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Rashid Ansari, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact

Building & Room:

3007 ERF

Address:

842 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60607

Office Phone:

312.996.5489

About

Research Interests

Professor Ansari’s primary research interest is in signal processing and communications. Topics of research include image and video processing, layered video compression and packetized transmission, multi-modal signal analysis, multirate filter banks and wavelets, and speech processing.

Notable Honors

1994, Certificate of Merit for exhibit on medical image compression research, Radiological Soc. of North America

1993, Orator speech synthesizer research, Bellcore President’s Recognition Award

1999, Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Princeton University, 1981

M.Tech. Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1977

B.Tech. Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1975