Nationality Syrian American Doctoral advisor David D. Clark | Name Dina Katabi | |
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Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Notable awards Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (2013)Macarthur fellowship (2013)Grace Murray Hopper Award (2013)IEEE Communication Society William R. Bennett Prize (2009)Sloan Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2006)Career Award from the National Science Foundation (2005)Sprowls Dissertation Award (2003) from MITACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (2003) from ACM Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fields Computer Science, Electrical engineering | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
Technology Day 2018: AI and Your Health - Dina Katabi '99, PhD '03
Dina Katabi (Arabic: دينا قَتابي) (born 1971 in Damascus) is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center.
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- Computer scientist dina katabi 2013 macarthur fellow macarthur foundation
- Academic biography
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Computer scientist dina katabi 2013 macarthur fellow macarthur foundation
Academic biography
Katabi received a bachelor's degree from the University of Damascus in 1995 and S.M and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1998 and 2003 respectively. In 2003, Katabi joined MIT, where she currently holds the title of Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is the co-director of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing and a principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Awards
In 2013, Katabi won the Grace Murray Hopper Award, recognizing her as the outstanding young computer science professional.
In 2012, her work on Sparse Fourier Transforms was chosen as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year by Technology Review.
In September 2013, Katabi was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her work. In 2013 she also became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2014, on the celebration of Project Mac's 50th anniversary, her work on X-ray vision was chosen as one the "50 ways that MIT has transformed computer science".
In 2015, Katabi presented her startup idea to President Obama at White House demo day.
In 2017 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.