Curriculum Vitae Kasso A. Okoudjou

Curriculum Vitae Kasso A. Okoudjou Department of Mathematics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 phone: 301-405-5081 fax: 301-314-0827 email: kasso@math.umd.edu web page: http://www.math.umd.edu/ kasso Education Ph.D. in Mathematics August 2003 Georgia Institute of Technology Thesis: Characterization of function spaces and boundedness properties of bilinear pseudodifferential operators through Gabor frames Dissertation Advisor : Christopher Heil M.S. in Electrical Engineering May 2003 Georgia Institute of Technology Maîtrise és Sciences Mathématiques September 1996 Université Nationale du Bénin Research Interests Pure and Applied Harmonic analysis including time-frequency and wavelet analysis and their applications to signal processing; nonlinear PDEs. Analysis on fractals. Professional Experience Professor Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park 2015- present Associate Professor 2010-2015 Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park Humboldt Senior Fellow May - August 2012 Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Humboldt Senior Fellow 2010-2011 Institute of Mathematics, University of Osnabrück. Assistant Professor 2006-2010 Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park

Kasso A. Okoudjou 2 H. C. Wang Assistant Professor 2003-2006 Department of Mathematics, Cornell University Junior Research Fellow June 2005 - July 2005 Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria Visiting Graduate Student May 2001 - August 2001 Numerical Harmonic Analysis Group (NuHAG), University of Vienna, Austria Graduate Teaching Assistant 1998-2003 School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology Mathematics Instructor (for high school) 1996-1998 Complexe Scolaire William Ponty de Porto-Novo, Bénin Books 1. T. Andrews, R. Balan, J. J. Benedetto, W. Czaja, and K. A. Okoudjou (Eds), Excursions in Harmonic Analysis: The February Fourier Talks at the Norbert Wiener Center, (Volumes I & II) Birkhaüser, 2013. 2. R. Balan, M. Begué, J. J. Benedetto, W. Czaja, and K. A. Okoudjou (Eds), Excursions in Harmonic Analysis, Volume III: The February Fourier Talks at the Norbert Wiener Center, Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis, Birkhaüser/Springer, New York, 2015. Refereed Journal Publications 1. Gabor analysis in weighted amalgam spaces (with K. Gröchenig, and C. Heil), Sampl. Theory Signal Image Process. 1 (2002), no. 3, 225 260. 2. Embeddings of some classical Banach spaces into modulation spaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), no. 6, 1639 1647. 3. Bilinear pseudodifferential operators on modulation spaces (with A. Bényi), J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 10 (2004), no. 3, 301 313. 4. Convolutional frames and the frame potential (with M. Fickus, B.D. Johnson and K. Kornelson), Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 19 (2005), no. 1, 77 91. 5. A class of Fourier multipliers for modulation spaces (with A. Bény, L. Grafakos and K. Gröchenig), Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 19 (2005), no. 1, 131 139. 6. Weak uncertainty principles on fractals (with R. S. Strichartz), J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 11 (2005), no. 3, 315 331. 7. Modulation spaces and a class of bounded multilinear pseudodifferential operators (with A. Bényi, K. Gröchenig, and C. Heil), J. Operator Theory, 54 (2005), no. 2, 389 401.

Kasso A. Okoudjou 3 8. Modulation spaces estimates for multilinear pseudodifferential operators (with A. Bényi), Studia Math., 172 (2006), no. 2, 169 180. 9. Multilinear localization operators (with E. Cordero), J. Math. Anal. Appl. 325 (2007), no. 2, 1103 1116. 10. Unimodular Fourier multipliers on modulation spaces, (with A. Bényi, K. Gröchenig and L. Rogers), J. Funct. Anal., 246 (2007), no. 2, 366 384. 11. Asymptotics of eigenvalue clusters for Schrödinger operators on the Sierpinski gasket (with R. S. Strichartz), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), no. 8, 2453-2459. 12. Time-frequency estimates for pseudodifferential operators (with A. Bényi), Contemporary Math., AMS, Vol. 428 (2007), 13 22. 13. An uncertainty principle for fractals, graphs and manifolds (with L. Saloff-Coste and A. Teplyaev), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), no. 7, 3857-3873. 14. Frame potential and finite abelian groups, (with B. D. Johnson), Contemporary Math., Vol. 464 (2008), 137 148. 15. Invertibility of the Gabor frame operator on the Wiener amalgam space, (with I. A. Krishtal), J. Approximation Theory, 153 (2008), no. 2, 212 224. 16. A Beurling-Helson type theorem on modulation spaces, J. Funct. Spaces Appl., 7 (2009), no. 1, 33 41. 17. Generalized eigenfunctions and a Borel theorem on the Sierpinski gasket, (with L. G. Rogers and R. S. Strichartz), Canad. Math. Bull., 52 (2009), no. 1, 105 116. 18. Local well-posedness of nonlinear dispersive equations on modulation spaces, (with A. Benyi), Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 41 (2009) no. 3, 549 558. 19. Szegö limit theorems on the Sierpiński gasket, (with L. G. Rogers and R. S. Strichartz), J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 16, (2010) no. 3, 434 447. 20. Dilation properties for weighted modulation spaces, (with E. Cordero), J. Funct. Spaces Appl., 2012), Article ID 145491, 29 pages doi:10.1155/2012/145491. 21. Minimization of the probabilistic p-frame potential, (with M. Ehler), J. Statist. Plann. Inference, 142 (2012), no. 3, 645 659. 22. Scalable frames, (withg. Kutyniok, F. Philipp, and K. E. Tuley) Linear Algebra Appl., 438 (2013), 2225-2238. 23. Orthogonal polynomials on the Sierpinski gasket, (with R. S. Strichartz, and E. K. Tuley), Constr. Approx., 37 (2013), no., 3, 311 340. 24. Prime tight frames, (with J. Lemvig, and C. Miller), Adv. Comput. Math., 40 (2014), no. 2, 315 334.. 25. Multi-window Gabor frames in amalgam spaces, (with R. Balan, J. G. Christensen, I. A. Krishtal, and J. L. Romero) Math. Res. Lett., 21 (2014), no. 1, 1 15.

Kasso A. Okoudjou 4 26. Scalable frames and convex geometry, (with G. Kutyniok, and F. Philipp), Contemp. Math. 626 (2014), 19 32. 27. Scaling Laplacian pyramids, (with Y. Hur), SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 36(1) (2015), 348 365. 28. Finite two-distance tight frames, (with A. Barg, A. Glazyrin, and W. -H. Yu, ) Linear Algebra Appl., 475 (2015), 163 175. 29. Measures of scalability, (with X. Chen, G. Kutyniok, F. Philipp, and R. Wang), IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 61 (2015), no. 8, 4410 4423. 30. Some spectral properties of pseudo-differential operators on the Sierpiński gasket, (with M. Ionescu, and L. G. Rogers), submitted (June 2014). Chapters in Books 1. Probabilistic frames: An overview, (with M. Ehler), in: Finite Frames, Eds: P. Casazza and G. Kutyniok, Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis, 415 436, Birkhaüser, 2013. Conference Proceedings And Other Publications 1. Concatenating codes for improved ambiguity behavior, (with J. J. Benedetto, A. Bourouihiya, and I. Konstantinidis), Proceedings 2007 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, (ICEAA 2007), 464 467. 2. Perfect Preconditioning of Frames by a Diagonal Operator, (with G. Kutyniok, and F. Philipp), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, pp. 85 88. 3. Preconditioning of frames, (with G. Kutyniok, and F. Philipp), Proc. SPIE 8858, Wavelets and Sparsity XV, 88580G (September 26, 2013). 4. Optimal frame conditioners, (with C. A. Clark), 2015 International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA), 148 152 ( DOI: 10.1109/SAMPTA.2015.7148869) Talks Wavelets and Sparsity XVI, San Diego, August 2015. 2015 IMA PI Summer Graduate Program: Modern Harmonic Analysis and Applications, College Park, July 2015. Colloquium, Central Michigan University, January 2015. AMS Short Course on on Finite Frame Theory: A Complete Introduction to Overcompleteness, San Antonio, January 2015.

Kasso A. Okoudjou 5 Colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University, November 2014. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Morehouse College, November 2014. Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 2014. 5 th International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis, Vanderbilt University, May 2014, (Invited Speaker). Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Western Washington University, May 2014. Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Bowie State University, April 2014. AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, March 2014. Seminar, Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP), Dangbo, Bénin, January 2014 Seminar, African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-Sénégal), Mbour, Sénégal, January 2014. Analysis Seminar, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, November 2013. AMS Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, and Related Expansions, Washington University, Saint Louis, October 2013 19th Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, UCSD, July 2013. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, November 2012. Seminar, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, November 2012. Workshop on Mathematics of Computation, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, July 2012. Joint Seminar, Image Processing Group, Fraunhofer ITWM, & Mathematical Image Processing and Data Analysis Group, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany, July 2012. SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Mini Symposium on Points that minimize potential functions, Valencia, Spain, June 2012. Colloquium, Modeling, Numerics, Differential Equations Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, May 2012. Seminar in the Research Group Applied Functional Analysis, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, May 2012.

Kasso A. Okoudjou 6 AMS Special Session on Analysis of Wavelets, Frames and Fractals, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, March 2012. DARPA Math-Summit, Lake Tahoe, NV, February 2012. Norbert Wiener Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, February 2012. AMS Special Session and 4th Cornell Conference on Analysis, Probability, and Mathematical Physics on Fractals, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, September 2011. Colloquium, Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany, July 2011. Analysis Seminar, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweeden, June 2011. Oberseminar in Applied Analysis, Mathematics Institute, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, June 2011. Analysis Seminar, The George Washington University, December 2010. New Trends in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, June 2010. Oberseminar in Applied Analysis, Mathematics Institute, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, June 2010. From Banach Spaces to Frame Theory and Applications, (Conference in Honor of Professor Pete Casazza s 65th Birthday), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 2010. ONR D& I 6.2 Gathering for Information Integration and Image Understanding, Alexandria, VA, May 2010. AMS Special Session on Optimal Frames and Operator Algebras, San Fransisco, CA, January 2010. Spring 2009 Lecture Series, Department of Mathematics, Bowie State University, April 2009. 6th International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Special Session on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations and Applications), Morgan State University, Baltimore, May 2008. Classical and Modern Harmonic Analysis: from Theory to Numerical Computation, ICMS - University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2008. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Western Washington University, April 2008. Special Session on Wavelets, Frames and Multi-Scale Constructions, Baton Rouge, March 2008. Function Theory Study Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, February 2008.

Kasso A. Okoudjou 7 Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Kansas University, February 2008. Colloquium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, January 2008. Workshop on Recent Advances in Operator Theory and Function Theory, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, January 2008. Technology Services Corporation, Silver Spring, MD, October 2007. Cornell s Summer Math Institute, Cornell University, July 2007. Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Smorgasbord Seminar Talk, Cornell University, July 2007. 2007 Von Neumann Symposium: Sparse Representation and High-Dimensional Geometry, Snowbird, UT, July 2007. Workshop on Analysis on Graphs and Fractals, Cardiff University, Wales, May 2007. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, St. Mary s College of Maryland, April 2007. Computational Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, April 2007. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University, Montreal, March 2007. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Howard University, February 2007. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Morgan State University, February 2007. Special Session on Frames and Wavelets in Harmonic Analysis, Geometry, and Applications, Joint Math Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January, 2007. Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Virginia, November 2006. Blackwell-Tapia Conference, IMA, University of Minnesota, Mineapolis, MN, November 2006. Special Session on Analysis and Probability on Fractals, AMS Regional Meeting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 2006. Workshop on Current Trends in Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications: Wavelets and Frames, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2006. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, February 2006. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland College Park, February 2006. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, February 2006. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, January 2006.

Kasso A. Okoudjou 8 Analysis Seminar, Cornell University, November 2005. Special Session on Wavelets, Frames and Related Expansions, AMS Regional Meeting, University of Oregon, Eugene, November 2005. Joint Wavelet Seminar, Saint Louis University and Washington University in Saint Louis, October 2005. Workshop on Time-frequency analysis and nonstationary filtering, Banff International Research Station, Banff, September 2005. 11 th Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, IPAM, UCLA, June 2005 (Invited Speaker). Seminar at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, June 2005. Workshop on Time-Frequency methods for pseudodifferential operators, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, May 2005. Analysis Seminar, Cornell University, February 2005. Analysis Seminar, University of Connecticut Storrs, October 2004. Cornell University, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Smorgasbord Seminar Talk, July 2004. Second International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis, Vanderbilt University, May 2004 (Invited). Analysis Seminar, Cornell University, March 2003. Special Session on Wavelets, Frames and Operator Theory, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD, January 2003. Special Session on Functional and Harmonic Analysis of Wavelets, Frames and their Applications, AMS Regional Meeting, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL November 2002. University of Arkansas Spring Lecture Series in Mathematical Sciences, Fayetteville, AR, April 2002. Special Session on Frames, Wavelets and Operator Theory, AMS Regional Meeting, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 2002. New Mexico Analysis Seminar, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, February 2002. Analysis Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology February 2002. Graduate Students Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology February 2002. SampTA 2001, University of Central Florida, Orlando, May 2001. Analysis Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology February 2001.

Kasso A. Okoudjou 9 Professional Services Associate editor for the Journal of Pseudo-Differential Operators and Applications. Associate editor for the Journal of Function Spaces. Journal Referee (last two years): Journal d Analyse Mathématiques, Journal of Functional Analysis, Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Journals of the London Mathematical Society, Journal of Pseudo-Differential Operators and Applications, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Nonlinear Analysis Series A, Tohoku Mathematical Journal, Transactions of the AMS. Reviewer for Jone & Bartlett Publishers; Mathematical Reviews. Membership in Professional Societies American Mathematical Society (AMS). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Honors and Awards Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians: Topics in harmonic analysis, 9/1/2014-8/31/2019. National Science Foundation grant 1359307: REU Site: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics Research Experience for Undergraduates (MAPS-REU), 3/15/2014-3/15/2017, PI. RASA, Graduate School, University of Maryland, College Park, Summer 2014. Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2010 2012. RASA, Graduate School, University of Maryland, College Park, Summer 2010. CMPS Dean s Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2009, CMPS, University of Maryland. 2008 Celebrating Excellence Outstanding Mentor Award, CMPS, Univeristy of Maryland. Erwin Schrödinger Junior Fellowship. Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, 2004. Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (one of five institute awards for 2003) Skill Fluent in French (native language) and English August, 2015