Dina Katabi | |
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Born | 1970 (age 53–54) Damascus, Syria |
Nationality | Syrian American |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Congestion control, Sparse Fourier transform, wireless network, X-ray vision |
Awards | ACM Prize in Computing (2017) MacArthur Fellowship (2013) Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (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 MIT ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (2003) from ACM |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science, electrical engineering |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Decoupling Congestion Control and Bandwidth Allocation Policy With Application to High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks (2003) |
Doctoral advisor | David Clark |
Dina Katabi (Arabic: دينا قَتابي; born 1970) is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center. She was designated as one of the world’s most influential women engineers by Forbes magazine.[1]