Alan V. Oppenheim

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Alan V. Oppenheim
Born
Alan Victor Oppenheim

1937 (age 8586)
New York City, U.S.
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Digital signal processing
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Signal processing
Institutions
Thesis Superposition in a Class of Nonlinear Systems  (1964)
Doctoral advisor Amar Bose [1]
Doctoral students

Alan Victor Oppenheim [2] (born 1937) is a professor of engineering at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a principal investigator in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), at the Digital Signal Processing Group.

Contents

His research interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications. He is co-author of the widely used textbooks Discrete-Time Signal Processing and Signals and Systems. He is also the editor of several advanced books on signal processing.

Education

Oppenheim received his B.S. and M.S. degrees simultaneously in 1961 and his D.Sc. degree in 1964, all in electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3] His dissertation Superposition in a Class of Nonlinear Systems was written under the direction of Amar Bose. He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University (1995). In 1964, Oppenheim joined the faculty at MIT, where he is currently Ford Professor of Engineering and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Since 1967 he has been affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and since 1977 with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. [4]

Affiliations and awards

Oppenheim was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for innovative research, writing of pioneering textbooks, and inspired teaching in the field of digital signal processing.[ citation needed ][ when? ] He is a fellow of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi and ΗΚΝ. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Sackler Fellow.[ citation needed ]

He has also received a number of awards for outstanding research and teaching, including the IEEE Centennial Medal (1984), the IEEE Education Medal (1988), [5] the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2007), [6] [7] the Society Award, the Technical Achievement Award and the Senior Award of the IEEE Society on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. He has also received a number of awards at MIT for excellence in teaching.

Publications

Oppenheim is author or co-author of many books, including:

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References

  1. Alan V. Oppenheim at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Alan Victor Oppenheim was elected in 1987 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering for innovative research, writing of pioneering textbooks, and inspired teaching in the field of digital signal processing.
  3. "| General Staff DirectoryRLE at MIT". www.rle.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  4. Andrew Goldstein (1997). "Oral-History:Alan Oppenheim". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
  5. "IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE . Retrieved November 24, 2010.
  6. "IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE . Retrieved February 28, 2011.
  7. "IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Recipients - 2007 - Alan V. Oppenheim". IEEE . Retrieved February 28, 2011.