Babak Hassibi is co-founder and CEO of PrismML and the Mose and Lilian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech. He also co-founded Neural Propulsion Systems, where he is chief technologist. His research spans communications, control, signal processing, and machine learning. Before joining Caltech in 2001, he worked at Bell Labs and Stanford. He earned his BS in electrical engineering at the University of Tehran and his MS and PhD at Stanford.