Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, has been named recipient of the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for "contributions to the theory and applications of sparsity and compressive sensing."

The Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field.  The award will be presented at ICASSP 2015 in Brisbane, Australia, where Baraniuk is also a plenary speaker presenting his work on machine learning for open education.