Rice University

Richard G. Baraniuk received the B.Sc. degree in 1987 from the University of Manitoba, the M.Sc. degree in 1988 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in Electrical Engineering. After spending 1992-1993 at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France, he joined Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he is currently the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Engineering. He is currently an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis.

In 1999, he launched Connexions, a non-profit publishing project that aims to bring textbooks and learning materials into the Internet Age. Connexions makes high-quality educational content available to anyone, anywhere, anytime for free on the web and at very low cost in print by inviting authors, educators, and learners worldwide to "create, rip, mix, and burn" textbooks, courses, and learning materials from its global open-access repository.

His research interests lie in the areas of signal and image processing and communications networks and include wavelets, natural image modeling, sensor networks, time-frequency analysis, and compressive sensing.

Awards received: NATO postdoctoral fellowship from NSERC (1992)
National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation (1994)
Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (1995)
Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University (1998)
C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teaching Award from Eta Kappa Nu (1999)
Charles Duncan Junior Faculty Achievement Award from Rice (2000)
University of Illinois ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award (2000)
George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice (2001, 2003, & 2006)
IEEE Signal Processing Society Junior Paper Award (with Matthew Crouse & Robert Nowak, 2001)
PAM Workshop Best Student Paper Award (with Vinay Ribeiro & Rolf Riedi, 2003)
Fellow of the IEEE (2001)