Urbashi Mitra

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Biography:

Urbashi Mitra received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from the  University of California at Berkeley in 1987  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 a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Ohio  State University, Columbus, Ohio.   In 2001, she joined the Department of  Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California,  Los Angeles, where she is currently a Professor.  Dr. Mitra is currently  an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory  and the Journal of Oceanic Engineering. She was an  Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1996 to 2001. Dr. Mitra served two terms as a member  of the IEEE Information Theory Society's Board of Governors (2002-2007).    She is the recipient of: Best Applications Paper Award – 2009 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, the Viterbi School of Engineering Dean’s Faculty Service Award (2009), a USC Remarkable Woman Award (2009), USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2008), IEEE Fellow  (2007), Texas Instruments Visiting  Professor (Fall 2002,  Rice University), 2001 Okawa Foundation Research Award, 2000 Lumley Award  for Research (OSU College of Engineering), 1997 MacQuigg Award for  Teaching (OSU College of Engineering), 1996 National Science  Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 1994 NSF International Post-doctoral  Fellowship, 1998 Lockheed Leadership Fellowship, 1987 California  Microelectronics Fellowship.  She has co-chaired the IEEE  Communication Theory Symposium at ICC 2003 in Anchorage, AK and the 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 Technical University of Delft, Stanford University, Rice Unviersity, and the Eurecom Institute.  She served as co-Director of the  Communication Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California  from 2004-2007. 

Research Interests:

• Communications

Participation & Positions:

Board of Governors (01/01/12 until 12/31/14)
Awards Committee (2012)
Publications Committee (Associate Editor At Large, 05/01/07 until 04/30/10)
Board of Governors (01/01/05 until 12/31/07)
Board of Governors (01/01/03 until 12/31/04)