently serves as editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and serves as an officer and member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He has also been an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications (Magazine), and Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. He has been the recipient of the National Science Foundation career award. Dr. Nosratinia is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. He was elected Fellow of IEEE for contributions to multimedia and wireless communication.