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 serves as editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and IEEE Wireless Communications (Magazine). He is a past editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. He has been the recipient of the National Science Foundation career award. Dr. Nosratinia is a senior member of the IEEE and a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.