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Biographical
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Urbashi Mitra received the B.S.
and the M.S. degrees from the University
of California at Berkeley in 1987 and 1989 respectively, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science. Prior to commencing the Masters degree, she was a visiting
research assistant at the Signal
Processing Laboratory of the Tampere
University of Technology, Finland.
From 1989 until 1990 she worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore in Red Bank, NJ. In 1994, she received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Electrical Engineering. From 1994 to 2000, Dr. Mitra was
a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2001, she joined the
Department of
Electrical Engineering at the University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, where she
is currently a Professor. Dr.
Mitra is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory and the IEEE
Journal of Oceanic Engineering. She was an Associate Editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Communications from1996 to 2001. Dr. Mitra served two terms
as a member of the IEEE Information Theory Society's Board of Governors
(2002-2007). She is
the recipient of: Best Applications Paper Award
– 2009 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor
Systems, the Viterbi School of Engineering Dean’s Faculty Service Award
(2009), a USC Remarkable Woman Award (2009), USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2008), IEEE Fellow
(2007), Texas Instruments Visiting
Professor (Fall 2002, Rice University), 2001 Okawa
Foundation Award, 2000 Lumley Award for Research (OSU College of
Engineering), 1997 MacQuigg Award for Teaching (OSU
College of Engineering), 1996 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award,
1994 NSF International Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1998 Lockheed Leadership
Fellowship, 1987 California Microelectronics Fellowship. She has co-chaired the IEEE
Communication Theory Symposium at ICC 2003 in Anchorage,
AK and the first ACM Workshop on Underwater
Networks at Mobicom 2006, Los
Angeles, CA. Dr. Mitra was the Tutorials Chair for IEEE
ISIT 2007 in Nice, France
and the Finance Chair for IEEE
ICASSP 2008 in Las Vegas,
NV. Dr.Mitra
has held visiting appointments at: the Institut EURECOM , Rice University and Stanford University. She is currently
on sabbatical at the Technical
University of Delft, Netherlands.
Dr. Mitra served as co-Director of the Communication
Sciences Institute at the University
of Southern California
from 2004-2007. She was the Chair of the Viterbi WiSE
Committee from 2007-2009.
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