AKRAM ALDROUBI'S
VITAE
Dept. of Mathematics
Vanderbilt University
Nashville,
TN, 37240-0001
phone: 615-322-6672
fax: 615-343-0215
aldroubi@math.vanderbilt.edu
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA. Thesis: Existence of solutions, regularity, and large time
behavior of parabolic-elliptic interface problems (1987). Thesis advisor:
Richard MacCamy.
- Diploma (M.S.) in Electrical
Engineering, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (EPFL). Thesis: Analysis and synthesis
of textural images, (1982). Thesis adviser: Murat Kunt.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Harmonic
analysis, functional analysis, wavelet transform, frame theory,
sampling/reconstruction, mathematical image/signal
processing, mathematical biology.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Professor, Dept. of Mathematics,
Vanderbilt University, (2000-present)
- Associate Professor, Dept. of
Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, (1997-2000)
- Visiting Researcher, CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France, (Fall 1997)
- Head of the Mathematics Group,
Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program, National Center of
Research Resources, National Institutes of Health (1995-1997)
- Senior Staff Fellow, Biomedical
Engineering and Instrumentation Program, National Center of Research
Resources, National Institutes of Health, (1992-1995)
- Staff Fellow, Biomedical
Engineering and Instrumentation Program, National Center of Research
Resources, National Institutes of Health, (1988-1992)
- Faculty Member, FAES Graduate
School at NIH, (1990-1992)
- Post Doctoral Research Associate,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, (1987-1988)
- Teaching Assistant,
Carnegie-Mellon University, (1982-1987)
- Teaching Assistant, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (EPFL), (1977-1979)
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Fellow
of the American Mathematical Society
(2014)
- Fulbright award (Summer 2009).
- Special achievement award of the National Center for
Research Resources (1996).
- Best paper award of the IEEE Signal processing for
the 1993 paper "B-spline signal processing: Part I-Theory," with
M. Unser and M. Eden (1996)
- Prix Rene Cousin Prize awarded for exceptional
mathematical ability, at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne, Switzerland (1981)
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETIES
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
SHORT COURSES
- “Compressed Sampling,”, July 1,- August 14, 2009, University of Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
- “Sampling Wavelets and Frames” Corso Estivo de Matematica, Pallazzone della Scuola Normale Superiore de Pisa,
July 21,- August 10, 2002, Cortona,
Italy.
- "Mathematrical
Imaging" 1998 annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society,
Baltimore, Maryland.
- "Sampling series, wavelets, multiwavelets and their applications'" Workshop
on Mathematics Applied to Industry, 18-29 August 1997, Mar del Plata,
Argentina.
- "Wavelets in Medicine and
Biology," National Institutes of Health, February 7 1997, Bethesda,
Maryland, USA.
- "Wavelets in Medicine and
Biology," 1996 IEEE-EMBS International Conference, 31 October-3 November, 1996, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- "Splines, Atomic Spaces, and
Wavelets," 1995 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing,
23-26 October 1995, Washington DC, USA.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
- Editor-in-chief, Sampling
Theory in Signal and Image Processing.
- Associate
editor, Journal
of Fourier Analysis and Applications.
- Associate
editor, Journal
of Mathematical Imaging and Vision.
- Associate
editor, IEEE
Trans. Signal Processing (1997-1998).
- Member of the editorial board on Pattern Recognition.
- Member of the
editorial board for the book series, Applied and Numerical
Harmonic Analysis, Birkhauser Press.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on
Computational Harmonic Analysis, (2004-2005).
- Guest editor, Special issue on
Wavelets in biomedical Applications, IEEE TMI (2001-2002).
- Guest Editor, Special issue on
frames, Advances in. Computational Mathematics
(2001-2002).
- CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
- Co-chair,
Fifth International Conference on Computational, Harmonic Analysis, in
conjunction with the, 23th Annual Shanks Lecture, May 19 -- May 23, 2014.
- Co-Organizer
(with Alex Powell) of Shanks Workshop on Randomized Algorithms in Applied
and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Fall 2012, Vanderbilt University.
- Co-Organizer, Mini Symposia in the
upcoming Shanks Conference and Lecture in Approximation Theory, May 17-21,
2011, at Vanderbilt.
- Co-Organizer, Workshop on "Mutiscale Geometry and Analysis of High Dimensional
Data Sets," Fall 2010.
- Organizer, FRG Workshop,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, April 29-13, 2006.
- Co-chair, Second International
Conference on Computational, Harmonic Analysis, in conjunction with the,
19th Annual Shanks Lecture, May 24 -- May 30, 2004.
- Organizer, FRG Workshop "The Fuglede conjecture and Gabor frame theory",
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May 11-13, 2003.
- Co-chair SPIE (with the
cooperation of SIAM)- Mathematical Imaging: “Wavelet X,” Aug. 3-Aug. 9,
2003, San Diego, California.
- Local Organizer, Conference “
Advances in Computational Analysis” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN,
May 14-17, 2003.
- Organizing committee member, First
SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, September 22-24, Boston, USA, 2001.
- Chair for the session "
Wavelets, frames, sampling, and time-frequency representations,"
meeting of the American Mathematical Society November 10-12, 2000,
Birmingham, Alabama.
- Co-chair SPIE (with the
cooperation of SIAM)- Mathematical Imaging: “Wavelet Applications in
Signal and Image Processing VIII,” Jul. 19-Aug. 4, 2000, San Diego,
California.
- Co-chair SPIE (with the cooperation
of SIAM)- Mathematical Imaging: Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image
Processing VII, Jul. 19-23, 1999, Denver, Colorado.
- Co-chair SPIE- Mathematical
Imaging: Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VI, Jul.
27-31, 1998, San Diego, California.
- Chair SPIE- Mathematical Imaging:
Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing V, Jul. 27-31, 1997,
San Diego, California.
- Co-chair for the session
"wavelets, multiwavelets and their
applications," in the annual meeting of the American Mathematical
Society, Jan. 8-11, 1996, San Diego, California.
- Co-chair for the workshop on
"Wavelets in Medicine and Biology," Oct. 30, 1996, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, which is part of the 18th International Conference of the
IEEE-EMBS.
- Co-chair SPIE- Mathematical
Imaging: Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing IV, Aug.
4-10, 1996, Denver, Colorado.
- Organizer and chair of the
sessions on "Interaction Between Harmonic Analysis, Approximation
Theory and Signal Processing," in the 8th International Conference on
Approximation Theory, Jan. 8-12, 1995, College Station, Texas A&M,
Texas.
- Program committee member for SPIE-
Mathematical Imaging: Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing
II, Jul. 9-14, 1995, San Diego, California.
- Chair for the two days workshop on
"Wavelet and Applications to Medicine and Biology," Nov. 1-2,
1994, Baltimore, Maryland which was part of the 16th International
Conference of the IEEE-EMBS.
- Program committee member for SPIE-
Mathematical Imaging: Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing
II, Jul. 24-29, 1994, San Diego, California.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Organized a series of seminars on
"Population Dynamics and Mathematical Biology," Spring 1988, VPI.
- Organized a series of seminars on
"Mathematics Applications to Image Processing and Biology,"
1992-1997, BEIP/NCRR/NIH.
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