Mathini Sellathurai | Professor
Heriot-Watt University

Mathini Sellathurai (IEEE Fellow)  is currently a professor of signal processing and wireless communications and Dean of Science and Engineering with Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. She has been active in signal processing research for the past 20 years and has a strong international track record in wireless communications. She held visiting positions with Bell-Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA, and at the Canadian Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. She has published over 250 peer reviewed papers in leading international journals and conferences, given invited talks and has written several book chapters as well as two research monographs. Her present research includes machine learning and statistical signal processing techniques applied to wireless communications, radar, assistive care, robotics and hearing aids. She is a recipient of an IEEE Communication Society WIE mentorship award (2022),  Fred W. Ellersick Best Paper Award (2005), the Industry Canada Public Service Awards for contributions to Science and Technology (2005), and Awards for contributions to Technology Transfers to Industry (2004). She was the recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Award for her Ph.D. dissertation in 2002. She was an Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING from 2009 to 2018, the General Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (2016) in Edinburgh, and a member for IEEE SPCOM Technical Strategy Committee from 2014 to 2019.   Presently she is a member of  IEEE History Committee and Strategic Advisory Board of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, for Information and Communications Technologies.