O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) by Carl Orff Prof. Ali N. Akansu New Jersey Institute of Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University Heights Newark, NJ 07102 USA Skype: akansu1111 Direct: (908) 601-2622 Phone: (973) 596-5650 Fax: (973) 596-5680 Email: akansu@njit.edu Ali N. Akansu received the B.S. degree from the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, in 1980, the 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 and Computer Engineering. He 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. Dr. Akansu spearheaded the National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education at NJIT in 2003 and led it until October 2005. He has been the Area Coordinator of the Communications, Signal Processing and Microwaves Area of ECE Department since January 2008. He has served on the Governing Board of the Professional Staff Association (PSA) at NJIT (2006-2008). He is currently representing ECE Department at NJIT Faculty Council (2008-2011). Dr. Akansu will be at Courant-NYU starting June 2009 as a Visiting Professor performing research on Quantitative Finance. Dr. Akansu was the Vice President for Research and Development of IDT Corporation [NYSE:IDT] between June 2000-September 2001. He was the founding President and CEO of PixWave, Inc., and Senior VP for Technology Development of TV.TV (IDT subsidiaries). He has sit on the boards of a few companies and an investment fund. He was an academic visitor at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and at GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems Corp. during the summers of 1989 and 1996, and 1992, respectively. He regularly consults to the industry and legal sector. His current research interests include signal and transform theories, and applications in financial engineering, next generation Internet, wireless OFDM/CDMA communications and RF engineering. Dr. Akansu has published numerous articles and books, gave many invited talks and tutorials, guided Ph.D. dissertations. He is a co-author (with R.A. Haddad) of the book Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands and Wavelets, Academic Press, 1992 and 2001 (2nd Ed.), and a co-editor (with M.J.T. Smith) of a book entitled Subband and Wavelet Transforms: Design and Applications, Kluwer, 1996. He is a co-editor of the book (with M.J. Medley) Wavelet, Subband and Block Transforms in Communications and Multimedia, Kluwer, 1999. He is also a co-author of a research monograph (with H.T. Sencar and M. Ramkumar) Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content Security in Digital Multimedia, Elsevier-Academic Press, 2004. Dr. Akansu administered and managed a number of research programs and product development projects in academia and private sector, funded by the State & Federal Government agencies, and industry. Dr. Akansu is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He has also served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, as a member of the Signal Processing Theory & Methods, and Multimedia Signal Processing technical committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He organized the first Wavelets Conference in the United States in April 1990. He was the technical program chairman of IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop 1996, Loen, Norway. He served as a member of the Steering Committee and the Publications Chair of IEEE ICASSP 2000, Istanbul, Turkey. He was the Lead Guest Editor of two special issues of IEEE Trans. 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 and Secure Content Delivery (June 2003). To explore further, click on links below. RESEARCH INTERESTS GENERALIZED DFT (GDFT) NJIT SYMPOSIA ON WAVELETS AND SUBBANDS 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997 THESIS STUDENTS & VISITING SCHOLARS GRADUATE COURSES BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS SAMPLE JOURNAL PAPERS SAMPLE CONFERENCE PAPERS PATENTS INTERESTING LINKS COURSES CONTACT
Prof. Ali N. Akansu
New Jersey Institute of Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University Heights Newark, NJ 07102 USA
Skype: akansu1111 Direct: (908) 601-2622 Phone: (973) 596-5650 Fax: (973) 596-5680 Email: akansu@njit.edu
Ali N. Akansu received the B.S. degree from the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, in 1980, the 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 and Computer Engineering. He 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. Dr. Akansu spearheaded the National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education at NJIT in 2003 and led it until October 2005. He has been the Area Coordinator of the Communications, Signal Processing and Microwaves Area of ECE Department since January 2008. He has served on the Governing Board of the Professional Staff Association (PSA) at NJIT (2006-2008). He is currently representing ECE Department at NJIT Faculty Council (2008-2011). Dr. Akansu will be at Courant-NYU starting June 2009 as a Visiting Professor performing research on Quantitative Finance.
Dr. Akansu was the Vice President for Research and Development of IDT Corporation [NYSE:IDT] between June 2000-September 2001. He was the founding President and CEO of PixWave, Inc., and Senior VP for Technology Development of TV.TV (IDT subsidiaries). He has sit on the boards of a few companies and an investment fund. He was an academic visitor at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and at GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems Corp. during the summers of 1989 and 1996, and 1992, respectively. He regularly consults to the industry and legal sector. His current research interests include signal and transform theories, and applications in financial engineering, next generation Internet, wireless OFDM/CDMA communications and RF engineering.
Dr. Akansu has published numerous articles and books, gave many invited talks and tutorials, guided Ph.D. dissertations. He is a co-author (with R.A. Haddad) of the book Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands and Wavelets, Academic Press, 1992 and 2001 (2nd Ed.), and a co-editor (with M.J.T. Smith) of a book entitled Subband and Wavelet Transforms: Design and Applications, Kluwer, 1996. He is a co-editor of the book (with M.J. Medley) Wavelet, Subband and Block Transforms in Communications and Multimedia, Kluwer, 1999. He is also a co-author of a research monograph (with H.T. Sencar and M. Ramkumar) Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content Security in Digital Multimedia, Elsevier-Academic Press, 2004. Dr. Akansu administered and managed a number of research programs and product development projects in academia and private sector, funded by the State & Federal Government agencies, and industry.
Dr. Akansu is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He has also served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, as a member of the Signal Processing Theory & Methods, and Multimedia Signal Processing technical committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He organized the first Wavelets Conference in the United States in April 1990. He was the technical program chairman of IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop 1996, Loen, Norway. He served as a member of the Steering Committee and the Publications Chair of IEEE ICASSP 2000, Istanbul, Turkey. He was the Lead Guest Editor of two special issues of IEEE Trans. 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 and Secure Content Delivery (June 2003).
