Biography
Richard G. Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University.
Dr. Baraniuk received a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba in 1987 and a M.Sc. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992 under the supervision of Douglas L. Jones. After spending 1992-1993 at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France, he joined Rice University.
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Baraniuk has been active in the development of digital signal processing and image processing systems, with numerous contributions to the theory of wavelets and compressive sensing. His work with Kevin Kelly on the Rice "single-pixel camera" applied the ideas of compressive sensing to design a novel imaging system that was selected by Technology Review Magazine as a TR10 Top 10 Emerging Technology in 2007.
Baraniuk is a founder and leader of the open education movement, which aims to share knowledge and teaching materials freely over the internet. In 1999, Baraniuk launched Connexions, one of the first initiatives to offer free, open source textbooks via the web. Connexions continues to be one of the largest and most used open education platforms worldwide.
Baraniuk's own textbook, "Signals and Systems," has generated 4.5 million page views including a very popular translation into Spanish. Connexions has also provided an all-digital platform to relaunch the Rice University Press. In 2006 Baraniuk delivered a lecture on Connexions at TED. He has been an active popularizer of open education and was also one of the framers of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration.
Baraniuk has received numerous awards, including a NATO postdoctoral fellowship from NSERC in 1992, the National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation in 1994, a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 1995, the Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University in 1998, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2000, and the Wavelet Pioneer Award from SPIE in 2008.
Connexions received the Tech Museum Laureate Award from the Tech Museum of Innovation in 2006, and Baraniuk was selected as one of Edutopia Magazine's Daring Dozen educators in 2007. In 2008, Baraniuk received the Internet Pioneer Award from Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and in 2009 he received the World Technology Award for education.
Baraniuk was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.
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