California Institute of Technology

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

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