Dr. Jafar received the NSF CAREER award in 2006, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2008, the IEEE Information Theory Society paper award in 2009 and the Engineering School Fariborz Maseeh Outstanding Research Award in 2010. He received the annual UC Irvine EECS Professor of the Year award four times, in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2012, for excellence in teaching. Dr. Jafar was the inaugural instructor for the First Canadian School of Information Theory in 2011, a plenary speaker for the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2010 and SPCOM 2010, and a Visiting Erskine Fellow to the University of Canterbury New Zealand. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications 2004-2009, for IEEE Communications Letters 2008-2009 and is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.