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Nasir Ahmed (engineer)

Nasir Ahmed (born 1940) is an Indian-American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of New Mexico (UNM). He is best known for inventing the discrete cosine transform (DCT) in the early 1970s. The DCT is the most widely used data compression transformation, the basis for most digital media standards (image, video and audio) and commonly used in digital signal processing. He also described the discrete sine transform (DST), which is related to the DCT.[1]

Nasir Ahmed

1940 (1940)

Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore, British India

Esther Parente-Ahmed

Michael Ahmed Parente

Shlomo Karni

Alumnus of the ; received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore in 1961;

Bishop Cotton Boys' School

Received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the in 1963 and 1966, respectively. His doctoral dissertation adviser was Shlomo Karni;

University of New Mexico

Principal Research Engineer, , St. Paul, Minnesota from 1966–68;

Honeywell

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, , 1968–83;

Kansas State University

1983-2001: —Presidential Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1983–89; Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1989–94; Dean of Engineering, 1994–96; Associate Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, 1996–2001;

University of New Mexico

Consultant, , Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1976–90.

Sandia National Laboratories

Married to Esther Parente-Ahmed. Son, Michael Ahmed Parente.

Popular culture[edit]

In season 5, episode 8 of NBC's This Is Us, Ahmed's story was told to highlight the importance of image and video transmission over the Internet in modern society, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The episode ends with a picture of Ahmed and his wife, along with captions explaining the importance of his work, and that producers spoke to the couple over video chat to understand their story and incorporate it into the episode.[23]

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Nasir Ahmed

IEEE Fellow in 1985, "for his contributions to engineering education and to digital signal processing" ..

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Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award, , 2001.[5].

University of New Mexico

Distinguished Graduate Faculty Member Award, , 1982-83.[6].

Kansas State University