Vivek Goyal

Vivek K Goyal received the B.S. degree in mathematics and the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering (both with highest distinction) from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, in 1993. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He was a Member of Technical Staff in the Mathematics of Communications Research Department of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 1998–2001; and a Senior Research Engineer for Digital Fountain, Inc., 2001–2003. He is currently an Assistant Professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include source coding theory, sampling, quantization, and information gathering and dispersal in networks. He is a member of IEEE, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and SIAM. In 1998, he received the Eliahu Jury Award of the University of California, Berkeley, awarded to a graduate student or recent alumnus for outstanding achievement in systems, communications, control, or signal processing. He was also awarded the 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Award. He serves on the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Image and Multiple Dimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee and as a permanent Conference Cochair of the SPIEWavelets conference series.

Biography Updated on 30 June 2005