Ehsan Maani was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. He received his B.Sc. from Sharif Univesity of Tech. in Tehran in the field of theoretical physics. He later joined IVPL at Northwestern in 2004 and received his M.Sc. from Northwestern University in 2007. His thesis title was "Optimal Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Real-Time Video Transmission". He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. under supervision of Prof. Katsaggelos with a focus on efficient scalable video delivery over wireless and ad-hoc networks.
In summer 2007, Ehsan worked as an intern for Neokast, LLC. His mission was to develop and implement a rate shaping and packet prioritization algorithm for P2P video streaming. He later continued his work with Neokast and developed a video "fingerprinting" algorithm for video copy identification in a database.