Ali N. Akansu, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), one of the Institute’s most prestigious honors and the highest grade of membership.

Ali’s most notable contributions are recognized in the field of signal processing specifically as an expert in wavelets. Wavelets are mathematical functions that cut up data into different frequency components. Researchers then study each component with a resolution matched to its scale.

Ali has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He was a member of the Signal Processing Theory & Methods, and Multimedia Signal Processing technical committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society between 1992-2000. He organized the first wavelets technical meeting in the US in 1990 at NJIT. He was a steering committee member and 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 Data Hiding Theory and Applications (April 2003). 

Akansu’s research interests include signal theory, linear transforms and algorithms, signal processing for digital communications, Internet multimedia including security as aspects, and genes and signals. He has published more than 200 refereed conference and journal articles and four books, gave many invited talks internationally, guided more than 15 PhD dissertations on transforms and their applications in image/video coding, digital communications, Internet multimedia and information security.