Urbashi Mitra
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
Campus Address:
Communication Sciences Institute
Department of Electrical
Engineering-Systems
University of Southern California
3740 McClintock Ave., EEB-540
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565
phone: (213) 740-4667
fax: (213) 740-8729
email: ubli@usc.edu
My Life
Spring 2001 Schedule
- Office Hours:
- teaching MW 5:00-6:20 PM
- M 1:30-3:00 PM
- T 2:00-3:30 PM
- by appointment (e-mail is best, ubli@usc.edu)
- Will be teaching:
Research Interests
My current research interests include multi-user detection theory,
code-division multiple-access communications for personal wireless and
mobile applications, adaptive algorithms, non-parametric detection
techniques and equalization methods.
Current Students
Past ``Borrowed'' Students
- Mehmet Akar (worked with Umit Ozguner, Postdoctoral Researcher -- Yale
University)
control theory based resource allocation for wireless
- Emre Ertin (worked with Lee Potter, Battelle)
multipath channel estimation
- Ashutosh Sabharwal (worked with Lee Potter, Postdoctoral Researcher --
Rice University)
cyclic Wiener filters for multi-rate CDMA
Past Students
- Abhay Sharma MS'00 (Analog Devices, Boston, MA)
- Zhouyue Pi MS'00 (Nokia, Richardson, TX)
- Li-Chung Chu PhD'99 (Synposys, Mountain View, CA)
- Radha Srinivasan MS'98 (advised with Randy Moses)(Nokia, Richardson,
TX)
- Adolfo Recio MS'98 (Impsat, Colubmia)
- Jiangxin Chen MS'97 (Qualcomm, San Diego, CA)
- Siwaruk Siwamogsatham MS'97 (still at OSU)
- Keerthi Govind MS'96 (Qualcomm, San Diego, CA)
- Jwalant Vakil MS'96 (Motorola, Schaumburg, IL)
Teaching
Autumn Quarter 2000
- EE 501 Introduction to Communication Theory (at OSU)
Other courses I have taught at OSU:
- EE 352 Linear Systems II
- EE 501 Communication Theory
- EE 804 Random Variables and Probability Theory
- EE 805 Random Processes and Linear Systems
- EE 806 Detection and Estimation Theory
- EE 807 Multi-user Detection Theory
My Technical Past
I received my B.S. degree and the M.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in
1987 and 1989 respectively, both in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Prior to commencing the work for my Masters degree, I was a visiting research
assistant at the
Signal Processing Laboratory of the
Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland where I studied finite
impulse response median hybrid filters.
After completing
my Masters degree, I worked as a Member of Technical Staff at
Bellcore in Red Bank,NJ, where I wrote SS7 requirements and actively
participated
in T1S1 standards. In 1994, I received my Ph.D. from
Princeton University
in
Electrical Engineering.
Until December, 2000, I was an Associate Professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Summer of 1995 I spent visiting the
Mobile Communications Group
at the
Institut EURECOM
in Sophia Antipolis, France.
Related to physical layer issues in wireless communications,
there are researchers investigating
blind equalization methods as well as information theoretic
approaches to wireless communications problems.
I've made return trips to EURECOM in November 1996, June 1997 and
the next trip is planned for September 1997. While at
EURECOM, I've been collaborating with
Professor Dirk Slock on blind identification schemes for
CDMA signals.
I've also recently begun collaboration with Professor
Giuseppe Caire of Eurecom. We're looking at training sequence
design and channel estimation for adaptive multi-user receivers.
With Professor Kimberly Wasserman of the University of Michigan,
I am investigating throughput maximization of DS/CDMA systems
for integrated voice and data traffic.
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