Victor Wickerhauser

Mladen Victor Wickerhauser was born in Zagreb, SR Croatia, in 1959. He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology and Yale University.

He is currently a professor of Mathematics^[1] in the Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and of Biomedical Engineering^[2] in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He has six U.S. patents^[3] and more than 100 publications.^[4] One of these, "Entropy-based Algorithms for Best Basis Selection," led to the Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) image compression algorithm, used by the FBI to encode fingerprint images.

Wickerhauser has been a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and has received the 2002 Wavelet Pioneer Award from SPIE.

Selected works

• Adapted Wavelet Analysis from Theory to Software (A K Peters, 1994) ISBN 1-56881-041-5
• Mathematics for Multimedia (Elsevier 2003, ISBN 0-12-748451-5) (Birkhaeuser 2009, ISBN 978-0-8176-4879-4)
• Introducing Financial Mathematics: Theory, Binomial Models, and Applications (Chapman and Hall/CRC 2023) ISBN 978-1-0323-5985-4