Education
Katabi received a bachelor"s degree from the University of Damascus in 1995 and South.M and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2003 respectively.
Katabi received a bachelor"s degree from the University of Damascus in 1995 and South.M and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2003 respectively.
In 2003, Katabi joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she currently holds the title of Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is the co-director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing and a principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
In 2013, Katabi won the Grace Murray Hopper Award, recognizing her as the outstanding young computer science professional. In 2012, her work on Sparse Fourier Transforms was chosen as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year by Technology Review. In September 2013, Katabi was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her work. In 2013 she also became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2014, on the celebration of Project Mac"s 50th anniversary, her work on X-ray vision was chosen as one the "50 ways that Massachusetts Institute of Technology has transformed computer science".
