Dina Katabi ( ar, دينا قَتابي) is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at

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and the director of the MIT Wireless Center.

Academic biography

Katabi received a bachelor's degree from the

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in 1995 and M.S and Ph.D. in

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from

in 1998 and 2003 respectively. In 2003, Katabi joined MIT, where she holds the title of Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is the co-director of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing and a principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Awards

In 2013, Katabi won the

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, recognizing her as the outstanding young computer science professional. In 2012, her work on Sparse Fourier Transforms was chosen as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year by

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. In September 2013, Katabi was awarded a

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for her work. In 2013 she also became a

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of the

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. In 2014, on the celebration of

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's 50th anniversary, her work on

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was chosen as one of the "50 ways that MIT has transformed computer science."50 Ways that MIT has Transformed Computer Science: the Countdown to our MAC50 Celebration!
/ref> In 2015, Katabi presented her startup idea to President Obama at White House demo day. In 2017, she was elected a member of the

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for contributions to network congestion control and to wireless communications. In 2017, Katabi was awarded the ACM Prize in Computing, recognizing her as "one of the most innovative researchers in the field of networking, Katabi applies methods from communication theory, signal processing and machine learning to solve problems in wireless networking".

References

External links

Dina Katabi's CSAIL homepage
at

MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
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