Robert Nowak received the B.S., M.S., and
Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively. He was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University in 1995-1996, an Assistant
Professor at Michigan State University from
1996-1999, held Assistant and Associate Professor positions at
Rice University from 1999-2003, and is now the McFarland-Bascom
Professor of Engineering
at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Nowak has held visiting positions at
INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (2001), and Trinity College, Cambridge (2010).
He has served as an Associate Editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Image
Processing and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and as the
Secretary of the SIAM Activity
Group on Imaging Science. He was General Chair for the 2007 IEEE
Statistical Signal Processing
workshop and Technical Program
Chair for the 2003 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop
and the 2004 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Information Processing
in
Sensor Networks. Professor Nowak received the General Electric Genius
of
Invention Award (1993), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award
(1997), the Army
Research Office Young Investigator Program Award (1999), the
Office of
Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award (2000), the IEEE
Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (2000), the
IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2011), and the ASPRS
Talbert Abrams Paper Award (2012).
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE). His research interests include signal processing, machine
learning, imaging and network science, and applications in
communications, bioimaging, and systems biology. His Google
Scholar page contains further information about his research and
publications.