S. Hamid Nawab is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original cam ...

who is a researcher, educator, and engineer in the

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing '' signals'', such as sound, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniques are used to optimize transmissions, ...

and machine perception subfields of Electrical Engineering and their application to the machine/computer analysis of complex

biosignal A biosignal is any signal in living beings that can be continually measured and monitored. The term biosignal is often used to refer to bioelectrical signals, but it may refer to both electrical and non-electrical signals. The usual understanding ...

s from auditory, speech, and neuromuscular systems.

Education

Nawab received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering, MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the

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(MIT) in 1977, 1979 and 1982, respectively.

Career

Nawab is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for contributions to the analysis of complex biosignals from speech, auditory, and neuromuscular systems. Key journal articles written by Nawab include "Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals", "Decomposition of Surface EMG Signals", "Approximate Signal Processing", "Direction Determination of Wideband Signals" (winner of the 1988 Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society in the Multidimensional Signal Processing category), and "Signal Reconstruction from Short-time Fourier Transform Magnitude". Among his other major written works is the book ''Symbolic and Knowledge-Based Signal Processing'' at the intersection of signal processing and artificial intelligence research, as well as the textbook ''Signals and Systems'' that he co-authored with Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky. The textbook has been adopted around the world with its international edition and its Chinese edition. Nawab is currently a tenured full professor at Boston University, where he has earned five teaching awards, including the university-wide Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has held visiting professorships in Electrical Engineering at MIT (1994–95) and in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1989–90). Nawab is also Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Yobe Inc.

Personal life

Nawab is a

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. He currently lives in

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, with his wife and son. He has lived in the Greater Boston area since 1974 when he first arrived in the US to attend college.

References

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