Saleem A. Kassam (S'74-M'76-SM'83) was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, on June 16, 1949. He received the B.S. degree in engineering (with distinction) from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, in 1972, the M.S.E. and M.A. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1974, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1975.He has been with the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1975, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests have been in the areas of signal processing and communication theory, and he has made contributions specifically in signal detection, quantization, robust signal processing, spectrum estimation, image processing, and spatial array processing. He is actively engaged in research in these areas, as well as in microwave imaging and ultrasonic imaging, and also acts as a consultant to industry. He is the coeditor of a book, Nonparametric Detection: Theory and Applications (with J. B. Thomas, 1980) and author of Signal Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise (Springer-Verlag, 1987).
Dr. Kassam is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.