Ali Akansu

Ali N. Akansu has made pioneering research contributions on the theory and applications of subband and wavelet transforms. He showed in 1989 that Binomial Quadrature Mirror Filter Bank, Binomial-QMF, is identical to the celebrated Daubechies wavelet filters and evaluated its performance from a discrete-time signal processing perspective. He co-organized [http://web.njit.edu/~ali/s1.htm the first Wavelets conference in the United States] in April 1990 and co-authored the first wavelets related engineering book published in the literature, "Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands and Wavelets." He co-edited the volumes entitled "Subband and Wavelet Transforms: Design and Applications" and "Wavelet, Subband and Block Transforms in Communications and Multimedia." He is also a co-author of the research monograph "Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content Security in Digital Multimedia." He was the Lead Guest Editor of two special issues of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing on Theory and Application of Filter Banks and Wavelet Transforms (April 1998), and on Signal Processing for Data Hiding in Digital Media & Secure Content Delivery (June 2003).

Ali N. Akansu was a Founding Director of the New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research (NJCMR) between 1996-2000, and NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Digital Video between 1998-2000.

Ali N. Akansu was the Vice President for Research & Development of the IDT Corporation between June 2000 and September 2001. He was the founding President & CEO of PixWave, Inc. (an IDT subsidiary), that has built the technology for secure peer-to-peer video distribution over the Internet including first real-time video watermarking and fingerprinting engines in the field under IDT Media that span-off IDT Entertainment sold to Liberty Media in 2006. He sits on the boards of directors of a few companies and an investment fund on CleanTech. He was an academic visitor at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and at Marconi Electronic Systems.

Ali N. Akansu received his B.S. degree from the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 1980, his M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, in 1983 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1987, he has been with the New Jersey Institute of Technology where he is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Ali N. Akansu is an IEEE Fellow with the citation "for contributions to optimal design of transforms and filter banks for communications and multimedia security."

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External links

* [http://web.njit.edu/~ali/ Ali Akansu's home page]
* [http://web.njit.edu/~ali/s1.htm 1st NJIT Symposium on Wavelets (April 30, 1990) (First Wavelets Conference in USA)]
* [http://web.njit.edu/~ali/NJITSYMP1990/AkansuNJIT1STWAVELETSSYMPAPRIL301990.pdf Binomial-QMF Daubechies Wavelets]
* [http://web.njit.edu/~ali/sym.htm NJIT Symposia on Subbands and Wavelets 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997]
* [http://www.idt.net/about/press/story.aspx?id=15601 Liberty Media to Acquire IDT Entertainment]