Mladen Victor Wickerhauser was born in

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, in 1959. He is a graduate of the

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and

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. He is currently a professor of Mathematics in the

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and of Biomedical Engineering in the

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. He has six U.S.

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s and more than 100 publications. One of these, "Entropy-based Algorithms for Best Basis Selection," led to the Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) image compression algorithm, used by the

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to encode fingerprint images. Wickerhauser has been a member of the

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and the

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and has received the 2002

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Pioneer Award from

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Selected works

* Adapted Wavelet Analysis from Theory to Software (A K Peters, 1994) * Mathematics for Multimedia (Elsevier 2003, ) (Birkhaeuser 2009, ) * Introducing Financial Mathematics: Theory, Binomial Models, and Applications (Chapman and Hall/CRC 2023)

References

External links

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M. Victor Wickerhauser"Entropy-based Algorithms for Best Basis Selection"
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1959 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians California Institute of Technology alumni Yale University alumni Washington University in St. Louis faculty Washington University in St. Louis mathematicians Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Scientists from Zagreb {{Croatia-scientist-stub