Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
- Title
- Professor Emeritus
- Division Baskin School of Engineering
- Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Phone 650-530-0259
- Office Location
- Engineering Building 2, 241B
- Office Hours Contact by email
- Mail Stop SOE2
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Electrical Engineering, Science and Technology, Statistics
Summary of Expertise
An internationally known expert in statistical signal processing theory: detection, estimation, filtering; algorithm development and performance analysis. Extensive experience in applications of statistical signal processing to various engineering problems, including:
- Digital communications
- Wireless communications
- Antenna and sensor arrays
- Direction finding and Geo-location
- Radar and sonar systems
Research Interests
- Digital communications
- Wireless communications
- Array processing
- Geolocation
- Statistical signal processing
Biography, Education and Training
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1976.
M.S. Statistics, Stanford University, 1976.
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1972.
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1968.
Honors and Professional Activities
IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000).
Technical Achievement Award, Signal Processing Society (1989).
Fellow of the IEEE (1987).
Best Paper of the Year Award, EURASIP (1985).
ASSP Senior Award, IEEE ASSP Society (1983).
Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
General Chair, Asilomar Conference, and Computers, 2002.
Editorial board, Int'l Journal Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.
Technical Program Chair, Asilomar Conference, 1994.
Vice Chairman of the Bay Area Chapter of the ASSP Society, 1989 - 1993.
Administrative Committee and of the Technical Committee
on Estimation and Modeling of the Signal Processing Society, 1985 - 1993.
Associate editor of the IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, 1983.
Professional Experience
UC Santa Cruz, Professor of Electrical Engineering
UC Davis, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1989-1999.
Signal Processing Technology, Ltd., President, 1988 - 1999.
Saxpy Computer Corporation, Director of Advanced Technology, 1985-1988.
Systems Control Tech., Manager Advanced Technology Division, 1976-1985.
Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Research Assistant
1973-1976, Lecturer and consultant 1976-1982.
MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, Vancouver, Design Engineer, 1973.
Israel Aircraft Industries, Consultant, 1972.
Electronic Research Department, M.O.D, Israel, Group Leader, 1968-1972.
Publications
Approximately 500 publications can be found on GoogleScholar and other on-line data bases.
