Kasso Okoudjou

Kasso Akochayé Okoudjou is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He works on pure and harmonic analysis, differential equations and fractals at the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications. He is the 2018 Martin Luther King Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kasso Okoudjou
Born	Kasso Akochayé Okoudjou
Alma mater	Georgia Institute of Technology University of Abomey-Calavi
Scientific career
Institutions	Cornell University Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics University of Maryland, College Park
Thesis	Characterization of function spaces and boundedness of bilinear pseudodifferential operators through Gabor frames (2003)
Doctoral advisor	Christopher Edward Heil[1]
Website	www2.math.umd.edu/~okoudjou//

Education and early career

Okoudjou studied mathematics at the University of Abomey-Calavi, earning a Master's degree in 1996.[2] He became an instructor at the Complexe Scolaire William Ponty de Porto-Novo in Bénin. In 1998 he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology for his graduate studies.[2] He earned his PhD, Characterization of function spaces and boundedness properties of bilinear pseudodifferential operators through Gabor frames, in 2003 for research supervised by Christopher Edward Heil.[1][3] He was awarded the Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award.[2]

Research

Okoudjou was appointed H. C. Wang Assistant Professor at Cornell University in 2003. In 2005 he joined Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna. He moved to the University of Maryland, College Park in 2006. In 2018 he was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to develop digital signal processing.[4] He applies Frame Theory to the redundancy of data for Quantum Information.[4] He uses the Zauner conjecture and Heil-Ramanathan-Topiwala conjecture.[4]

Okoudjou's accomplishments have earned him recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2019 Honoree.[5]

Books

2016 Finite Frame Theory: A Complete Introduction to Overcompleteness - Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics[6]

References

1. Kasso Okoudjou at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. "Kasso Okoudjou's Home Page". math.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
3. "Publications Page for Kasso Okoudjou". www.math.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
4. "NSF Award Search: Award#1814253 - Two Conjectures on Finite Gabor Systems". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
5. "Kasso Okoudjou". Mathematically Gifted & Black.
6. "Finite Frame Theory by Kasso A. Okoudjou | Waterstones". waterstones.com. Retrieved 2018-12-06.