Linear Canonical Transforms / Springer Series in Optical Sciences Bd.198 (PDF)

Ozaktas received a BS degree from Middle East Technical University, Ankara in 1987, and a PhD degree from Stanford University, California in 1991. He joined Bilkent University, Ankara in 1991, where he is presently Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1992 he was at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavaria as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Over the summer of 1994 he worked as a Consultant at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey. He is the author of over 110 refereed journal articles, 15 book chapters, and over 110 conference presentations and papers, about 45 of which have been invited. He is author of The Fractional Fourier Transform (Wiley 2001) and editor of Three-Dimensional Television (Springer 2008) and Linear Canonical Transforms (Springer 2015). A total of over 5000 citations to his work are recorded in the Science Citation Index (ISI). He is the recipient of the 1998 ICO International Prize in Optics and one of the youngest recipients ever of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Science Award (1999), among other awards and prizes. Haldun M. Ozaktas was also one of the youngest persons elected to full membership of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of OSA, SPIE, and IEEE. His academic interests include optical information processing, signal and image processing, and optoelectronic and optically interconnected computing systems.

John T. Sheridan, BE (NUIG), MScEE (Georgia Tech), DPhil (Oxford University), held an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Erlangen-Nürnberg University and was a Visiting Scientist at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Italy. He was appointed as a Permanent Lecturer in Dublin Institute of Technology in 1997. He joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin in 2000, where he is currently Professor of Optical Engineering. He is the co-founder and Director of Equilume Ltd. In 2014 he became an SPIE Fellow. He has authored over 400 publications and chairs several international conferences.