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Vivek K Goyal
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vgoyal@mit.edu | RLE Biography

Dr. 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. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where in 1998, he received the Eliahu Jury Award for outstanding
achievement in systems, communications, control, or signal processing.

He was a Research Assistant in the Laboratoire de Communications Audiovisuelles at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1996. He worked in the Mathematics of Communications Research Department of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as an intern in 1997 and again as a Member of Technical Staff from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003 he was a Senior Research Engineer for Digital Fountain, Inc., Fremont, CA. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 and currently holds an Esther and Harold E. Edgerton chair.  His research interests include source coding theory, quantization theory, and practical, robust network content delivery.

Dr. Goyal is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and SIAM. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves on the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Image and Multiple Dimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee.  He also serves on several technical program committees and as a permanent Co-Chair of the SPIE Wavelets conference series.

He was awarded the 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Award for "Multiple Description Coding: Compression Meets the Network'' and an NSF CAREER Award.

Details on research, teaching and publications are available in other portions of this web site.  Dr. Goyal's main professional service activities are:

Dr. Goyal's collaborators and coauthors include:

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