Ali H. Sayed

Ali H. Sayed (born Sao Paulo, Brazil) is Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches and conducts research on Adaptation, Learning,Statistical Signal Processing, and Signal Processing for Communications. He is the Director of the UCLA Adaptive Systems Laboratory [http://asl.ee.ucla.edu/] . He has authored several books on estimation and filtering theories, including the book "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 from Stanford University in 1992.

Awards and Honors

* Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (2005),
* IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2005),
* Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science [http://www.kfas.org/] (2003),
* Fellow, IEEE (2001).

His papers have received several awards:
* 2005 Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society,
* 2002 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society,
* 1996 IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award.He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2003-2005) and the EURASIP [http://www.eurasip.org/default97cd.html?page=s9_4] Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2006-2007).

Books

* Ali H. Sayed, Adaptive Filters, Wiley, NJ, 2008 [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470253886.html] (ISBN 978-0-470-25388-5).
* Ali H. Sayed, Fundamentals of Adaptive Filtering, Wiley, NJ, 2003 [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471461261.html] (ISBN 0-471-46126-1).
* Thomas Kailath, Ali H. Sayed, and Babak Hassibi, Linear Estimation, Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2000 [http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0130224642,00.html] (ISBN 978-0130224644).
* Thomas Kailath and Ali H. Sayed, editors, Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999 [http://202.38.126.65/mirror/www.siam.org/catalog/mcc01/ot67.htm] (ISBN 0898714311).
* Babak Hassibi, Ali H. Sayed, and Thomas Kailath, Indefinite Quadratic Estimation and Control: A Unified Approach to H2 and Hoo Theories, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999 [http://www.ec-securehost.com/SIAM/AM16.html] ,(ISBN 978-0898714111).

External links

* [http://asl.ee.ucla.edu/ UCLA Adaptive Systems Laboratory homepage]
* [http://www.ee.ucla.edu/ UCLA Electrical Engineering Department homepage]

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