Urbashi Mitra#
| Membership Number: | 6984 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Mitra/Urbashi |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8896-1177 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 University of Southern California, Gordon S. Marshall Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Computer Science
- 2016 - 2017 King’s College, London & Imperial College, London, UK, Visiting Professor
- 2009 - 2010 Delft University of Technology,The Netherlands, Visiting Professor
- Fall 2003 Stanford University ,Visiting Associate Professor
- Fall 2002 Rice University,Visiting Associate Professor, Texas Instruments Faculty Fellow
- 1994 - 2000 The Ohio State University, Assistant Professor (09/94–08/00), Assoc Prof (09/00–12/00)
- 6/1995 - 8/1995, 11/1996,6/1997, 9/1997 Eurecom Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France, Visiting Scholar
- 1990 - 1994 Princeton University, Research Assistant, (graduated with Ph.D. in 1994)
- 1989 - 1990 Bellcore, Red Bank, New Jersey, Member of Technical Staff
- 1987 - 1989 University of California, Berkeley, Research Assistant
Fields of Scholarship
- Sensor networks
- Wireless communication systems (4G,5G,6G)
- Machine learning
- Molecular communications
- Statistical learning and inference
- Underwater networking
- Information theory
- Communication theory
- Signal processing
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- June 2023, Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Rome, Italy
- July 2023 Plenary Speaker, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2021 Viterbi School of Engineering Senior Research Award
- Plenary Speaker, SampTA 2019, International Conference on Sampling Theory & Applications, July 2019, Bordeaux, France
- January 2019 - December 2020 Chair, Communication Theory Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society
- January 2024 Vice-Chair, Signal Processing for Communications and Networking, Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 12/17 IEEE Communications Society’s Women in Communications Engineering Committee’s Technical Achievement Award
- January 2018 - December 2020 Member-at-Large, IEEE Communications Society’s Board of Governors
- August 2017, Plenary Speaker, DSP 2017, International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, London UK
- June 2017, Plenary Speaker, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Aachen Germany
- 2016 IEEE Communications Society, Women in Communications Engineering, Mentorship Award
- 2016 Plenary Speaker, EUSIPCO, Budapest, Hungary, August/September
- Fall 2016 Fulbright US Scholar Award
- 2016 - 2017 Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship Fellowship
- 2016 United Kingdom Royal Academy of Engineering, Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Fall
- 2014 - 2015 IEEE Communications Society, Distinguished Lecturer
- 2009 USC VSoE Dean’s Service Award
- 2009 USC Remarkable Woman Award (Faculty)
- 2007 Elected IEEE Fellow
