Soosan Beheshti

Soosan Beheshti is a Professor and Program Director in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a B.S. from Isfahan University of Technology and M.S./Ph.D. from MIT. Her research focuses on signal processing, statistical learning, and information theory, with applications in biomedical systems, data denoising, and system modeling. She has received awards such as the Dean's Teaching Award (2010) and the EECS Carlton E. Tucker Award (1998).

Education:

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology (1996)
• M.S. & Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, MIT (2002)

Research Interests:

• Statistical Signal Processing
• Information Theory
• Data Denoising & Compression
• System Modeling & Control
• Machine Learning Applications

Awards:

• Dean's Teaching Award (2010)
• Gold Paper Award (PacRim 2009)
• Best Paper Award (Remote Sensing 2008)
• MIT Teaching Excellence Award (1998)

Teaching: Courses include Signals and Systems, Control Systems, and Statistical Inference. She has supervised numerous graduate students and postdocs in her Signal and Information Processing (SIP) Lab.

Labs/Teams: Director of the SIP Lab, conducting research in signal processing, information theory, and biomedical applications. Collaborates with industry partners like Myant Inc. and Huawei Technologies.