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Short Bio
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Urbashi Mitra received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from
the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Princeton
University. After a six year stint at the Ohio State
University, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where she is currently a
Professor. Dr. Mitra is a member of the IEEE Information Theory Society's
Board of Governors (2002-2007, 2012-2014) and the IEEE Signal Processing
Society’s Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and
Networks (2012-2014). Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE. She is the recipient of: 2012 Globecom
Signal Processing for Communications Symposium Best Paper Award, 2012 NAE
Lillian Gilbreth Lectureship, USC Center for
Excellence in Research Fellowship (2010-2013), the 2009 DCOSS Applications
& Systems Best Paper Award, Texas Instruments Visiting Professor (Fall
2002, Rice University), 2001 Okawa Foundation
Award, 2000 OSU College of Engineering Lumley Award for Research, 1997 OSU
College of Engineering MacQuigg Award for Teaching,
and a 1996 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. Dr. Mitra
currently serves on the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing committee
and the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal committee. She has
been/is an Associate Editor for the following IEEE publications: Transactions
on Signal Processing (2012--), Transactions on Information Theory
(2007-2011), Journal of Oceanic Engineering (2006-2011), and Transactions on
Communications (1996-2001). She has co-chaired: (technical program) 2014 IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory in Honolulu, HI, 2014 IEEE
Information Theory Workshop in Hobart, Tasmania, IEEE 2012 International
Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Bangalore India, and the IEEE
Communication Theory Symposium at ICC 2003 in Anchorage, AK; and
general co-chair for 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 Delft University of Technology, Stanford University, Rice University, and
the Eurecom Institute. She served as co-Director of
the Communication Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California
from 2004-2007. Her research interests
are in: wireless communications, communication and sensor networks, detection
and estimation and the interface of communication, sensing and control.
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