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. Course taught: Math. Biology, (1990-1992)
• Post Doctoral Research Associate, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, (1987-1988)
• Teaching Assistant, Carnegie-Mellon University. Courses taught: Hilbert Spaces, Partial Differential Equations, Linear Programming, Ordinary Differential Equations, (1982-1987)
• Teaching Assistant, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). Courses taught: Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra, Vector Analysis, (1977-1979)

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 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

• Member of the American Mathematical Society.

• PUBLICATIONS

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-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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