Richard G. Baraniuk is the C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, a member of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) research group, a member of the Ken Kennedy Institute, the Founder/Director of OpenStax, and the Principal Investigator and Director of SafeInsights, NSF's national research infrastructure for learning and education. He is also a joint faculty member in the Rice departments of Computer Science and Statistics.

Dr. Baraniuk is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and IEEE. He has received the DOD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow Award (National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship), the IEEE Signal Processing Society Norbert Wiener Society Award and Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award, the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, and the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, among others.