Professional Data

Work Experience:

• Associate Professor, EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2002-present
• Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, ECE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1990-2002 (I set up the Visual Communication Lab)
• Lecturer (visiting position), ECE, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 1997-1998 (I was with Image Processing & Vision Research Lab)
• Visiting Professor, EE, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2000 (I was with Institute for Control Systems and Signal Theory )
• Visiting Research Professor, ME, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 2005 (I was with Signal Processing Laboratory )
• Visiting Associate Professor, EEE, Keio University, Yagami, Japan, 2007 (I was with Prof. Ikehara’s Laboratory )

Academic Qualification:

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (1990)
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (1986)
• B.Tech.(Hons.) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (1985)

Academic Experience:

· Editor/Reviewer

· Research Grant

· Research Supervision

· Teaching

· Administration & Professional Society Role

· Conference Organization & Invited Talk

Recent Awards:

• Student paper award for Zhang L., A. Makur, “Enumeration and parametrization of distinct downsampling patterns in two-dimensional multirate systems,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2006, vol. III, pp. 373-376.
• Best paper award for Z. Xu, A. Makur, “Theory, lattice structure and design of unequal length linear phase perfect reconstruction filter banks with more flexible length profile,” IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits & Systems (APCCAS) 2006, pp. 753-756.
• Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer, 1998
• Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) BOYSCAST fellowship, 1997

Links to the list of publications have been provided in the main homepage.