Ali H. Sayed
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Ali H. Sayed is Professor of Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 at the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 (UCLA), where he teaches and conducts research on Adaptation
Adaptation
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, Learning, Statistical Signal Processing
Statistical signal processing
Statistical signal processing is an area of Applied Mathematics and Signal Processing that treats signals as stochastic processes, dealing with their statistical properties...

, and Signal Processing for Communications. He is the Director of the UCLA Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has authored several books on estimation and filtering theories, including the textbook 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
University of São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...

, Brazil, in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 from Stanford University
Stanford University
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 in 1992.

Awards and honors

  • Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education
    American Society for Engineering Education
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     (2005).
  • Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
    IEEE Signal Processing Society
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     (2005).
  • Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (2003).
  • Fellow
    IEEE Fellow
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     of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...

     (2001).


His papers have received several awards:
  • 2005 Co-author for "Young Author Best Paper Award" of Waleed M. Younis from the IEEE Signal Processing Society
    IEEE Signal Processing Society
    The IEEE Signal Processing Society is a society of the IEEE. It is also known by the acronym IEEE SPS. In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Signal Processing Society is one of close to 40 technical societies organized under the IEEE's Technical Activities Board...

     (together with Naofal Al-Dhahir).
  • 2002 "Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Signal Processing Society
    IEEE Signal Processing Society
    The IEEE Signal Processing Society is a society of the IEEE. It is also known by the acronym IEEE SPS. In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Signal Processing Society is one of close to 40 technical societies organized under the IEEE's Technical Activities Board...

    .
  • 1996 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award (together with Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...

    ).

He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2003–2005) and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2006–2007).

Books

  • Ali H. Sayed, Adaptive Filters, Wiley, NJ, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-470-25388-5).
  • Ali H. Sayed, Fundamentals of Adaptive Filtering, Wiley, NJ, 2003 (ISBN 0-471-46126-1).
  • Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...

    , Ali H. Sayed, and Babak Hassibi
    Babak Hassibi
    Babak Hassibi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer who is currently professor of Electrical Engineering and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology ....

    , Linear Estimation, Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2000 (ISBN 978-0-13-022464-4).
  • Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...

     and Ali H. Sayed, editors, Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999 (ISBN 0-89871-431-1).
  • Babak Hassibi
    Babak Hassibi
    Babak Hassibi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer who is currently professor of Electrical Engineering and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology ....

    , Ali H. Sayed, and Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...

    , Indefinite Quadratic Estimation and Control: A Unified Approach to H2 and H Theories, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999,(ISBN 978-0-89871-411-1).

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