Ahmed I. Zayed

Ahmed I. Zayed is an Egyptian American mathematician focusing on mathematical analysis and its applications. He is a professor at DePaul University and chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the DePaul College of Science and Health.

Education and career
Zayed earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Cairo University in 1970 and 1974. He completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1979. His dissertation, Generalized Functions and Boundary Value Problems, was jointly supervised by Gilbert G. Walter and Marya Alin Ziko.

He was on the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, joining the university as an assistant professor in 1980 and subsequently promoted to associate and full professor. He moved to the University of Central Florida in 1990, and to his current position as professor and chair at DePaul in 2001.

Books
Zayed is the author of books including:
 * Advances in Shannon's Sampling Theory (CRC Press, 1993)
 * Handbook of Function and Generalized Function Transformations (CRC Press, 1996)
 * Fractional Integral Transforms: Theory and Applications (CRC Press, 2024)

His edited volumes include:
 * Sampling, Wavelets, and Tomography (with John J. Benedetto, Birkhäuser, 2004)
 * Multiscale Signal Analysis and Modeling (with Xiaoping Shen, Springer, 2013)