Richard Baraniuk

Richard Baraniuk
Richard Baraniuk
	Baraniuk at the SPARC 2014 conference
Nationality	Canadian, American
Education	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1992); University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988); University of Manitoba (1987)
Known for	Wavelet theory, Compressive sensing, Machine learning, Deep learning, Open educational resources
Awards	ONR Young Investigator Award (1994) ; NSF National Young Investigator Award (1995) ; Rosenbaum Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge University) (1998) ; C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teaching Award (IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu) (1999) ; University of Illinois ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award (2000) ; Fellow of the IEEE (2001) ; One of Edutopia Magazine's Daring Dozen educators (2007) ; Wavelet Pioneer Award from SPIE (2008) ; Internet Pioneer Award from Berkman Center for Internet & Society (2008) ; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009) ; IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award (2010) ; WISE Education Award (2011) ; SPIE Compressive Sampling Pioneer Award (2012) ; Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (2014--2020) ; IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2014) ; IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal (2015) ; Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2016) ; Vannevar Bush Fellow (NSSEFF, 2017) ; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017) ; IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Best Paper Award (2021) ; Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education (2021) ; Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2022)
	Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineer, Mathematician
Institutions	Rice University
Doctoral advisor	Douglas L. Jones
Other academic advisors	Patrick Flandrin (postdoc)

Richard G. Baraniuk is the C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the Founder and Director of the open education initiative OpenStax (formerly called Connexions).