Akram Aldroubi is an American mathematician known for his work in

sampling theory In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset (a statistical sample) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population. Statisticians attempt ...

harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of Function (mathematics), functions or signals as the Superposition principle, superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fo ...

, and their applications to signal and

image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

as well as biomedical data analysis.

Education

Aldroubi received a diplôme in electrical engineering from

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

, in Switzerland, in 1982. He studied mathematics at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

, earning his master’s in 1984 and his doctorate in 1987.

Career

After Carnegie, Aldroubi worked as a researcher at the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

. He moved to the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University in 1997 where he currently holds a position of professor. He has worked on

, wavelets, frame theory and their applications to signal and

. In 2009, he was awarded the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship to continue teaching and conduct research. In 2014, Aldroubi was inducted as a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

for "contributions to modern

and its applications, and for building bridges between mathematics and other areas of science and engineering."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aldroubi, Akram Living people 20th-century American mathematicians Vanderbilt University faculty École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni Carnegie Mellon University alumni Fellows of the American Mathematical Society National Institutes of Health faculty Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American mathematicians