Sarah Kate (Katie) Wilson is an American electrical engineer focusing on communications, including channel estimation for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing[1] and optical wireless communications[2] She is a professor emerita in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University in California.
[3] Wilson majored in mathematics at Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1979.
After several years alternating between industry work and academic research in Sweden and California,[3] she joined the faculty at Santa Clara University in 2006.
[3] Wilson was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2014, "for contributions to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing".
[6] She was the 2017 recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications,[7] and the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Education Society Harriett B. Rigas Award,[4] "for excellence and outstanding leadership in signal processing, education, and mentoring".