Urbashi Mitra

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Urbashi Mitra (born 1966) [1] is an American electrical engineer, the Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern California, and a professor in the university's Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science. Topics in her research have included wireless communication, underwater acoustic communication, wireless sensor networks, signal processing, [2] and network localization. [3]

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Education and career

Mitra was an undergraduate and master's student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in electrical engineering & computer science, graduated in 1987, and received a master's degree in 1989. [4] After a year on the technical staff of Bellcore, she continued her graduate studies at Princeton University. She completed a Ph.D. in 1994 with the dissertation Adaptive Multi-user Receivers supervised by Vincent Poor. [4] [5]

She became an assistant professor at Ohio State University in 1994, and was promoted to associate professor in 2000. She moved to the University of Southern California, and became full professor there in 2005. She was named as Dean's Professor in 2015 and as Gordon S. Marshall Professor in 2017. She has also held visiting positions at Rice University, Stanford University, Delft University of Technology, King's College London, and Imperial College London. [4]

In 2015, she became the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications . [4]

Recognition

Mitra was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2007, "for contributions to multiuser wideband digital communication systems". [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Mitra, Urbashi, 1966–, Library of Congress, retrieved 2024-07-01
  2. ↑ "Urbashi Mitra", Viterbi Faculty Directory, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, retrieved 2024-07-01
  3. ↑ Ballon, Marc (August 22, 2018), A Great Find: New localization research by USC Viterbi Professor Urbashi Mitra and her collaborator Junting Chen leverages collections of sensors to locate things, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, retrieved 2024-07-01
  4. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), July 6, 2020, retrieved 2024-07-01
  5. ↑ Urbashi Mitra at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2024-07-01
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