!!Urbashi Mitra - Biography
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Urbashi Mitra (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, and the Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. She is currently the Gordon S. Marshall Chair of engineering with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. She has held visiting professor positions at Kings College and Imperial College, UK and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. Her research interests include wireless communications, biological communication, underwater acoustic communications, communication and sensor networks, and the detection, estimation, and the interface of communication, sensing, and control. She was the recipient of the 1996 National Science Foundation CAREER Award and 1997 OSU College of Engineering Award for Teaching, 2000 OSU College of Engineering Lumley Award for Research, 2001 Okawa Foundation Award, Texas Instruments Visiting Professorship (Rice University, Fall 2002), 2009 DCOSS Applications and Systems Best Paper Award, Best Paper Award from the 2012 GLOBECOM Signal Processing Symposium for Communications, 2012 U.S. National Academy of Engineering Lillian Gilbreth Lectureship, 2014 to 2015 IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, Women in Communications Engineering Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 2017, 2016 U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Professorship, 2016 USA Fulbright Scholar Award, 2016 to 2017 U.K. Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, and 2021 USC Viterbi School of Engineering Senior Research Award. She was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications. She was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2012 to 2015, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2007 to 2011, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering from 2006 to 2011, and IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1996 to 2001.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit umitra}][{ALLOW upload umitra}][{ALLOW comment All}]