Hamid_Nawab

Hamid Nawab

Hamid Nawab

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University

S. Hamid Nawab[1] is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University who is a researcher, educator, and engineer in the signal processing and machine perception subfields of Electrical Engineering and their application to the machine/computer analysis of complex biosignals from auditory, speech, and neuromuscular systems.[2]

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Education

Nawab received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering, MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977, 1979 and 1982, respectively.[3]

Career

Nawab is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering[2] (AIMBE) for contributions[4] to the analysis of complex biosignals from speech, auditory, and neuromuscular systems.[2]

Key journal articles written by Nawab include "Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals",[5] "Decomposition of Surface EMG Signals",[6][7] "Approximate Signal Processing",[8] "Direction Determination of Wideband Signals"[9] (winner of the 1988 Paper Award [10] from IEEE Signal Processing Society in the Multidimensional Signal Processing category), and "Signal Reconstruction from Short-time Fourier Transform Magnitude".[11]

Among his other major written works is the book Symbolic and Knowledge-Based Signal Processing[12] at the intersection of signal processing and artificial intelligence research, as well as the textbook Signals and Systems[13] that he co-authored with Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky. The textbook has been adopted around the world with its international edition[14] and its Chinese edition.[15]

Nawab is currently a tenured full professor at Boston University,[1] where he has earned five teaching awards, including the university-wide Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.[16] He has held visiting professorships in Electrical Engineering at MIT (1994–95)[17] and in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1989–90).[18]

Nawab is also Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Yobe Inc.[19]

Personal life

Nawab is a Pakistani-American. He currently lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with his wife and son.[20] He has lived in the Greater Boston area since 1974 when he first arrived in the US to attend college.

References

  1. [1]
    "Faculty » Electrical & Computer Engineering | Boston University". ece.bu.edu. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
  2. [2]
    "AIMBE". aimbe.org. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
  3. [3]
    "PhD Thesis" (PDF). MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. May 1982.
  4. [4]
    "Syed Hamid Nawab, Ph.D. COF-0714 - AIMBE". aimbe.org. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
  5. [5]
    IPUS: an architecture for the integrated processing and understanding of signals (1995), Artificial Intelligence, 77(1), pp. 129–171.
  6. [6]
    Decomposition of Surface EMG Signals (2006), Journal of Neurophysiology, 96(3), pp. 1646–57.
  7. [7]
    High-yield decomposition of surface EMG signals (2010), Clinical Neurophysiology, 121(10), pp. 1602–15.
  8. [8]
    Approximate signal processing (1997), The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing (Springer), 15(1), pp.177–200.
  9. [9]
    Direction Determination of Wideband Signals (1985), IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 33(5), 1114–22,
  10. [10]
    "IEEE Signal Processing Society: 1988 Paper Award in Multidimensional Signal Processing Category" (PDF).
  11. [11]
    Signal reconstruction from short-time Fourier transform magnitude (1983), IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 31(4), pp. 986–98.
  12. [12]
    Symbolic and Knowledge-Based Signal Processing. Prentice Hall. 1992. ISBN 9780138804442.
  13. [13]
    Nawab, Syed Hamid (1997). Signals and Systems. Pearson (Prentice Hall). ISBN 9780138147570.
  14. [14]
    "Pearson Education - Signals and Systems: Pearson New International Edition". www.pearsoned.co.uk. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  15. [15]
    Oppenheim, Alan V; Willsky, Alan S; Nawab, S. Hamid; 刘树棠 (January 1, 2010). 信号与系统 (in Chinese). 西安: 西安交通大学出版社. ISBN 9787560537726. OCLC 723927930.
  16. [16]
    "Metcalf Awards for Excellence in Teaching: Past Awardees » Office of the Provost | Boston University". www.bu.edu. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  17. [17]
    "RP Template". web.mit.edu. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  18. [18]
    "Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst" (PDF).
  19. [19]
    "Yobe". Yobe. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  20. [20]
    "Helloandover Whitepages". Archived from the original on April 14, 2016.
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