Vivek K Goyal is an American engineering professor, author, and inventor. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

(BU). He was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE) in 2014 ''for contributions to information representations and their applications in acquisition, communication, and estimation''. He was named

OSA Fellow The Optica Fellow is a membership designation of Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA)) that denotes distinguished scientific accomplishment. The bylaws of this society only allow 10% of its membership to be designated as an Opti ...

in the 2020 class ''for outstanding inventions in computational imaging and sensing, including unprecedented demonstrations of the utility of weak, mixed, and indirect optical measurements''. He is also a member of the

IEEE Information Theory Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

Education and career

Goyal attended Malcolm Price Laboratory School in

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, through graduation from its

Northern University High School Northern University High School was a small high school in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States, run by the University of Northern Iowa. It comprised grades 9-12 of the Pk-12 Malcolm Price Laboratory School. It closed in July 2012 under controversy ...

division. He received BS and BSE degrees from the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is org ...

in 1993 and MS and PhD degrees from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2000 he served as a Member of Technical Staff at

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

, and from 2001 to 2003 served as a Senior Research Engineer at Digital Fountain. He returned to UC Berkeley in 2003 as a visiting scholar, and from 2004 to 2013 was with the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, including holding the Esther and

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chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been with

since 2016, after two years with the

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division of

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Scientific contributions

Goyal coauthored the 2014 textbook
Foundations of Signal Processing
' with

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and Jelena Kovačević. The book was blurbed by notable educators and researchers in the field of signal processing, Yoram Bresler, Robert M. Gray,

Stéphane Mallat Stéphane Georges Mallat (born 24 October 1962) is a French applied mathematician, concurrently appointed as Professor at Collège de France and École normale supérieure. He made fundamental contributions to the development of wavelet theory in ...

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, Robert D. Nowak, Antonio Ortega, and

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, and favorably reviewed in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. In 2013, Goyal's group invented ''first-photon imaging'', a method to generate 3D depth and reflectivity images from exactly one detected photon per pixel, even when up to half of the detected photons are due to ambient light. Publication of an article introducing the method in ''Science'' resulted in widespread news coverage. In an article published in ''Nature'' in 2019, Goyal's group introduced a method for non-line-of-sight imaging that uses only an ordinary digital camera. This contrasts with many earlier methods that use pulsed laser illumination and detectors sensitive to single photons. U.S. patents have been issued for 19 of Goyal's inventions.

Awards and honors

* 1998

Eliahu I. Jury Eliahu Ibrahim Jury (May 23, 1923 – September 20, 2020) was an Iraqi-born American engineer. He received his Doctor of Engineering Science degree from Columbia University of New York City in 1953. He was professor of electrical engineering at ...

Award of the

for outstanding achievement in the area of systems, communications, control, or signal processing * 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Award for '' Multiple Description Coding: Compression Meets the Network'' * 2013

MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is a student-managed business plan competition, where undergraduates and postgraduates from various programs and all levels at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT) organize and enter the comp ...

Launch Contest Grand Prize for 3dim * 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Best Paper Award * IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer 2017-2018 * 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for '' Message-Passing De-Quantization with Applications to Compressed Sensing'' * 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography Best Poster Award * 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for '' Photon-Efficient Computational 3D and Reflectivity Imaging with Single-Photon Detectors'' *2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for ''A Few Photons Among Many: Unmixing Signal and Noise for Photon-Efficient Active Imaging'' (co-author with Joshua Rapp)

References

External links

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Foundations of Signal Processing
'
Vivek Goyal
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