Ali H. Sayed (born

São Paulo, Brazil SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Serb Autonomous Regions (''Srpska autonomna oblast'', SAO), during the breakup of Yu ...

, to parents of Lebanese descent) is the dean of engineering at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), where he teaches and conducts research on

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, Learning,

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, and Signal Processing for Communications. He is the Director of the EPFL Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has authored several books on estimation and filtering theories, including the textbook ''Adaptive Filters'', published by Wiley & Sons in 2008. Professor Sayed received the degrees of Engineer and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the

University of São Paulo The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil. The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...

, Brazil, in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in

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from

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in 1992.

Awards and honors

* Sayed was elected a member of the

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in 2018 for contributions to the theory and applications of adaptive signal processing. * Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the

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(2005). * Distinguished Lecturer of the

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(2005). * Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (2003). *

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of the

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(2001) for contributions to adaptive filtering and estimation algorithms. His papers have received several awards: * 2005 Co-author for "Young Author Best Paper Award" of Waleed M. Younis from the

(together with Naofal Al-Dhahir). * 2002 "Best Paper Award" from the

. * 1996 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award (together with Thomas Kailath). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the

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Transactions on Signal Processing (2003–2005) and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2006–2007).

Books

* Ali H. Sayed, Adaptive Filters, Wiley, NJ, 2008 (). * Ali H. Sayed, Fundamentals of Adaptive Filtering, Wiley, NJ, 2003 (). * Thomas Kailath, Ali H. Sayed, and Babak Hassibi, Linear Estimation, Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2000 (). * Thomas Kailath and Ali H. Sayed, editors, Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999 (). * Babak Hassibi, Ali H. Sayed, and Thomas Kailath, Indefinite Quadratic Estimation and Control: A Unified Approach to H² and H^∞ Theories, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999 ().

External links

UCLA Adaptive Systems Laboratory homepage

UCLA Electrical Engineering Department homepage

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sayed, Ali H. Living people Brazilian emigrants to the United States Brazilian people of Lebanese descent Year of birth missing (living people) People from São Paulo University of São Paulo alumni Stanford University alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne