Editor:  Oraintara, Soontorn    Email:   click to email
Brief Bio:   Soontorn Oraintara received the B.E. degree (Hons.) from King Monkuts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1996, and Boston University in 2000, respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington in July 2000, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Between 1998 and 2000, he was with the Advanced Research Development Group, Ericsson, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC. His current research interests are in the fields of wavelets, filterbanks and multirate systems, and their applications in data compression, image analysis and biomedical signal processing. He received the Technology Award from Boston University for the Integer DCT invention (with Y.J. Chen and T.Q. Nguyen) in 1999 and the College of Engineering Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award from UTA in 2003. He served as an associate editor for the Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing Journal and a guest editor for the Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Multirate Systems and Applications.
Focus:  Filter banks, wavelets, multirate systems
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