Dina Katabi

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Dina Katabi
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Katabi in 2013
Born 1971 (age 52–53)
Residence United States
Nationality Syrian American
Fields Computer science, electrical engineering
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor David Clark
Known for Congestion control, Fast Fourier transform, wireless network, X-ray vision
Notable awards Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (2013)
Macarthur fellowship (2013)
Grace Murray Hopper Award (2013)
IEEE Communication Society William R. Bennett Prize (2009)
Sloan Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2006)
Career Award from the National Science Foundation (2005)
Sprowls Dissertation Award (2003) from MIT
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (2003) from ACM

Dina Katabi (born 1971 in Damascus) is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center.

Academic biography

Katabi received a bachelor's degree from the University of Damascus in 1995 and S.M and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1998 and 2003 respectively.[1] In 2003, Katabi joined MIT where she currently 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 Grace Murray Hopper Award,[2] 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 Technology Review.[3]

In September 2013, Katabi was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her work.[4] In 2013 she also became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[5]

In 2014, on the celebration of Project Mac's 50th anniversary, her work on X-ray vision was chosen as one the "50 ways that MIT has transformed computer science".[6]

References

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  6. 50 Ways that MIT has Transformed Computer Science: the Countdown to our MAC50 Celebration!

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