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) Edutopia Magazine Daring Dozen educator (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) AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2023) Richard G. Baraniuk is the C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, the founder and Director of the open education initiative OpenStax (formerly called Connexions), and the founder and Director of the learning science and education research infrastructure SafeInsights.

He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992 under the supervision of Douglas L.

[1] After spending 1992-1993 at École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France working with Patrick Flandrin, he joined Rice University.

45 granted US and foreign patents on compressive sensing and machine learning were licensed by Siemens in 2016 to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

In 1999, Baraniuk launched "Connexions" (which was later re-named "OpenStax CNX"), one of the first initiatives to offer free, open-source textbooks via the web.

[8] As of September 2018[update], Baraniuk's own OpenStax CNX textbook, "Signals and Systems," has generated 9 million page views including a very popular translation into Spanish.