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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal For leadership and pioneering contributions to the field of digital signal processing.
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For research, teaching, and leadership in signal processing.
  • 1977 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.

Overview

Ronald W. Schafer is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, primarily focusing on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Physiology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Surgery.

Their work addresses multiple main topics, including:

  • Phosphodiesterase function and regulation
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Biomedical and Chemical Research

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • "Efficient Deconvolution With the Discrete Fourier Transform" (2024) published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • "Discovery of Atp Competitive Pdhk1/2 Dual Inhibitors" (2025) published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Discovery of ATP competitive PDHK1/2 dual inhibitors" (2025) published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
  • "Welcher Modus zur Behandlung der treatment emerged central sleep apnea (TECSA) ist angebracht: Start adaptive Servoventilation (ASV) versus continuous positiv airway pressure (CPAP) ggf. Umstellung ASV? Gibt es Adaptationsmechanismen?" (2025) published in Pneumologie

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ronald W. Schafer include:

  • Guangtian Zou
  • Hong-Tao Xu
  • Dong Ding
  • Xingchun Han
  • Kun Miao

Their publications have appeared in established venues such as:

  • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
  • Pneumologie

Ronald W. Schafer has been recognized with several awards during their career, such as the Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal awarded in 2010 for leadership and pioneering contributions to digital signal processing. They were also inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1994 for research, teaching, and leadership in signal processing. Additionally, they were honored as an IEEE Fellow in 1977 for contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.

Best Publications

  • Discrete-Time Signal Processing

    Alan V. Oppenheim;Ronald W. Schafer

  • Digital Processing of Speech Signals

    Lawrence R. Rabiner;Ronald W. Schafer

  • What Is a Savitzky-Golay Filter? [Lecture Notes]

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  • Morphological filters--Part I: Their set-theoretic analysis and relations to linear shift-invariant filters

    P. Maragos;R. Schafer

  • Nonlinear filtering of multiplied and convolved signals

    A. Oppenheim;R. Schafer;T. Stockham

  • Morphological filters--Part II: Their relations to median, order-statistic, and stack filters

    P. Maragos;R. Schafer

  • The chirp z-transform algorithm

    L. Rabiner;R. Schafer;C. Rader

  • Morphological skeleton representation and coding of binary images

    P. Maragos;R. Schafer

  • From frequency to quefrency: a history of the cepstrum

    A.V. Oppenheim;R.W. Schafer

  • The chirp z-transform algorithm and its application

    Lawrence R. Rabiner;Ronald W. Schafer;Charles M. Rader

  • Morphological systems for multidimensional signal processing

    P. Maragos;R.W. Schafer

  • A regularized iterative image restoration algorithm

    A.K. Katsaggelos;J. Biemond;R.W. Schafer;R.M. Mersereau

  • Theory and Applications of Digital Speech Processing

    Lawrence Rabiner;Ronald Schafer

  • System for automatic formant analysis of voiced speech.

    Ronald W. Schafer;Lawrence R. Rabiner

  • An Introduction to Digital Speech Processing

    Lawrence R. Rabiner;Ronald W. Schafer

  • On the use of the I 0 -sinh window for spectrum analysis

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  • Homomorphic analysis of speech

    A. Oppenheim;R. Schafer

  • Real-time digital hardware pitch detector

    J. Dubnowski;R. Schafer;L. Rabiner

  • Theoretical aspects of morphological filters by reconstruction

    José Crespo;Jean Serra;Ronald W. Schafer

  • Decision-based median filter using local signal statistics

    Dinei A. F. Florencio;Ronald W. Schafer

  • Two-dimensional linear prediction and its application to adaptive predictive coding of images

    P. Maragos;R. Schafer;R. Mersereau

  • Signal Processing First

    James H. McClellan;Ronald W. Schafer;Mark A. Yoder

  • Design and simulation of a speech analysis-synthesis system based on short-time Fourier analysis

    R. Schafer;L. Rabiner

  • On the behavior of minimax fir digital Hilbert transformers

    L. R. Rabiner;R. W. Schafer

  • Synthetic voices for computers

    J. L. Flanagan;C. H. Coker;L. R. Rabiner;R. W. Schafer

Frequent Co-Authors

Amir Said
Amir Said Qualcomm (United States)
Ton Kalker
Ton Kalker Hewlett-Packard (United States)
James H. McClellan
James H. McClellan Georgia Institute of Technology
Lawrence R. Rabiner
Lawrence R. Rabiner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Steven W. McLaughlin
Steven W. McLaughlin Georgia Institute of Technology
Bernard Widrow
Bernard Widrow Stanford University
Anthony Yezzi
Anthony Yezzi Georgia Institute of Technology
Russell M. Mersereau
Russell M. Mersereau Georgia Institute of Technology

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