Dr. Dariush Divsalar
Principal Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology
Dr. Dariush Divsalar is a principal scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif. He joined JPL after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1978. At JPL, he has worked on developing state-of-the-art technology for advanced deep space communications systems and future NASA space exploration, as well as mobile and satellite communications. From 1986 to 2001, he taught graduate courses in digital communications, spread spectrum communications and coding at UCLA and Caltech. He has published more than 150 papers, co-authored a book entitled “An Introduction to Trellis Coded Modulation with Applications” (New York: MacMillan, 1991), contributed to two other books, and holds 10 U.S. patents in the above areas.
He is the co-recipient of the 1986 Prize Paper Award in Communications for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Recently, one of his papers was selected as one of the key research papers published by the IEEE Communications Society during the past five decades. He has received more than 30 NASA Tech Brief awards and a NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal in 1996. He served as Editor and Area Editor in Coding and Communication Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1989 to 1996. He became a Fellow of IEEE in 1997 for contributions to the analysis and design of coding and modulation techniques for satellite, mobile and deep-space communication systems.