Vivek Goyal Explained

Vivek K Goyal
Birth Place:Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.
Workplaces:Boston University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bell Labs
Alma Mater:University of Iowa
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral Advisor:Martin Vetterli
Fields:Signal processing
Computational imaging
Information theory

Vivek K Goyal is an American engineering professor, author, and inventor. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University (BU).[1] He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014[2] and named OSA (now Optica) Fellow in the 2020 class.[3] He was also named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the 2022 class.[4] He is a recipient of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.[5]

Education and career

Goyal attended Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls, Iowa, through graduation from its Northern University High School division.[6] He received BS and BSE degrees from the University of Iowa in 1993 and MS and PhD degrees from University of California, Berkeley, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2000 he served as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, 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, including holding the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.[7] He has been with Boston University since 2016, after two years with the Nest Labs division of Alphabet Inc.[8]

Scientific contributions

Goyal coauthored the 2014 textbook Foundations of Signal Processing with Martin Vetterli and Jelena Kovačević, which was reviewed in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.[9]

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[10] resulted in widespread news coverage.[11] [12]

In an article published in Nature in 2019,[13] Goyal's group introduced a method for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) 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.[14] [15] [16] He later collaborated on work that extended laser-based NLOS imaging to 1.43 km stand-off distance.[17]

U.S. patents have been issued for 21 of Goyal's inventions.[18]

Awards and honors

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 26 May 2020. These 19 Charles River Campus Faculty Have Been Promoted to Rank of Full Professor. 2 July 2020. BU Today.
  2. Web site: IEEE Fellows 2014. IEEE Fellows Directory. 2 December 2019.
  3. Web site: 2020 OSA Fellows. 2 July 2020. The Optical Society.
  4. Web site: 23 Feb 2023 . 2022 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council . live.
  5. Web site: 11 April 2024 . Announcing the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows . live.
  6. Northern University High School. 1988-01-01. 1988 Reach for the Stars. Malcolm Price Laboratory School Yearbooks.
  7. Web site: 12 July 2007. EECS names Berggren, Goyal and Stultz to Career Development Professorships. 2 July 2020. Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT.
  8. Web site: Vivek Goyal. Boston University. 2 December 2019.
  9. Kwasinski. Andres. January 2016. Foundations of Signal Processing [Book Reviews]]. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 33. 1. 163–164. 10.1109/MSP.2015.2470455. 2016ISPM...33..163K . 21960569. 1053-5888.
  10. Kirmani. Ahmed. Venkatraman. Dheera. Shin. Dongeek. Colaço. Andrea. Wong. Franco N. C.. Shapiro. Jeffrey H.. Goyal. Vivek K.. 2014-01-03. First-Photon Imaging. Science. en. 343. 6166. 58–61. 10.1126/science.1246775. 0036-8075. 24292628. 2014Sci...343...58K . 25885022.
  11. Cowen. Ron. Stealth camera takes pictures virtually in the dark. Nature News. 2013. en. 10.1038/nature.2013.14260. 124395359.
  12. News: 2013-12-02. Camera takes 3D photos in the dark. en-GB. BBC News. 2020-07-02.
  13. Saunders. Charles. Murray-Bruce. John. Goyal. Vivek K. 24 January 2019. Computational periscopy with an ordinary digital camera. Nature. en. 565. 7740. 472–475. 10.1038/s41586-018-0868-6. 30675042. 2019Natur.565..472S . 1476-4687. 2144/39239. 59159867. free.
  14. News: A camera that can see round corners. The Economist. 2020-07-02. 0013-0613.
  15. Castelvecchi. Davide. 2019-01-23. How an ordinary camera can see around corners. Nature. en. 10.1038/d41586-019-00267-x. 187966121 .
  16. Web site: Hecht. Jeff. A Simple Camera and an Algorithm Let You See around Corners. 2020-07-02. Scientific American. en.
  17. Web site: 18 March 2021 . How to see what is hidden from view . live . 21 July 2024 . The Economist.
  18. Web site: Google Patents. 2020-07-02. patents.google.com.
  19. Web site: Eli Jury Award. 2 July 2020. Berkeley EECS Department.
  20. Web site: IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award. 2 July 2020.
  21. Web site: 3dim wins MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. 2 July 2020. MIT News. 17 May 2013 .
  22. Web site: Cognazzo. Marco. Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award Winners. 2 July 2020. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.
  23. Web site: Past Distinguished Lecturers. 2 July 2020. IEEE Signal Processing Society. 16 December 2015 .
  24. Web site: IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. 2 July 2020. IEEE Signal Processing Society.
  25. Web site: 12 June 2018. Draper Fellow Earns Top Honors in Computational Photography. 2 July 2020. Draper Laboratory.
  26. Web site: January 2020. Inside Signal Processing Newsletter. 2 July 2020. IEEE Signal Processing Society.
  27. Web site: IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. 15 July 2021.
  28. Web site: Frontiers of Science Award . live . 21 July 2024 . International Congress of Basic Science.

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