K. R. Rao

This article is about the electrical engineer. For the psychologist K. R. Rao, see Koneru Ramakrishna Rao.
K. R. Rao
K. R. Rao
Born(1931-08-27)27 August 1931[1][2]
Madras, India[1][2]
Died15 January 2021(2021-01-15) (aged 89)[2][3]
Arlington, Texas[2]
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known forDiscrete Cosine Transform
AwardsFulbright Scholar[1]
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical Engineering

Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao (1931 – 2021) was an Indian-American electrical engineer. He was a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington). Academically known as K. R. Rao,[4] he is credited with the co-invention of discrete cosine transform (DCT), along with Nasir Ahmed and T. Natarajan due to their landmark publication, Discrete Cosine Transform.[2][5][6]

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