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]

Vivek K Goyal
Born
Alma materUniversity of Iowa
University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsSignal processing
Computational imaging
Information theory
InstitutionsBoston University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bell Labs
Doctoral advisorMartin Vetterli

Education and career

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "These 19 Charles River Campus Faculty Have Been Promoted to Rank of Full Professor". BU Today. 26 May 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. ^ "IEEE Fellows 2014". IEEE Fellows Directory. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  3. ^ "2020 OSA Fellows". The Optical Society. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  4. ^ "2022 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council". Science. 379 (6634): 768–772. 23 Feb 2023. doi:10.1126/science.adh2210.
  5. ^ "Announcing the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows". 11 April 2024.
  6. ^ Northern University High School (1988-01-01). "1988 Reach for the Stars". Malcolm Price Laboratory School Yearbooks.
  7. ^ "EECS names Berggren, Goyal and Stultz to Career Development Professorships". Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. 12 July 2007. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Vivek Goyal". Boston University. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  9. ^ Kwasinski, Andres (January 2016). "Foundations of Signal Processing [Book Reviews]". IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 33 (1): 163–164. Bibcode:2016ISPM...33..163K. doi:10.1109/MSP.2015.2470455. ISSN 1053-5888. S2CID 21960569.
  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. 343 (6166): 58–61. Bibcode:2014Sci...343...58K. doi:10.1126/science.1246775. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24292628. S2CID 25885022.
  11. ^ Cowen, Ron (2013). "Stealth camera takes pictures virtually in the dark". Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.14260. S2CID 124395359.
  12. ^ "Camera takes 3D photos in the dark". BBC News. 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  13. ^ Saunders, Charles; Murray-Bruce, John; Goyal, Vivek K (24 January 2019). "Computational periscopy with an ordinary digital camera". Nature. 565 (7740): 472–475. Bibcode:2019Natur.565..472S. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0868-6. hdl:2144/39239. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 30675042. S2CID 59159867.
  14. ^ "A camera that can see round corners". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  15. ^ Castelvecchi, Davide (2019-01-23). "How an ordinary camera can see around corners". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00267-x. S2CID 187966121.
  16. ^ Hecht, Jeff. "A Simple Camera and an Algorithm Let You See around Corners". Scientific American. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  17. ^ "How to see what is hidden from view". The Economist. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  18. ^ "Google Patents". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  19. ^ "Eli Jury Award". Berkeley EECS Department. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  20. ^ "IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award" (PDF). Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  21. ^ "3dim wins MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition". MIT News. 17 May 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  22. ^ Cognazzo, Marco. "Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award Winners". IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  23. ^ "Past Distinguished Lecturers". IEEE Signal Processing Society. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  24. ^ "IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award" (PDF). IEEE Signal Processing Society. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  25. ^ "Draper Fellow Earns Top Honors in Computational Photography". Draper Laboratory. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  26. ^ "Inside Signal Processing Newsletter". IEEE Signal Processing Society. January 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  27. ^ "IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award" (PDF). Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  28. ^ "Frontiers of Science Award". International Congress of Basic Science. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
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