Urbashi Mitra

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Contact Info:

Department of Electrical Engineering
540 EEB, 3740 McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089

 tel: +1 213 740 4667
fax: +1 213 740 8729
email: ubli@usc.edu

Biographical Information

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.

From 1994 to 2001 I held Assistant and Associate professorships at the Ohio State University department of Electrical Engineering.

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Visiting Positions Held

Fall of 2002 was spent at Rice University, Dept. of Electrical Engieering

Summer of 1995 I spent visiting the Mobile Communications Group at the Institut EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis, France. I returned to EURECOM on several occasions in 1996 and 1997.

Honors & Awards

Texas Instruments Faculty Fellow, Rice University, Fall 2002

IEEE Information Theory, Board of Governors (January 2002--December 2004)

Okawa Foundation Award (2001, see Funding)

Co-Chair (with Steve McLaughlin of Georgia Tech), 2003 Communications Theory Mini-Conference, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Anchorage, Alaska

NSF Workshop on the Future of Communications Research, Participant,April 2001, Dallas TX

Lumley Research Award (2000), OSU College of Engineering

Charles E. MacQuigg Student Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Engineers Student Council (1997)

NSF CAREER Award (1996, see Funding)

NSF International Post-doctoral Fellowship (1994, see Funding)

Margaret Goheen Travel Fund Award (June 1993)

Lockheed Leadership Fellowship (1988-1989)

Microelectronics Fellowship (1987-1988)


Publications

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