Bjorn Jawerth
Bio:
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Bjorn Jawerth is currently the David W. Robinson Palmetto chair professor at the University of South Carolina. He has held professor positions at the Lund Institute of Technology and Washington University in St. Louis. He is one of the initiators of wavelet theory and has authored more than seventy papers on this subject. His research interests include data compression, CAD, and Numerical Partial Differential Equations. He is the founder and CTO of Summus, Ltd., a company focused on developing new compression technologies and products.