Ali N. Akansu received the BS degree from the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, in 1980, the MS and Ph.D degrees from the Polytechnic University,Brooklyn, New York in 1983 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He has been with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology since 1987. 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 serves as a consultantto the industry. His current research interests are signal theory, linear transform theory (subbands and wavelets) and algorithms, image-video compression andmultimedia networks, signal processing techniques for digital communications, communication networks and Internet technologies.
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