Alan Victor Oppenheim^[2] (born 1937) is a professor of engineering atMIT's Department ofElectrical Engineering andComputer Science. He is also a principal investigator inMIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), at the Digital Signal Processing Group.

His research interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications. He is co-author of the widely used textbooksDiscrete-Time Signal Processing andSignals and Systems. He is also the editor of several advanced books on signal processing.

Oppenheim received hisB.S. andM.S. degrees simultaneously in 1961 and hisD.Sc. degree in 1964, all inelectrical engineering, from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.^[3] His dissertationSuperposition in a Class of Nonlinear Systems was written under the direction ofAmar Bose. He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate fromTel Aviv University (1995). In 1964, Oppenheim joined the faculty at MIT, where he is currently Ford Professor of Engineering and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Since 1967 he has been affiliated withMIT Lincoln Laboratory and since 1977 with theWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution.^[4]

Oppenheim was elected a member of theNational Academy of Engineering for innovative research, writing of pioneering textbooks, and inspired teaching in the field of digital signal processing.^{[citation needed][when?]} He is a fellow of the IEEE, a member ofSigma Xi and ΗΚΝ. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and aSackler Fellow.^{[citation needed]}

He has also received a number of awards for outstanding research and teaching, including theIEEE Centennial Medal (1984), theIEEE Education Medal (1988),^[5] the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), theIEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2007),^[6][7] the Society Award, the Technical Achievement Award and the Senior Award of the IEEE Society on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. He has also received a number of awards at MIT for excellence in teaching.

Oppenheim is author or co-author of many books, including:

• Oppenheim, Alan V.;Schafer, R. W.; Buck, J. R. (1999).Discrete-time signal processing. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.ISBN 0-13-754920-2.
• Oppenheim, Alan V.; Willsky, Alan S.; Nawab, Hamid; with S. Hamid (1998).Signals and Systems. Pearson Education.ISBN 0-13-814757-4.

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• Alan Oppenheim Playlist Appearance on WMBR'sDinnertime SamplerArchived 2011-05-04 at theWayback Machine radio show March 10, 2004
• Alan V. Oppenheim at theMathematics Genealogy Project
• Digital Signal Processing lecture MIT Courseware

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