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Zaher Kassas
- Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceSamueli School of EngineeringUC Irvine20182020
- Faculty AssociateITS-IrvineUC Irvine20202021
- Associate ProfessorDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceSamueli School of EngineeringUC Irvine20202022
- ProfessorThe Ohio State University20222023
- TRC Endowed Chair in Intelligent Transportation SystemsThe Ohio State University2023
Zak Kassas (BS, LAU; MS, OSU; MS, PhD, UT-Austin) is an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCI. His research interests include cyber-physical systems, autonomous vehicles, navigation systems, sstimation theory, ntelligent transportation systems, cognitive and software-defined radio, and target tracking. Dr. Kassas is the Director of the CARMEN UTC (2020) focused on issues of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing in transportation systems. Among a number of awards, his most recent is the 2019 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award for his work on “I Hear, Therefore I Know Where I Am: Exploiting Signals of Opportunity for Robust and Accurate Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments. “