- Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi (born in
Tehran ,Iran ) is anIranian-American electrical engineer who is currently a professor ofElectrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech ).He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from
Tehran University in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering fromStanford University in 1993 and 1996 respectively. He was a member of the technical staff in Mathematics of Communications Research Group at theBell Laboratories in 1998-2000. He is the recipient of the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE ) [cite press release |publisher=Caltech Media Relations |date=May 4, 2004 |url=http://mr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12528.html |title=White House Names Three from Caltech Faculty as Presidential Early Career Award Winners |accessdate=2008-02-11] [cite web |url=http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/activities/pecase/02awards/hassibi.jsp |title=2002 PECASE AWARDEE - BABAK HASSIBI |accessdate=2008-02-11] , 2003 David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant in Information Sciences in 2002 and National Science Foundation Career Award in 2002 [cite web |url=http://www.systems.caltech.edu/EE/Faculty/babak/bio.html |title=Bio of Babak Hassibi |accessdate=2008-02-11] .References
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