Tor A. Ramstad was born in Norway in 1942. He received his Siv.Ing. and Dr.Ing. 
degrees in
1968 and 1971, respectively, both from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. (Now part of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).) He has held various positions at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
at the
same university. Since 1983 he has been a full professor of
Telecommunications. During the academic year 1982-83 he was  visiting associate
professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and he was with the Georgia
Institute of Technology in 1989-90 as  visiting adjunct professor. Again at UCSB in 
1997-98, and finally at EURECOM, France in 2003-04 as  visiting professor. 
 He was  associate editor of IEEE Transactions on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, and a member of the IEEE DSP
Technical Committee. He chaired the Doctoral Committee at the Norwegian Institute of
Technology NTH. Dr. Ramstad is a member of the 
Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences and NORSIG.
His research interests are
in the fields of multirate signal processing, speech and image processing with 
emphasis on
compression, and joint source-channel coding.