Yasamin Mostofi Associate Professor Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560 Postdoctoral scholar, Caltech, 2004-2006 Ph.D., Stanford University, January 2004 M.S., Stanford University, 1999 B.S., Sharif University of Technology, 1997

Curriculum Vitae
Email: ymostofi [at] ece [dot] ucsb [dot] edu

Openings in Dr. Mostofi's Group for Graduate Students/Post-docs

I am looking for new graduate students/post-docs to start working with me immediately at UC Santa Barbara. The ECE department at UCSB is one of the best in the nation, ranked #4 by the National Research Council and #16 by the US News and World Report (#9 among public universities). The department has 11 National Academy faculty, 25 IEEE Fellows, and one Nobel Prize winner, and many of our Ph.D. graduates go on to take faculty positions at universities in the top 30. Santa Barbara area is also a great place to live.

Successful graduate applicants will typically have one or more first-author journal publications. If you are interested, please look through my publications and send me an email. Please summarize your background in the body of the email as much as possible. Thanks for your interest.

Check Out Our Sample Recent Publications (see Publications for the whole list)

• On Wireless-based See-through Obstacle Mapping and Tomography in Robotic Networks:

  • Y. Mostofi, "Cooperative Wireless-Based Obstacle/Object Mapping and See-Through Capabilities in Robotic Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Jan. 2012.
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• On Communication-Aware Sensing and Path Planning in Robotic Networks:

  • Y. Yan and Y. Mostofi, "Co-Optimization of Communication and Motion Planning of a Robotic Operation under Resource Constraints and in Fading Environments," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2013.[pdf]
  • A. Ghaffarkhah and Y. Mostofi, "Dynamic Networked Coverage of Time-Varying Environments in the Presence of Fading Communication Channels," accepted with minor revision, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2013.[pdf]
  • Y. Yan and Y. Mostofi, "Robotic Router Formation in Realistic Communication Environments," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 810-827, August 2012.[pdf]

• On Understanding the Spatial Predictability of Wireless Channels:

  • M. Malmirchegini and Y. Mostofi, "On the Spatial Predictability of Communication Channels," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.11, no.3, pp. 964-978, March 2012.[pdf]

Awards

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Group Photo with President Obama, Award Photo, October 2011
  
  
• IEEE 2012 Outstanding Engineer Award of Region 6, Sept. 22, 2012 article
  

  • This award is given annually to one scientist or engineer in Region 6. Region 6 covers all the western United States, including California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Hawaii, parts of New Mexico, and parts of Wyoming.
  
  
  

• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, 2009
  
  
• IEEE 2012 Outstanding Engineer Award of Albuquerque
  
  
• 2008-2009 ECE Distinguished Researcher Award, Univ. of New Mexico
  
  
• Recipient of Bellcore fellow-advisor award, Stanford University, 1999

Selected News

• UCSB Professor Yasamin Mostofi receives the 2012 IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award, Sept. 22, 2012, article

• President Obama names the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Sept. 26, 2011 Press Release

• Dr. Mostofi's lab featured on the KNME (New Mexico PBS) premiere of "Connect", which showcases great ideas in science, medicine, arts, and history, Jan. 19 2012

• Dr. Mostofi's accomplishments become the number one UNM news of 2011 according to UNM's Communications and Marketing Department article

• President Schmidly, the President of UNM, recognizes Professor Mostofi for her research accomplishments in the Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 13, 2011

• IEEE Control Systems Magazine's interview with Dr. Mostofi, June 2010 article

• Research group highlighted in the UNM Engineering Magazine, Spring 2008 article

Funded Projects

• Total amount granted as PI to date (excludes the amount received as co-PI): $1,850,000
  
  
• Total amount granted as PI/Co-PI to date: $2,240,000
  
  
• NSF CAREER, "Compressive Cooperative Sensing and Navigation in Mobile Networks," June 2009-June 2014, Amount: $400,000
  
  
• NSF, "An Integrative Framework for Communication and Motion-planning in Robotic Networks Operating in Fading Environments," PI, Sept. 2008 - Sept. 2011, Amount: $350,000
  
  
• ARO Collaborative Technology Alliance, "Autonomous Multifunctional Mobile Microsystems," multi-University project (lead university: UPenn), May 2008 - May 2013, Amount: $1,100,000
  
  
• DTRA, "Robust Functionality and Active Data Management in Cooperative Networks," Sept. 2008 - July 2011 (PI: Majeed Hayat)
  
  
• DTRA, "Modeling and Mitigating Cascading Failures in Coupled Distributed Power Grid and Communication Networks," Aug. 2010 - March 2012, (PI: Majeed Hayat)

Research

Dr. Mostofi's current research is multi-disciplinary and lies at the intersection of the two areas of communications and control/robotics in mobile sensor networks. With a Ph.D. in wireless communications and a postdoctoral experience in control and dynamical systems, the current work of her research lab tightly integrates the two areas. Current research thrusts of her lab include:

1. Communication-Aware Motion-Planning in Robotic Networks

2. Co-optimization of Motion and Communication under Resource Constraints

3. Compressive and Cooperative Sensing and Navigation in Mobile Networks

4. Cooperative Robotic Obstacle/Object Mapping, Tomography, and See-through Capabilities using Sparse Wireless Measurements

5. Robotic Router Formation and Optimization in Realistic Communication Environments

6. Understanding Wireless Channel Spatial Predictability

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Sample Group Pictures

Research Group

Current Students:

• Ph.D. students:

  • Yuan Yan

Former students:

• Alumni of Mostofi's Lab:

  Alireza Ghaffarkhah. Ph.D. Sept. 2012, now at Google
  
  

  Mehrzad MalmirChegini, Ph.D., Oct. 2012, now at Qualcomm
  
  

  Alejandro Gonzalez-Ruiz, Ph.D. Nov. 2012, now at Mobile Communication Professionals
  
  

  Shwan Ashrafi, M.S. 2012
  
  

  Alejandro Gonzalez-Ruiz, M.S. 2009
  
  Thesis title: Distributed Load Balancing over Directed Network Topologies
  
  

  Leanne Storey, M.S. 2007, now at Sandia National Labs
  Thesis title: Effects of Fading Channels on Motion Planning in Mobile Sensor Networks
  
  

• Undergraduates that have worked in my lab:

  Weston Ross (2011), Aman Agarwal (summer 2007, from IIT Madras), Zhenhua Gong and Xuhan Peng (Fall 2006, from Shanghai Jiaotong University), Wenzhuo Ouyang, Xinchen Zhang and Ye Yuan (Fall 2007, from Shanghai Jiaotong University)

Teaching

Wireless Communications

• Spring 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Winter 2013

Introduction to Communication Systems

• Spring 2012

Theory of Linear Systems

• Fall 2008, Fall 2009

Networked Control Systems

• Fall 2007

Hobbies

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