John Benedetto (Maryland)

John J. Benedetto received the B.A. degree from Boston College in 1960, the M.A. degree from Harvard University in 1962, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1964. All degrees are in Mathematics.

He was Assistant Professor at NYU from 1964-1965. During the 1960s he was employed by RCA and IBM, Cambridge working on the design of the Early Warning System and Equatorial Satellites, respectively. In 1965 he joined the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland; and in 1966 he joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he became Full Professor in 1972. He consulted for The MITRE Corporation, as well as Prometheus Incorporated, from 1987-1996. He is Director of the Norbert Wiener Institute in the Department of Mathematics, and he is a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of the University of Maryland.

Dr. Benedetto is an harmonic analyst with research activities in the following areas: spectral analysis, estimation, and synthesis, weighted uncertainty principle inequalities, uniform and non-uniform sampling, the theory of frames, wavelet theory, and Wiener's Generalized Harmonic Analysis. Some specific results have dealt with periodicity detection, health monitoring of jet engines, epileptic seizure prediction, subband coding for sigmoidal nonlinear operations, and frame reconstruction associated with fast imaging from spectral data on spirals. His wavelet-theoretic results have also dealt with the role of fractal behavior in implementing multidimensional single orthonormal wavelets, the development of wavelet theory for number theoretic locally compact abelian groups, and his patented (with A. Teolis) wavelet auditory model. His current work includes results on Sigma-Delta quantization for finite frames and waveform design.

He is founding Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of the Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, the Series Editor of Birkhauser's Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis book series, and is on the editorial boards of Advances in Computational Mathematics and the Journal of Sampling Theory in Signal Processing. He was a senior Fulbright-Hays Scholar (1973-1974), and winner of The MITRE Corporation Best Paper award (1989). He was a member of the Wiener Centenary Advisory Committee (1992-1994), was an organizer for several AMS Special Sessions (including Wavelets in Sampling/Signal Processing and the Legacy of Norbert Wiener), is an organizer for the Erwin Schrodinger Institute program on Time-Frequency Analysis (2004-2005), and is on the Program Committees for several annual/biennial conferences (including SPIE and SampTA).