Dina KatabiMIT Professor, Co-Founder of Emerald Innovations
Dr Dina Katabi holds the Thuan and Nicole Pham Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and serves as the Director of the Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing. She is also the President and Co-Founder of Emerald Innovations, Inc., where she spearheads advancements in digital health through cutting-edge wireless biosensing and applied machine learning. A recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, Dr. Katabi is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
After earning her B.S. from Damascus University, Dr. Katabi completed both her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees at MIT. Her significant contributions to the field have been honored with numerous awards including the ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, the ACM Prize in Computing, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, and two ACM SIGCOMM and one ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Awards. She has also received the Sloan Research Fellowship, the NBX Career Development Chair, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Dr. Katabi’s leadership is further highlighted by her receipt of three honorary degrees from the Catholic University of America, the American University of Beirut, and the American University of Cairo. Her mentorship has been instrumental in guiding students to win the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in computer science twice. Her work has also garnered the IEEE William R. Bennett Best Paper Prize, three ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper awards, an NSDI Best Paper award, and a TR10 award, recognizing her influential contributions to technology and computer science.