Behtash Babadi Named Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Professor Behtash Babadi

Professor Behtash Babadi has been appointed as the next Associate Chair for Graduate Studies for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He is succeeding the position from Professor Sennur Ulukus who is the newly appointed Department Chair.

Babadi holds joint appointments with ECE and the Institute for Systems Research, and is an affiliate faculty member with the Brain and Behavior Institute.  He received his Ph.D. and M.SC. Degrees in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University.  He joined ECE in 2014 after post-doctoral work at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.  His research interests include statistical and adaptive signal processing, neural signal processing, and systems neuroscience. 

In addition, Bababi has been honored with the E. Robert Kent Teaching Award for Junior Faculty, a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, and a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Fellowship from Harvard University.

Current Headlines

Smooth Sailing: MATRIX Dives Into Ship Inspecting

UMD Lauded at DARPA Lift Challenge

UMD ECE Team Launches $1.8M DARPA Project to Make AI Energy-Aware

UMD Joins NSF's $400M AI Nanofabrication Initiative

Two Patents Awarded to UMD Researchers

New Speech Model Reads Mouth Movement Across Languages

ISR/ECE Team Earns Best Presentation Award at IEEE PEASA

Securing Edge Devices for the Post-Quantum Era

University System of Maryland and NASA Sign Five-Year Space Act Agreement to Advance Student Innovation in Space Exploration

New Graduate Program Teaches Real-World Autonomy Skills