Yasamin Mostofi
Yasamin Mostofi is an Iranian-American Scientist and a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Yasamin’s research is multi-disciplinary, expanding wireless communications, sensing, and control/robotics.
Education and career
Yasamin got her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2004 respectively. She is a major contributor to two research areas:- RF Sensing, such as sensing and learning about the environment with WiFi signals. In 2009, Yasamin Showed it possible to image details of objects with WiFi signals. Since then her work has contributed to this area by showing how WiFi signals can be used for different through-wall sensing applications, such as occupancy analytics, person identification, activity recognition, localization/tracking and 3D Xray vision for drones.
- Communication-Aware, Path Planning, and Control
Selected honors/awards
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineer from President Obama, 2011.
- IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, 2016 Yasamin is the first woman to receive this award.
- IEEE Fellow, 2020 for contributions to control and communications co-optimization in mobile sensor networks
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, 2009