Saleem Kassam: Solomon and Sylvia Charp Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvannia

Saleem A. Kassam was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. He received the B.S. degree in engineering from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, in 1972, the M.S.E. and M.A. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1974, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1975.

He has been with the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, since 1975, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests have been in the areas of statistical signal processing and communication theory, and he has made contributions in signal detection, quantization, robust signal processing, spectrum estimation, image processing, and spatial array processing. He is actively engaged in research in these areas as well as in microwave and ultrasound imaging, and is a consultant to industry.

Dr. Kassam is the co-editor of the book, Nonparametric Detection: Theory and Applications (with J. B. Thomas, 1980) and author of Signal Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise (Springer Verlag, 1988). Dr. Kassam is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.

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