Mladen Victor Wickerhauser, born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1959, holds the
degrees of B.S. with Honor (1980) from the California Institute of
Technology, and M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) from Yale University, all in
mathematics.

He is currently Professor of Mathematics and Professor of
Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis,
Missouri.  He has five U.S. patents and more than 100 publications,
including the monograph "Adapted Wavelet Analysis" (A K Peters/IEEE
Press, 1994) and the textbook "Mathematics for Multimedia"
(Elsevier/Academic Press, 2003; Birkhaeuser/Springer Verlag, 2009).

Professor Wickerhauser has been a member of the American Mathematical
Society (AMS), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and
SPIE - The International Society for Optics, from which he received the 2002
Wavelet Pioneer Award.