Bio: Anant Sahai (BS '94 UC Berkeley, MS '96 MIT, PhD '01 MIT) joined
the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley in 2002 and has
been there ever since. He is a member of the Berkeley Wireless Research
Center (BWRC) and the Wireless Foundations Center (WiFo). In 2001, he
spent a year at the wireless startup Enuvis developing adaptive signal
processing algorithms for extremely sensitive GPS receivers implemented
using software defined radio.
Currently, his research interests are in wireless communication,
distributed control, and information theory. Information-theoretically,
he is particularly interested in building bridges to new problems like
those from distributed control and understanding power consumption. On
the wireless communication side, his interests extend beyond information
theory to encompass the holistic dimensions of spectrum sharing and
cognitive radio --- from signal processing through the economic and
policy sides to the problem.