Dina Katabi PhD

Dina Katabi, PhD, is a Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the director of the MIT's Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (Wireless@MIT). She received her PhD and MS from MIT in 2003 and 1999, respectively, and her bachelor's degree from Damascus University in 1995. Dr. Katabi was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2013. She received the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2013 a Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship in 2011, the IEEE William R. Bennett prize in 2009, a Sloan Fellowship in 2006, the NBX Career Development Chair in 2006, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award in 2005 and the TR10 award for Technology Review Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies.

Dr. Katabi's doctoral dissertation won an ACM Honorable Mention award and a George M. Sprowls award for academic excellence. She also received multiple best-paper awards from ACM SIGCOMM and the Usenix (the Advanced Computing Systems Association) Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI). Two start-up companies -- PiCharging and Emerald -- are developing technology based on Dr. Katabi's research. Emerald was presented to then-President Barack Obama at the White House.