After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, he joined the Acoustics Research Department at Bell Laboratories, where he did research on digital signal processing and digital speech coding.
In 1974 he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he became a professor in Electrical Engineering, until leaving to join Hewlett Packard in March 2005. He has served as Associate Editor of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing and as Vice-President and President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
He has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award, the 1980 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Emanuel R. Piore Award, the Distinguished Professor Award at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the 1992 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Education Medal and the 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Meda
Books Digital Signal Processing, A. V. Oppenheim, R. W. Schafer, Prentice Hall, 1975 Digital Processing of Speech Signals, L. Rabiner, R. W. Schafer, Pearson Education, 1978. Discrete-Time Signal Processing, A. V. Oppenheim, R. W. Schafer, Prentice Hall, 1989. Computer-Based Exercises for Signal Processing Using MATLAB, J. H. McClellan, C. S. Burrus, A. V. Oppenheim, T. W. Parks, R. W. Schafer, H. W. Schuessler, Prentice Hall, 1998 DSP First: A Multimedia Approach J. H. McClellan, R. W. Schafer, M. A. Yoder, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998. Signal Processing First J. H. McClellan, R. W. Schafer, M. A. Yoder, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2003.
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