Research Interests:
Multi-user detection theory, code-division multiple-access communications for personal wireless and mobile applications, space-time coding, adaptive algorithms, equalization, wireless resource allocation, ultra wideband communications, sensor networks.
Biographical Information:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1994, Princeton University, Priceton, NJ.
Urbashi Mitra received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 (high honors) and 1989 respectively, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 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 an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. She became an Associate Professor in 2000 and currently holds that position in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
At the University of Southern California, Dr. Mitra is a member of the Communication Sciences Institute and the Integrated Media Systems Center. Along with Steve McLaughlin of Georgia Tech, she co-chaired the IEEE Communication Theory Mini-Conference at ICC 2003 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Awards and Honors
- Texas Instruments Visiting Professor, Rice University Fall 2002
- IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors (2001--2004)
- 2001 Okawa Foundation Award
- 2000 Lumley Award for Research (Ohio State College of Engineering)
- 1997 Charles E. MacQuigg Award for Teaching (Ohio State College of Engineering)
- 1996 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 1994 NSF International Post-doctoral Fellowship
- 1988 Lockheed Leadership Fellowship
- 1987 University of California Microelectronics Fellowship
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