babak hassibi persian born in tehran iran is an iranianamerican electrical engineer who is the gordon m binderamgen professor of electrical engineering and head of the department of electrical engineering at the california institute of technology caltechhe received the bs degree in electrical engineering from the university of tehran in 1989 and the ms and phd degrees in electrical engineering from stanford university in 1993 and 1996 respectively at stanford his adviser was thomas kailath he was a research associate in the information systems laboratory at stanford university during 199798 and was a member of the technical staff in the mathematics of communications research group at bell laboratories in 19982000 since 2001 he has been at caltechhis research is broadly in the areas of communications signal processing and control among other works he has shown the hinfinityoptimality of the least mean squares filter used grouptheoretic techniques to design spacetime codes and frames and to study entropic vectors performed informationtheoretic studies of various wireless networks such as determining the capacity of the mimo wiretap channel constructed tree codes for interactive communication and control developed various algorithms and performance analyses for compressed sensing and structured signal recovery studied epidemic spread in complex networks and coinvented realtime dna microarrays he has supervised over 25 phd students and postdoctoral scholars who have moved on to various positions in academia industry and financehe is the recipient of the 2003 presidential early career award for scientists and engineers pecase the 2003 david and lucille packard fellowship for science and engineering the okawa foundation research grant in information sciences in 2002 and the national science foundation career award in 2002 he has coauthored 2 books 18 book chapters over 300 peerreviewed journal and conference papers and 13 us patents he is a isi highly cited author in computer science and is on the scientific advisory boards of insilixia inc emerald logic inc and shanghaitech universitys school of information science and technologyhis grandfather was the late kazem hassibi iranian academic parliamentarian national front leader and oil adviser to mohammad mosaddegh during irans oil nationalization