Richard G. Baraniuk

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Richard G. Baraniuk at a SPARC conference (2014)

Richard Gordon Baraniuk (* 1965 ) is a Canadian - American electrical engineer . He teaches and researches at Rice University and primarily deals with data , signal and image processing as well as machine learning . He is also committed to Open Educational Resources and is the founder and director of OpenStax CNX .

Career

Richard G. Baraniuk grew up in Winnipeg and attended the University of Manitoba , where he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1987 . Then he acquired in 1988 in technical computer science (Electrical and Computer Engineering) a Master from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States before 1992 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for Ph.D. received his doctorate . In his doctoral thesis he dealt with the time-frequency analysis of electrical signals ("Shear Madness: Signal-Dependent and Metaplectic Time-Frequency Representations") . As a post-doc , he spent a year at the École normal supérieure de Lyon before returning to the United States and taking on a position as assistant professor at Rice University in 1993 .

At Rice University, Baraniuk was promoted to a full professorship in 2000, which he has held since then; since 2004 under the title Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering . In 2001/02 he also spent a sabbatical at Télécom ParisTech and at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne .

Scientific work

Baraniuk mainly deals with data , signal and image processing , for example with compressed sensing or wavelets . Another focus is machine learning . He holds more than 30 patents and has published over 100 specialist articles so far, with his h -index being 96 (as of October 2017) and Thomson Reuters counting him among the Highly Cited Researchers in 2015 and 2016 .

Parallel to his academic work, Baraniuk is committed to the movement around Open Educational Resources , for example he founded the non-profit organization Connexions in 1999 ( OpenStax CNX since 2014 ) and its branch OpenStax in 2012 .

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2002) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 .

Web links

  • Profile on the website of Rice University (English)
  • Curriculum Vitae on the Rice University website (pdf format, English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 27, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Baraniuk, Richard G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baraniuk, Rich; Baraniuk, Richard Gordon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American electrical engineer and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965