Dina Katabi

Dina Katabi (* 1971 ) is a Syrian computer scientist and senior scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ).

Life

Katabi studied at the University of Damascus (Bachelor 1995) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Master 1998). In 2003 she completed her doctorate in computer science with David D. Clark (dissertation: Decoupling Congestion Control and Bandwidth Allocation Policy With Application to High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks ) and was immediately hired by the renowned university as a junior professor. Today she is Andrew & Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, Co-Director of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, and Senior Scientist at CSAIL.

She is known for her work on fast Fourier transform (Sparse Fourier Transform), wireless communication networks ( e.g. congestion control , WLAN-based location ) and she demonstrated how the movement of bodies behind walls can be tracked with Wi-Fi signals.

Awards

2013 Grace Murray Hopper Award
2013 MacArthur Fellowship
2014 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery .
2017 ACM Prize in Computing
2017 admission to the National Academy of Engineering

Fonts (selection)

with S. Katti u. a .: XORs in the air: Practical wireless network coding, ACM SIGCOMM computer communication review, Volume 36, 2006, pp. 243-254
with M. Handley, C. Rohrs: Congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product networks, ACM SIGCOMM computer communication review, Volume 32, 2002, pp. 89-102
with S. Katti, S. Gollakota: Embracing wireless interference: Analog network coding, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 37, 2007, pp. 397-408
with S. Chachulski, M. Jennings, S. Katti: Trading structure for randomness in wireless opportunistic routing, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 37, 2007, pp 169-180
with F. Adib: See through walls with WiFi !, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 43, 2013, pp. 75–86
with H. Hassanieh u. a .: Simple and practical algorithm for sparse Fourier transform, Proceedings of the twenty-third annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2012, p. 1183

Web links

Homepage at MIT
Web links to her at the MacArthur Foundation
Videos by and about Dina Katabi in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library

Individual evidence

↑ Dina Katabi in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
^ Larry Hardesty: Signal Intelligence . In: MIT Technology Review . October 20, 2015 ( technologyreview.com [accessed April 23, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Katabi, Dina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Syrian computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1971

[1] Dina Katabi in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

[2] Larry Hardesty: Signal Intelligence . In: MIT Technology Review . October 20, 2015 ( technologyreview.com [accessed April 23, 2018]).