Babak Hassibi
Babk Hassibi is an expert in electrical engineering and communications.
Professor and Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering
Contact:
626-395-4810
hassibi@caltech.edu
Expertise:
Electrical Engineering; communications; signal processing; and control. Wireless networks; genomic signal processing; modeling issues, information-theoretic questions; scheduling; protocols; various performance criteria, etc of wireless networks.
Genomic signal processing; real-time DNA microarrays.
Multi-antenna systems (e.g., space-time codes); efficient decoding algorithms in communications; adaptive signal processing and neural networks; blind channel equalization; statistical signal processing; robust estimation and control, especially connections between robustness and adaptation; and linear algebra, with emphasis on fast algorithms, random matrices and group representation theory.
Awards and Honors:
2004 National Academy of Engineering "Frontiers in Engineering" Participant; 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE); 2003 David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering; 2002 Okawa Foundation Research Grant in Information Sciences; 2002 National Science Foundation Career Award; 1999 American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award; 1989 First place in the Iranian National Qualifying Exam for Graduate Studies; 1984-88 Alborz Foundation Fellowship; 1984 Fourth place in Iranian National Mathematics Contest for High School Students; 1984 Sixth place in Iranian National Qualifying Exam for Undergraduate Studies
