Richard Baraniuk

Richard Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the founder of Connexions (www.cnx.org). For his research in signal processing, he has received national research awards from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. He has also received the Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University, the ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois, the SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award, an MIT Technology Review TR10 Top 10 Emerging Technology award, and several best paper awards. For his education projects, he has received the Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teaching Award, the Tech Museum Laureate Award, the Internet Pioneer Award from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and the World Technology Network Education Award. He has been selected as one of Edutopia Magazine's Daring Dozen Education Innovators and elected a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS.