Besma Smida

Professor, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact

Building & Room:: 1035 SEO
Address:: 851 S. Morgan St, MC 154, Chicago, IL 60607
Office Phone:: 312.996.0514

Email:

smida@uic.edu

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About

Besma Smida is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. Previously, she held faculty appointments at Purdue University Northwest and Harvard University. Her research advances the frontiers of wireless communications.

Prof. Smida served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society from 2021 to 2023. Her contributions have received international recognition: she was featured in the IEEE Communications Society’s Women in Engineering in Communications series and named one of the “100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G.” She was also recognized by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine as one of its “100 Inspiring Women in STEM” in 2015. Her additional honors include the Governor General of Canada’s Academic Gold Medal (2007), the NSF CAREER Award (2015), and the IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award (2021).

Notable Honors

2015, NSF-CAREER: Full-duplex wireless networks by means of reflected power: Theory and applications, National Science Foundation

2023-2024, "100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G", IEEE Communications Society

2015, "100 Inspiring Women in STEM", INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine

2010-2013, Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering, Chicago Section

2007, Academic Gold Medal, Governor General of Canada

Education

Postdoctoral, Harvard University, 2006 to 2008
Ph.D., University of Quebec, INRS, 2006