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K. R. Rao

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K. R. Rao
K. R. Rao
Born(1931-08-27)27 August 1931[1][2]
Died15 January 2021(2021-01-15) (aged 89)[2][3]
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]

Education

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Rao received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, affiliated with the University of Madras, in 1952. In 1959, he received his Master of Science Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Florida in 1959 followed by a Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida in 1960. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1966.[2]

Career

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Rao had been with the University of Texas at Arlington since 1966.[6] He was a professor of electrical engineering, and the director of the Multimedia Processing Laboratory. He also taught undergraduate courses on Discrete Signals and Systems and Fundamentals of Telecommunication systems. He also taught graduate courses on Digital Video Coding, Digital Image Processing, Discrete Transforms, and Multimedia Processing.

He had been an external examiner for graduate students from universities in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan. He was a visiting professor at universities in Australia, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand. He conducted workshops/tutorials on video/audio coding/standards worldwide. He advised more than a hundred graduate students.[7] He published in refereed journals and has been a consultant to industry, research institutes, law firms, and academia.

He was a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Scholars, UTA. He was invited to be a panelist for the 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), with service on the Electrical Engineering Panel. He was a panelist for the US EPA STAR fellowship program during 2013 and 2015 in Chantilly, Virginia.

Discrete cosine transform

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Rao, along with Nasir Ahmed and T. Natarajan, introduced the discrete cosine transform (DCT) in 1974 which has since become very popular in digital signal processing. DCT, INTDCT, directional DCT and MDCT (modified DCT) have been adopted in several international video/image/audio coding standards such as JPEG/MPEG/H.26X series and also by SMPTE (VC-1) and by AVS China.

Publications

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Le, Dang (27 December 2021). "Electrical engineering professor remembered for his mentorship, kindness and contributions to research". The Shorthorn. ISSN 0892-6603. OCLC 232118097. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "OBITUARY | Dr. K.R. Rao | AUGUST 27, 1931 - JANUARY 15, 2021". Dignity Memorial. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  3. ^ "College Mourns Electrical Engineering Professor KR Rao". University of Texas at Arlington. 21 January 2021. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021. Electrical Engineering Professor Kamisetty R. "K.R." Rao, one of the College's longest-serving faculty members, passed away January 15 in Arlington after a short illness. He was 89.
  4. ^ "IEEE Xplore author page". Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  5. ^ Ahmed, Nasir; Natarajan, T. Raj; — (1 January 1974). "Discrete Cosine Transform". IEEE Transactions on Computers. C-23 (1). IEEE Computer Society: 90–93. doi:10.1109/T-C.1974.223784. eISSN 1557-9956. ISSN 0018-9340. LCCN 75642478. OCLC 1799331. S2CID 39023640.
  6. ^ a b Rumende, Thevnin (20 December 2021). "UTA remembers professor Kamisetty "K.R." Rao". The Shorthorn. ISSN 0892-6603. OCLC 232118097. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao". IEEE Spectrum. 2022-06-16. Archived from the original on 2022-06-17. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
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