Nariman Farvardin
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Nariman Farvardin previously served the University as Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering.  His research interests include information theory and coding; multimedia signal compression and transmission; high-speed communication networks; and wireless networks. He has more than 150 technical papers in archival journals and conference proceedings. A Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dr. Farvardin is a widely respected researcher in communications and information theory. Among his honors, he has been awarded the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award; the George Corcoran Award for Outstanding Contributions to Electrical Engineering Education; and the Invention of the Year Award (Information Sciences), from the University of Maryland. In January 2003, he was selected by The Washington Post as one of the "Five to Watch in 2003." Farvardin earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

Dr. Nariman Farvardin
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
University of Maryland
1119 Main Administration
College Park, MD 20742

Telephone: 301-405-5252
Fax: 301-405-8195
Email: farvar@umd.edu