Ronald Schafer

Name: Ronald W. Schafer

Born: February 17, 1938, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, USA

Computer-related contributions

• American electrical engineer, professor, and author.
• Known for his work with digital signal processing and digital speech coding.
• Former engineer at Bell Laboratories Acoustics Research Department.
• Former professor in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Significant publications

• DSP First: A Multimedia Approach (1998).
• Computer-Based Exercises for Signal Processing Using MATLAB (1998).
• Discrete-Time Signal Processing (1989).
• Digital Processing of Speech Signals (1978).
• Digital Signal Processing (1975).

Honors and awards

• IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2010).
• IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1980).
• Received the IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award.
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
• Vice-President and President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
• Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.