Hamid Nawab

Nawab is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering^[3] (AIMBE) for contributions^[4] to the analysis of complex biosignals from speech, auditory, and neuromuscular systems.^[3]

Key journal articles written by Nawab include "Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals",^[5] "Decomposition of Surface EMG Signals",^[6][7] "Approximate Signal Processing",^[8] "Direction Determination of Wideband Signals"^[9] (winner of the 1988 Paper Award ^[10] from IEEE Signal Processing Society in the Multidimensional Signal Processing category), and "Signal Reconstruction from Short-time Fourier Transform Magnitude".^[11]

Among his other major written works is the book Symbolic and Knowledge-Based Signal Processing^[12] at the intersection of signal processing and artificial intelligence research, as well as the textbook Signals and Systems^[13] that he co-authored with Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky. The textbook has been adopted around the world with its international edition^[14] and its Chinese edition.^[15]

Nawab is currently a tenured full professor at Boston University,^[16] where he has earned five teaching awards, including the university-wide Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.^[17] He has held visiting professorships in Electrical Engineering at MIT (1994–95)^[18] and in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1989–90).^[19]

Nawab is also Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Yobe Inc.^[20]

Nawab is a Pakistani-American. He currently lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with his wife and son.^[21] He has lived in the Greater Boston area since 1974 when he first arrived in the US to attend college.