Ali Akansu

Ali N. Akansu received the B.S. degree from the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, in 1980, the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, in 1983 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1987, he has been with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was the Vice President for Research and Development of IDT Corporation [NYSE:IDT], the founding President and CEO of PixWave, Inc., and Senior VP for Technology Development of TV.TV (IDT subsidiaries), 2000-2001. He has been the Area Coordinator of the Communications, Signal Processing and Microwaves Area of ECE Department since 2008. He served on the Governing Board of the Professional Staff Association at NJIT (2006-2008). Currently, he is serving as the Chairperson of NJIT Faculty Council.

Ph.D.; Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Electrical Engineering; 1987

M.S.; Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Electrical Engineering; 1983

B.S.; Technical University of Istanbul; Electronics And Communications; 1980

http://web.njit.edu/~akansu

Signals and transforms, financial engineering, FPGA & GPU computing.

Theory of signals and transforms, financial engineering, big data finance, and high performance digital signal processing (DSP) (FPGA & GPU computing).

Akansu, Ali, & Kulkarni, Sanjeev, & Malioutov, Malioutov (2016). Financial Signal Processing and Machine Learning. Wiley-IEEE Press

Akansu, Ali, & Torun, Mustafa (2015). A Primer for Financial Engineering: Financial Signal Processing and Electronic Trading. Elsevier

Wang, Yuewen, & Wang, Yahui, & Akansu, Ali, & Belfield, Kevin, & Hubbi, Basil, & Liu, Xuan (2015). Robust motion tracking based on adaptive speckle decorrelation analysis of OCT signal. Biomedical optics express, 6(11), 4302--4316.

Akansu, Ali, & Torun, Mustafa (2013). An Efficient Method to Derive Explicit KLT Kernel for First-Order Autoregressive Discrete Process. IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 61(15), 3944-3953.

Akansu, Ali, & Torun, Mustafa (2012). Toeplitz Approximation to Empirical Correlation Matrix of Asset Returns: A Signal Processing Perspective. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 6(4), 319-326.

Torun, Mustafa, & Akansu, Ali, & Avellaneda, Marco (2011). Portfolio Risk in Multiple Frequencies. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 28(5), 61-71.

Akansu, Ali, & Agirman-Tosun, Handan, & Torun, Mustafa (2010). Optimal Design of Phase Function in Generalized DFT. Physical Communication, Elsevier,

Akansu, Ali, & Agirman-Tosun, Handan (2010). Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform with Nonlinear Phase. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 58(9), 4547-4556.

Akansu, Ali, & Serdijn , Wouter, & Selesnick, Ivan (2010). Wavelet Transforms in Signal Processing: A Review of Emerging Applications. Physical Communications, Elsevier, 3(1), 1-18.

A Fast Derivation of Karhunen-Loève Transform Kernel for First-Order Autoregressive Discrete Process
Big Data Analytics Workshop at SIGMETRICS, June 2013

A Novel Method to Derive Explicit KLT Kernel for AR(1) Process
IEEE ICASSP, May 2013

FPGA Based Eigenfiltering for Real-Time Portfolio Risk Analysis
IEEE ICASSP, May 2013

A Novel GPU Implementation of Eigen Analysis for Risk Management
13th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, June 2012

Generalized DFT Waveforms for MIMO Radar
Seventh IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, June 2012

High Frequency Trading and Signal Processing Models for the Microstructure of Financial Markets
IEEE ICASSP, May 2013

Manual for ECE 641 Laboratory for High Performance Digital Signal Processing, 3rd Ed.
In-house, August 2011

Laboratory Manual for graduate course ECE 641 Laboratory for High Performance Digital Signal Processing
January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2013