Demba E. Ba
Nonlinear Transform Coding with Lossless Polar Coordinates, S.M. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, June 2006.

Demba graduated with honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. As a member of STIR, he investigated the use of integer-to-integer transform coding for non-Gaussian sources. He completed a Ph.D. at MIT and is currently on the faculty of Harvard University.