Sabera Kazi

Currently serving as a Staff Scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, Sabera Kazi has extensive experience in electrical engineering, developing and analyzing wireless network activities, and designing a wide range of algorithms and systems.

Sabera Kazi attended the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and graduated in May 1992 when with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude. Following her passion for technical work, Ms. Kazi then enrolled at the University of Minnesota where she earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in August 1995.

She wrote her Master's thesis, entitled Variable Length to Variable Length Lossless Source Coding, under the guidance of her advisor, Professor John Kieffer. Sabera Kazi went on to complete her PhD at the University of Minnesota. Graduating in 1999, she composed a thesis called Turbo and Convolutionally Coded Adaptive CDMA Receiver with her advisor, Professor Lori Lucke.

While still completing her PhD, Sabera Kazi accepted a position as a Senior Research Scientist at Honeywell Laboratories in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1997 to 2004, Ms. Kazi managed a wireless cross-functional team and also handled business development in her department. As a scientist, she developed a low power, low cost, hand-held display unit providing airborne weather information for the pilots of small aircraft.

In April 2004, she left Honeywell to become a Modeling and Systems Architect for CeLight Inc., where she remained until 2006, when she joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as a Senior Staff Scientist. In 2007, Sabera Kazi accepted a position on a project at Fastrack Design, Inc. in San Jose, California, as a Senior Staff Engineer. She has also worked as a Senior Communications Systems Analyst at S5 Wireless, Inc.

An active athlete and outdoors person, Sabera Kazi enjoys spinning and hiking and spends time outside every day, no matter the weather. She also loves cooking as well as tasting new fine wines around the world.