Rabab Kreidieh Ward
Biography
Rabab Kreidieh Ward’s career includes many firsts. Her research has focused on finding solutions to real-world problems through innovative signal-processing techniques. Among her many accomplishments, she developed a system that determines the stress level of babies from their cry signal that aids both nurses and deaf parents. She created a method of detecting cancer malignancy from mammograms a year earlier than what previously existed, a critical advance in the fight against the disease. Ward pioneered “self-paced” brain-computer interfaces that analyze the EEG signals collected by non-invasive head surface electrodes and created signal processing algorithms that shorten the time spent in an MRI machine.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Ward is a professor emeritus in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
