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Ali H. Sayed (born Sao Paulo, Brazil, to parents of Lebanese descent) is the dean of engineering at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), where he teaches and conducts research on
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, Learning, Statistical Signal Processing, and Signal Processing for Communications. He is the Director of the EPFL Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has authored several books on estimation and filtering theories, including the textbook ''Adaptive Filters'', published by Wiley & Sons in 2008. Professor Sayed received the degrees of Engineer and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in
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from
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in 1992.


Awards and honors

* Sayed was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for contributions to the theory and applications of adaptive signal processing. *
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from the American Society for Engineering Education (2005). * Distinguished Lecturer of the
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(2005). * Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (2003). * Fellow of the
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(2001). His papers have received several awards: * 2005 Co-author for "Young Author Best Paper Award" of Waleed M. Younis from the
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(together with Naofal Al-Dhahir). * 2002 "Best Paper Award" from the
IEEE Signal Processing Society The IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) is one of the nearly 40 technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the first one created. Its mission is to "advance and disseminate state-of-the-art scien ...
. * 1996
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(together with
Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, i ...
). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2003–2005) and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2006–2007).


Books

* Ali H. Sayed, Adaptive Filters, Wiley, NJ, 2008 (). * Ali H. Sayed, Fundamentals of Adaptive Filtering, Wiley, NJ, 2003 (). *
Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, i ...
, Ali H. Sayed, and Babak Hassibi, Linear Estimation, Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2000 (). *
Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, i ...
and Ali H. Sayed, editors, Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999 (). * Babak Hassibi, Ali H. Sayed, and
Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, i ...
, Indefinite Quadratic Estimation and Control: A Unified Approach to H2 and H∞ Theories, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999,().


External links


UCLA Adaptive Systems Laboratory homepage

UCLA Electrical Engineering Department homepage


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sayed, Ali H. Living people Brazilian emigrants to the United States Brazilian people of Lebanese descent Year of birth missing (living people) People from São Paulo University of São Paulo alumni Stanford University alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne