Babak Hassibi
Education
PhD (EE) Stanford University, 1996
MS (EE) Stanford University, 1993
BS (EE) University of Tehran, 1989
Honors and Awards
2009 Al-Marai Award for Innovative Research in Communications
2004 National Academy of Engineering "Frontiers in Engineering" Participant
2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2003 David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
2002 Okawa Foundation Research Grant in Information Sciences
2002 National Science Foundation Career Award
1999 American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award
1989 First place in the Iranian National Qualifying Exam for Graduate Studies
1984-88 Alborz Foundation Fellowship
1984 Fourth place in Iranian National Mathematics Contest for High School Students
1984 Sixth place in Iranian National Qualifying Exam for Undergraduate Studies
Employment
2013-present: Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor
2009-present: Associate Director for Information Science and Technology
2008-present: Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology
2008-2013: Professor of Electrical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology
2003-2007: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology
2001-2003: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology
1998-2000: Member of Technical Staff, Mathematics of Communications Research,
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
1996-1998: Research Associate, Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
Short-term Appointments
Department of Automatic Control, Linkoping University, Linkoping, SWEDEN
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA
Ricoh California Research Center, Menlo Park, CA
Professional Activities
Associate Editor for Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory, 2003-present
Editorial Board, Foundations and Trends in Communications and
Information Theory, 2003-present
Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory special issue on "space-time transmission, reception, coding,
and signal processing", October 2003
Panelist, ONR Communications Technology Review, 2003
Panelist, NSF Workshop on Distributed Communications and Signal
Processing for Sensory Networks, 2002
Panelist, NSF/ONR Workshop on Cross-Layer Design
in Networks, 2001
Technical Committee on Communications Theory, IEEE Communications
Theory Society, 2002-present
Technical Program Committee,
International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
, 2004
Technical Program Committee,
International Conference on Communications, 2003
Technical program chair for communications track, Asilomar Conference
on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2002
Session organizer, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2002
Presented tutorials at the 1999 and 2002 IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing and
the 1999 American Automatic Control Conference
Co-founder and Scientific Advisory Board, Xagros Genomics Inc.