UCSB Engineering

Sanjit Mitra

Research Professor

Contacts

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560

tel: (805) 893-3957
fax: (805) 893-3262
mitra@ece.ucsb.edu

Biography

From June 1962 to June 1965, he was at the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was with Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, from June 1965 to January 1967. He has been on the faculty at the University of California since then, first at the Davis campus and since 1977 at the Santa Barbara campus as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he served as Chairman of the Department from July 1979 to June 1982. He has published over 640 papers in analog and digital signal processing, and image processing, twelve books, and holds five patents. He served as the President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1986. Dr. Mitra is the recipient of the 1973 F.E. Terman Award and the 1985 AT&T Founda-tion Award of the American Society of Engineering Education, the 1989 Education Award, and the 2000 Mac Van Valkenburg Society Award of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society, the Dis-tinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany in 1989, the 1996 Technical Achievement Award, the 2001 Society Award and the 2006 Education Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award of the IEEE Education Society in 2001, the 2002 Technical Achievement Award of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), the 2005 SPIE Technical Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering, and the 2005 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal. He is the co-recipient of the 2000 Blumlein-Browne-Willans Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London) and the 2001 IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award. He is an Honorary Professor of the Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He has been appointed an Honorary Citizen of Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2005. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an Academician of the Academy of Finland, a member of the Norwegian Academy for Technical Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico, and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, India. Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.