Pam Cosman

Pam Cosman is Co-Director of CRG-STEMM and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego.  In May of 2017, Dr. Cosman won a Pinnacle Award from Athena, a San Diego group championing women executives and managers in STEM fields. Dr. Cosman was awarded the UC San Diego Affirmative Action award in 2016 for her work to promote equity and diversity on campus.

Dr. Cosman is the author of over 150 papers and book chapters in the areas of image/video compression, image quality evaluation,and biomedical image processing.She joined UCSD in July 1995. She obtained her B.S. with Honor in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1987, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. She was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota during 1993-1995. Since 1995, she has been with the faculty of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSD, where she is currently a Professor. She was the Director of the Center for Wireless Communications from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Cosman is the recipient of the ECE Departmental Graduate Teaching Award, a Career Award from the National Science Foundation, a Powell Faculty Fellowship, and a Globecom 2008 Best Paper Award. She was the Editor-in-Chief (2006-2009) of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and an associate editor of several other journals. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, and a Fellow of the IEEE.