Nasir Ahmed (engineer)

Nasir Ahmed
Nasir Ahmed in 2012
Born1940
(84 years ago)
 (1940)
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SpouseEsther Parente-Ahmed
ChildrenMichael Ahmed Parente
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Doctoral advisorShlomo Karni

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]

  1. ^ "Who is Nasir Ahmed? Real love story of Indian-American engineer on 'This Is Us' who is credited for .jpg algorithm". meaww.com. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2022.