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Richard G. Baraniuk

Richard G. Baraniuk

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Computer Science
USA
2026
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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
120
Citations
76110
World Ranking
144
National Ranking
84

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
113
Citations
67991
World Ranking
87
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard G. Baraniuk is affiliated with Rice University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, and Statistics and Probability.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics within these areas, including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications

Baraniuk's publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • "Deep Learning Techniques for Inverse Problems in Imaging" (2020, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory)
  • "Current progress and open challenges for applying deep learning across the biosciences" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Clustering earthquake signals and background noises in continuous seismic data with unsupervised deep learning" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Dual Dynamic Inference: Enabling More Efficient, Adaptive, and Controllable Deep Inference" (2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing)
  • "The science of deep learning" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Randall Balestriero
  • Shashank Sonkar
  • Naiming Liu
  • Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun
  • Zichao Wang

The venues where Baraniuk has published regularly include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  • SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory

Richard G. Baraniuk has received recognition from several organizations, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2016)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)

Best Publications

  • Compressive Sensing [Lecture Notes]

    R.G. Baraniuk

  • Single-Pixel Imaging via Compressive Sampling

    M.F. Duarte;M.A. Davenport;D. Takhar;J.N. Laska

  • The dual-tree complex wavelet transform

    I.W. Selesnick;R.G. Baraniuk;N.C. Kingsbury

  • A Simple Proof of the Restricted Isometry Property for Random Matrices

    Richard G. Baraniuk;Mark A. Davenport;Ronald A. DeVore;Michael B. Wakin

  • Wavelet-based statistical signal processing using hidden Markov models

    M.S. Crouse;R.D. Nowak;R.G. Baraniuk

  • Model-Based Compressive Sensing

    R.G. Baraniuk;V. Cevher;M.F. Duarte;C. Hegde

  • Beyond Nyquist: Efficient Sampling of Sparse Bandlimited Signals

    J.A. Tropp;J.N. Laska;M.F. Duarte;J.K. Romberg

  • Compressive Radar Imaging

    R. Baraniuk;P. Steeghs

  • pathChirp: Efficient available bandwidth estimation for network paths

    Vinay J. Ribeiro;Jiri Navratil;Rudolf H. Riedi;Richard G. Baraniuk

  • Material parameter estimation with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

    Timothy D. Dorney;Richard G. Baraniuk;Daniel M. Mittleman

  • Recent advances in terahertz imaging

    D.M. Mittleman;M. Gupta;R. Neelamani;R.G. Baraniuk

  • A single-pixel terahertz imaging system based on compressed sensing

    Wai Lam Chan;Kriti Charan;Dharmpal Takhar;Kevin F. Kelly

  • A multifractal wavelet model with application to network traffic

    R.H. Riedi;M.S. Crouse;V.J. Ribeiro;R.G. Baraniuk

  • Fast Alternating Direction Optimization Methods

    Tom Goldstein;Brendan O'Donoghue;Simon Setzer;Richard G. Baraniuk

  • 1-Bit compressive sensing

    P.T. Boufounos;R.G. Baraniuk

  • A new compressive imaging camera architecture using optical-domain compression

    Dharmpal Takhar;Jason N. Laska;Michael B. Wakin;Marco F. Duarte

  • Bayesian tree-structured image modeling using wavelet-domain hidden Markov models

    J.K. Romberg;Hyeokho Choi;R.G. Baraniuk

  • Signal Processing With Compressive Measurements

    M.A. Davenport;P.T. Boufounos;M.B. Wakin;R.G. Baraniuk

  • Robust 1-Bit Compressive Sensing via Binary Stable Embeddings of Sparse Vectors

    L. Jacques;J. N. Laska;P. T. Boufounos;R. G. Baraniuk

  • From Denoising to Compressed Sensing

    Christopher A. Metzler;Arian Maleki;Richard G. Baraniuk

  • Compressive sensing

    R. Baraniuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. Wakin
Michael B. Wakin Colorado School of Mines
Marco F. Duarte
Marco F. Duarte University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mark A. Davenport
Mark A. Davenport Georgia Institute of Technology
Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan Carnegie Mellon University
Rudolf H. Riedi
Rudolf H. Riedi Rice University
Robert Nowak
Robert Nowak University of Wisconsin–Madison
Douglas L. Jones
Douglas L. Jones University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ashok Veeraraghavan
Ashok Veeraraghavan Rice University
Petros T. Boufounos
Petros T. Boufounos Mitsubishi Electric (United States)

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