Ali Akansu

Akansu received his B.S. degree from the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 1980, his M.S. and PhD degrees from the Polytechnic University (now New York 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 visiting professor at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the New York University, 2009–2010.

In 1990, he showed that the binomial quadrature mirror filter bank (binomial QMF) is identical to the Daubechies wavelet filter, and interpreted and evaluated its performance from a discrete-time signal processing perspective. A.N. Akansu, R.A. Haddad and H. Caglar, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/IEEE%20TSP%20Binomial%20QMF%20JAN%201993.pdf The Binomial QMF-Wavelet Transform for Multiresolution Signal Decomposition], IEEE Trans. Signal Process., pp. 13–19, January 1993. It was an extension of his prior work on Binomial coefficient and Hermite polynomials that he developed the Modified Hermite Transformation (MHT) in 1987.A.N. Akansu, Statistical Adaptive Transform Coding of Speech Signals. Ph.D. Thesis. Polytechnic University, 1987.R.A. Haddad and A.N. Akansu, [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=90368 A New Orthogonal Transform for Signal Coding], IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol.36, no.9, pp. 1404-1411, September 1988. The magnitude square functions of Binomial-QMF filters were shown to be the unique maximally flat functions in a two-band PR-QMF design formulation.H. Caglar and A.N. Akansu, [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/CaglarAkansuBernstein.pdf A Generalized Parametric PR-QMF Design Technique Based on Bernstein Polynomial Approximation], IEEE Trans. Signal Process., pp. 2314–2321, July 1993.O. Herrmann, [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1083275 On the Approximation Problem in Nonrecursive Digital Filter Design], IEEE Trans. Circuit Theory, vol CT-18, no. 3, pp. 411–413, May 1971. He organized the first wavelet conference in the United States at NJIT in April 1990,[http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/s1.htm 1st NJIT Symposium on Wavelets, April 1990] and, then in 1992[http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/s2.htm 2nd NJIT Symposium on Wavelets, March 1992] and 1994.[https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/s3.htm 3rd NJIT Symposium on Wavelets, March 1994] Together with Richard A. Haddad, he published the first wavelet-related engineering book in the literature entitled Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands and Wavelets in 1992.Akansu, Ali N.; Haddad, Richard A. (1992), Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands, and Wavelets, Boston, MA: Academic Press, {{ISBN|978-0-12-047141-6}}

He made contributions in the areas of optimal filter banks,A.N. Akansu and Y. Liu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Akansu-LiuOnSignalDecomposition-SPIE-OptEngJuly1991.pdf "On Signal Decomposition Techniques,"] Optical Engineering, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 912–920, July 1991.R.A. Haddad and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Haddad-AkansuFastGaussianBinomialFiltersIEEE-TSP-March1991.pdf "A Class of Fast Gaussian Binomial Filters for Speech and Image Processing,"] IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 39, pp. 723-727, March 1991.A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Akansu-FilterBanksWaveletsSP-SPIEOct1993.pdf "Filter Banks and Wavelets in Signal Processing: A Critical Review,"] Proc. SPIE Video Communications and PACS for Medical Applications (Invited Paper), pp. 330-341, vol. 1977, Berlin, Oct. 1993.M.V. Tazebay and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Akansu-Progressive-Optimality-in-Hierarchical-Filter-Banks-ICIP1994.pdf "Progressive Optimality in Hierarchical Filter Banks,"] Proc. of 1st International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 825-829, vol. 1, Austin, Nov. 1994.A.N. Akansu, [https://patents.google.com/patent/US5420891A/en "Multiplierless 2-band perfect reconstruction quadrature mirror filter (PR-QMF) banks,"] US Patent (US5420891A), May 30, 1995.C.A. Gonzales and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Gonzales-Akansu-ICASSP-1997.pdf "A Very Efficient Low-bit-rate Subband Image/Video Codec Using Shift-only PR-QMF and Zero-zone Linear Quantizers,"] Proc. IEEE ICASSP, vol. 4, pp. 2993-2996, April 1997. nonlinear phase extensions of discrete Walsh-Hadamard transformA.N. Akansu and R. Poluri, [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Akansu-Poluri-WALSH-LIKE2007.pdf "Walsh-Like Nonlinear Phase Orthogonal Codes for Direct Sequence CDMA Communications,"] IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 3800–3806, July 2007. and discrete Fourier transform,A.N. Akansu and H. Agirman-Tosun, [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Akansu-Agirman%20Sarnoff2009.pdf "Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform: Theory and Design Methods,"] Proc. IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, pp. 1–7, March 2009 principal component analysis of first-order autoregressive process,M.U. Torun and A.N.Akansu, [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Torun-Akansu-KLTKernelforAR(1)-IEEETransSP-Aug2013.pdf "An Efficient Method to Derive Explicit KLT Kernel for First-Order Autoregressive Discrete Process,"] IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 15, pp. 3944–3953, Aug. 2013. sparse approximation,O. Yilmaz and A.N.Akansu, [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Yilmaz-Akansu-Sparsity-IEEE-TSP-July2015.pdf "Quantization of Eigen Subspace for Sparse Representation,"] IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 14, pp. 3616–3625, 15 July 2015. digital watermarking,M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Ramkumar-AkansuSPIENov1998.pdf "A Robust Scheme for Oblivious Detection of Watermarks / Data Hiding in Still Images,"] Proc. SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communication, vol. 3528, pp. 474-481, Boston, Nov. 1998.

M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Ramkumar-Akansu-IEEEMMSPDec1998.pdf "Information Theoretic Bounds for Data Hiding in Compressed Images,"] Proc. IEEE 2nd Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 267-272, Redondo Beach, Dec. 1998.

M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Ramkumar-Akansu-AlatanICASSP1999.pdf "On the Choice of Transforms for Data Hiding in Compressed Video,"] Proc. IEEE ICASSP, vol. VI, pp. 3049-3052, Phoenix, March 1999.

M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Ramkumar-AkansuSPIESept1999.pdf "Self-Noise Suppression Schemes for Blind Image Steganography,"] Proc. SPIE Special Session on Image Security, vol. 3845, pp. 55-65, Boston, Sept. 1999.

I.B. Ozer, M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Ozer-Ramkumar-AkansuICASSP2000.pdf "A New Methodology for Detection of Watermarks in Geometrically Distorted Images,"] Proc. IEEE ICASSP, vol. IV, pp. 1963-1966, Istanbul, June 2000.

H.T. Sencar, M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu, [https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Sencar-Ramkumar-AkansuISCAS2002.pdf "A Robust Type-III Data Hiding Technique Against Cropping and Resizing Attacks,"] Proc. IEEE ISCAS 2002, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2002. financial signal processing and quantitative finance.A.N. Akansu and M.U. Torun, [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/Akansu-Torun-IEEEJSTSP-Aug2012.pdf "Toeplitz Approximation to Empirical Correlation Matrix of Asset Returns: A Signal Processing Perspective,"] IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 319–326, Aug. 2012.M.U. Torun, A.N. Akansu and M. Avellaneda, [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/TorunAkansuAvellanedaIEEE-SPMagSept2011.pdf "Portfolio Risk in Multiple Frequencies,"] IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 61–71, Sept. 2011.A.N. Akansu and A. Xiong, [https://www.risk.net/journal-of-investment-strategies/7657681/eigenportfolios-of-us-equities-for-the-exponential-correlation-model "Eigenportfolios of US Equities for the Exponential Correlation Model,"] Journal of Investment Strategies (Risk.net), pp. 55–77, Aug. 2020. A.N. Akansu, M. Avellaneda and A. Xiong, [https://www.risk.net/journal-of-investment-strategies/7826941/quant-investing-in-cluster-portfolios "Quant Investing in Cluster Portfolios,"] Journal of Investment Strategies (Risk.net), pp. 61–78, Dec. 2020.

Akansu was a founding director of the New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research (NJCMR), 1996–2000, and NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Digital Video, 1998–2000. He was the vice president for research and development of the IDT Corporation, 2000–2001, the founding president and CEO of PixWave, Inc. (an IDT Entertainment subsidiary) that has built the technology for secure peer-to-peer video distribution over the Internet. He was an academic visitor at David Sarnoff Research Center (Sarnoff Corporation), at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and at Marconi Electronic Systems.

He is an IEEE Fellow (since 2008) with the citation for contributions to optimal design of transforms and filter banks for communications and multimedia security.[http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_2008.html Fellow Class of 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413083007/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_2008.html |date=13 April 2010 }} IEEE: Fellow Class of 2008

According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, as of October 2023, Akansu had a total of 25 doctorate students.http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=74955 Mathematics Genealogy Project : Ali Naci Akansu

• {{Citation | last1=Akansu | first1=Ali N. | last2=Haddad | first2=Richard A. | title=Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands, and Wavelets | publisher=Academic Press | location=Boston, MA | isbn=978-0-12-047141-6 | year=1992}}
• {{Citation | last1=Akansu | first1=Ali N. | last2=Smith | first2=Mark J. T. | title=Subband and Wavelet Transforms: Design and Applications | publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers | location=Boston | isbn=978-0-7923-9645-1 | year=1996}}
• {{Citation | last1=Akansu | first1=Ali N. | last2=Medley | first2=Michael J. | title=Wavelet, Subband, and Block Transforms in Communications and Multimedia | publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers | location=Boston | isbn=978-0-7923-8507-3 | year=1999}}
• {{Citation | last1=Sencar | first1=Husrev T. | author2=Mahalingam Ramkumar | last3=Akansu | first3=Ali N. | title=Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content Security in Digital Multimedia | publisher=Academic Press | location=Boston, MA | isbn=978-0-12-047144-7 | year=2004}}
• {{Citation | last1=Akansu | first1=Ali N. | last2=Torun | first2=Mustafa U. | title=A Primer for Financial Engineering: Financial Signal Processing and Electronic Trading | publisher=Academic Press | location=Boston, MA | isbn=978-0-12-801561-2

| year=2015}}

• {{Citation | last1=Akansu | first1=Ali N. | last2=Kulkarni | first2=Sanjeev R. | last3=Malioutov | first3=Dmitry M. |title=Financial Signal Processing and Machine Learning | publisher=Wiley-IEEE Press | location=Hoboken, NJ | isbn=978-1-118-74567-0 | year=2016}}

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• [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/ Ali Akansu's home page]
• {{MathGenealogy |id=74955}}
• [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/gdft.htm Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform (GDFT) with Non-linear Phase Functions]
• [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/NJITSYMP1990/AkansuNJIT1STWAVELETSSYMPAPRIL301990.pdf Binomial-QMF Daubechies Wavelets]
• [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/sym.htm NJIT Symposia on Subbands and Wavelets 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997]
• [https://njbiz.com/idt-entertainment-sold-to-liberty-media-for-186-million-and-interest-in-idt/ IDT Entertainment Sold to Liberty Media for 186 Million and Interest in IDT]
• Starz Distribution
• [https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethharris/2016/02/23/a-disgusted-ceo-is-a-good-ceo-says-new-study-at-least-for-shareholders-2/#45e36edd34d0 A Disgusted CEO Is A Good CEO, Says New Study (At Least For Shareholders)]

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