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Alan S. Willsky

American electrical engineering professor
Person human Q65229132

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[11]
Date of birth
1948
Country of citizenship
United States[3]
Occupation
professor
Employer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology[5]
Field of work
digital signal processing[4]
Educated at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (?–1973)
Award received
IEEE Fellow, Noble Prize, Donald P. Eckman Award, honorary doctor of the University of Rennes I[7][8][9][10]
Doctoral advisor
Wallace E. Vander Velde[6]
Doctoral student
Peyman Milanfar, Martin J. Wainwright, Venkat Chandrasekaran, Steven I Marcus, Robert Buchanan Washburn, Jr., Bruce Keppen Walker, Howard Jay Chizeck, Junmo Kim, Ilya Pollak, Walter Sun, Emily B. Fox, Eric Lawrence Miller, Frank Moss, Myung Jin Choi, Vincent Yan Fu Tan, Kush Raj Varshney, Ayres Chee Fan, Jason Kyle Johnson, O. Patrick Kreidl, Dmitry M. Malioutov, Jason L. Williams, Erik Sudderth, Alexander Thomas Ihler, Dewey Stanton Tucker, Ron Ofer Dror, Andrew J. Kim, John Alfred Richards, Michael Klaus Schneider, Cedric Leonard Logan, Raymond Hon-Sing Kwong, John Steven Eterno, Pooi Yuen Kam, Joseph Edward Wall, Jr., James Saunderson, Jerry L. Prince, Peter Charles Doerschuk, Ying Liu, Carey David Bunks, Matthew Johnson, Sheldon Lou[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[29]
Family name
Willsky[26]
Given name
Alan, Steven[27][28]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[31]
Name in native language
Alan Willsky[30]
🏷️ Also known as
en Alan Steven Willsky en Alan S. Willsky cs A. S. Willsky
🔖 Identifiers · 32
ISNI
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VIAF cluster ID
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Library of Congress Authorities ID
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Academic Tree ID
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BIBSYS ID
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CONOR.BG ID
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CONOR.SI ID
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Canadiana Name Authority ID
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CiNii Research ID
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Cyprus University of Technology ID
22258
DBLP author ID
48/6690
Dimensions author ID
010070142507.94
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Freebase ID
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Google Scholar author ID
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IEEE Xplore author ID
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IdRef ID
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J9U entity ID
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MR Author ID
183285
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
67690
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA00060454
NDL Authority ID
00461093
NL CR AUT ID
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NUKAT ID
n97068208
National Academy of Engineering member ID
31139
National Library of Korea ID
KAC202109965
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
071785116
Pontifical University of Salamanca ID
120562
SHARE Catalogue author ID
4029
Scopus author ID
7102160071
WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
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ZbMATH author ID
willsky.alan-s

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Summary

Alan S. Willsky was born in 1948[1]. He has worked as a professor[2].

FAQs

What did Alan S. Willsky do for work?

Alan S. Willsky worked as a professor[2].

What awards did Alan S. Willsky receive?

Honors received include IEEE Fellow[7], Noble Prize[8], Donald P. Eckman Award[9], and honorary doctor of the University of Rennes I[10].

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  7. [8] ↑ . willsky.lids.mit.edu. willsky.lids.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . a2c2.org. a2c2.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  29. [29] ↑ . CONOR.SI. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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