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
Adaptation
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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
electrical engineering
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from
Stanford University
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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.
*
Frederick Emmons Terman Award
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from the
American Society for Engineering Education (2005).
* Distinguished Lecturer of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society
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(2005).
* Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences from the
Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (2003).
*
Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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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
IEEE Signal Processing Society
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Its mission is to "advance and disseminate state-of-the-art scien ...
(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
IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award
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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 H
2 and H
∞ Theories, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999,
().
External links
UCLA Adaptive Systems Laboratory homepageUCLA Electrical Engineering Department homepage
References
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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