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• 11 Apr 2024:  Vivek Goyal has been named a Guggenheim Fellow in the Class of 2024.
• 16 Jul 2023:  Vivek Goyal and coauthors have been awarded a 2023 Frontiers of Science Award in Computational Optics for "Quantum-inspired computational imaging," which appeared in Science in 2018.
• 31 Jan 2023:  Vivek Goyal has been named a AAAS Fellow in the Class of 2022 for "distinguished contributions to the field of computational imaging and sensing, particularly for advancing the understanding of the information content of weak, mixed, and indirect optical measurements."
• 20 Dec 2022:  William Krska has been awarded a 2023 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Honorable Mention, largely for his ICCP 2022 paper, "Double Your Corners, Double Your Fun: The Doorway Camera."
• 11 Aug 2021:  Sheila Seidel successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Edge-Resolved Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging." The presentation is available on YouTube.
• 7 Jul 2022:  Minxu Peng successfully defended her PhD dissertation, now posted online, "Computational Particle Beam Microscopy."
• 16 Dec 2021:  Joshua Rapp has been awarded a 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best PhD Dissertation Award for "Probabilistic Modeling for Single-Photon Lidar."
• 2 Jul 2021:  Joshua Rapp presents the Grundfest Imaging Lecture at UCLA.
• 20 Jun 2021:  Sheila Seidel was an invited speaker in the Computational Cameras and Displays Workshop associated with CVPR 2021. Her talk is available on YouTube.
• 30 Apr 2021:  Luisa Watkins successfully defended her Senior Honors Thesis, now posted on arXiv, "Mitigating Current Variation in Particle Beam Microscopy." The presentation is available on YouTube.
• 30 Apr 2021:  Charles Saunders successfully defended his PhD dissertation, now posted online, "Occluder-Aided Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging." The presentation is available on YouTube.
• 11 Dec 2020:  Joshua Rapp has been awarded a 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for "A Few Photons Among Many: Unmixing Signal and Noise for Photon-Efficient Active Imaging," coauthored with Vivek Goyal.
• 15 May 2020:  Joshua Rapp has been awarded the 2020 BU Outstanding Electrical Engineering Dissertation Award for "Probabilistic Modeling for Single-Photon Lidar".
• 8 May 2020:  Dongeek Shin, Ahmed Kirmani, Jeff Shapiro, and Vivek Goyal have been awarded a 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for "Photon-Efficient Computational 3D and Reflectivity Imaging with Single-Photon Detectors."
• 8 Jan 2020:  Rishabh Bose has been named a Top 300 Scholar in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for a project completed in the STIR group as a participant in the BU RISE program. The project resulted in the the paper "Multi-Depth Computational Periscopy with an Ordinary Camera" at IEEE ICASSP 2020.
• 1 Nov 2019:  Vivek Goyal has been named an OSA Fellow in the Class of 2020 "for outstanding inventions in computational imaging and sensing, including unprecedented demonstrations of the utility of weak, mixed, and indirect optical measurements." He was previously named an IEEE Fellow in the Class of 2014 "for contributions to information representations and their applications in acquisition, communication, and estimation."

Key papers 2021-present

• Shot Noise-Mitigated Secondary Electron Imaging with Ion Count-Aided Microscopy
  A. Agarwal, L. Kasei, X. He, R. Kitichotkul, O. K. Hitit, M. Peng, J. A. Schultz, L. C. Feldman, and V. K. Goyal, Proc. National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 121, no. 31, article e2401246121, 25 Jul 2024.
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2401246121
• Seeing Around Corners with Edge-Resolved Transient Imaging
  J. Rapp, C. Saunders, J. Tachella, J. Murray-Bruce, Y. Altmann, J.-Y. Tourneret, S. McLaughlin, R. M. A. Dawson, F. N. C. Wong, and V. K. Goyal, Nature Communications, vol. 11, art. no. 5929, 23 Nov 2020.
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39327-2
• Double Your Corners, Double Your Fun: The Doorway Camera
  W. Krska, S. W. Seidel, C. Saunders, R. Czajkowski, C. Yu, J. Murray-Bruce, and V. K. Goyal, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Computational Imaging, 2022.
• Fast Computational Periscopy in Challenging Ambient Light Conditions through Optimized Preconditioning
  C. Saunders and V. K. Goyal, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Computational Imaging, 2021.
• Time-Resolved Focused Ion Beam Microscopy: Modeling, Estimation Methods, and Analyses
  M. Peng, J. Murray-Bruce, and V. K. Goyal, IEEE Trans. Computational Imaging, vol. 7, pp. 547-561, 2021.
• Compressively sampling the optical transmission matrix of a multimode fibre
  S. Li, C. Saunders, D. J. Lum, J. Murray-Bruce, V. K. Goyal, T. Čižmár, and D. B. Phillips, Light: Science & Applications, vol. 10, article no. 88, 21 Apr 2021.
• Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43 kilometers
  C. Wu, J. Liu, X. Huang, Z.-P. Li, C. Yu, J.-T. Ye, J. Zhang, Q. Zhang, X. Dou, V. K. Goyal, F. Xu and J.-W. Pan, Proc. National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 118, no. 10, article e2024468118, 9 Mar 2021.
• High-Flux Single-Photon Lidar
  J. Rapp, Y. Ma, R. M. A. Dawson, and V. K. Goyal, Optica, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 30-39, January 2021.
  DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.403190

Key papers 2016-2020

• Seeing Around Corners with Edge-Resolved Transient Imaging
  J. Rapp, C. Saunders, J. Tachella, J. Murray-Bruce, Y. Altmann, J.-Y. Tourneret, S. McLaughlin, R. M. A. Dawson, F. N. C. Wong, and V. K. Goyal, Nature Communications, vol. 11, art. no. 5929, 23 Nov 2020.
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19727-4
• Dithered Depth Imaging
  J. Rapp, R. M. A. Dawson, and V. K. Goyal, Optics Express, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 35143-35157, November 2020.
  DOI: 10.1364/OE.408800
• Source Shot Noise Mitigation in Focused Ion Beam Microscopy by Time-Resolved Measurement
  M. Peng, J. Murray-Bruce, K. K. Berggren, and V. K. Goyal, Ultramicroscopy, vol. 211, no. 112948, April 2020.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.112948
• Computational Periscopy with an Ordinary Digital Camera
  C. Saunders, J. Murray-Bruce, and V. K. Goyal, Nature, vol. 565, pp. 472-475, 24 Jan 2019.
  DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0868-6
• Quantum-Inspired Computational Imaging
  Y. Altmann, S. McLaughlin, M. J. Padgett, V. K. Goyal, A. O. Hero, and D. Faccio, Science, vol. 361, no. 6403, pp. 660, 17 Aug 2018.
  DOI: 10.1126/science.aat2298
  • Winner of a 2023 Frontiers of Science Award in Computational Optics
• A Few Photons Among Many: Unmixing Signal and Noise for Photon-Efficient Active Imaging
  J. Rapp and V. K. Goyal, IEEE Trans. Computational Imaging, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 445-459, September 2017.
  DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2017.2706028
  • Winner of a 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award
• Photon-Efficient Imaging with a Single-Photon Camera
  D. Shin, F. Xu, D. Venkatraman, R. Lussana, F. Villa, F. Zappa, V. K. Goyal, F. N. C. Wong, and J. H. Shapiro, Nature Communications, vol. 7, art. no. 12046, 24 Jun 2016.
  DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12046

A few key older papers

• Photon-Efficient Computational 3D and Reflectivity Imaging with Single-Photon Detectors
  D. Shin, A. Kirmani, V. K. Goyal, and J. H. Shapiro, IEEE Trans. Computational Imaging, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 112-125, June 2015.
  DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2015.2453093
  • Winner of a 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
• First-Photon Imaging
  A. Kirmani, D. Venkatraman, D. Shin, A. Colaço, F. N. C. Wong, J. H. Shapiro, V. K. Goyal, Science, vol. 343, no. 6166, pp. 58-61, 3 Jan 2014; published online in Science Express 29 Nov 2013.
  DOI: 10.1126/science.1246775
• Message-Passing De-Quantization with Applications to Compressed Sensing
  U. S. Kamilov, V. K. Goyal, and S. Rangan, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 6270-6281, December 2012.
  DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2012.2217334
  • Winner of a 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
• Asymptotic Analysis of MAP Estimation via the Replica Method and Applications to Compressed Sensing
  S. Rangan, A. K. Fletcher, and V. K. Goyal, IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 1902-1923, March 2012.
  DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2011.2177575
• Multiple Description Coding: Compression Meets the Network
  V. K. Goyal, IEEE Signal Processing Mag., vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 74-93, September 2001.
  DOI: 10.1109/79.952806
  • Winner of the 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Award

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