Short Biography

 

Dr. Justin Romberg is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Romberg received the B.S.E.E. (1997), M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees from Rice University in Houston, Texas. From Fall 2003 until Fall 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He spent the Summer of 2000 as a researcher at Xerox PARC, the Fall of 2003 as a visitor at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions in Paris, and the Fall of 2004 as a Fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. In the Fall of 2006, he joined the Georgia Tech ECE faculty. In 2008 he received an ONR Young Investigator Award, in 2009 he received a PECASE award and a Packard Fellowship, and in 2010 he was named a Rice University Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus. In 2006-2007 he was a consultant for the TV show “Numb3rs”.  He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2008-2011, the SIAM Journal on Imaging Science from 2013-2018, and the SIAM Journal on the Mathematics of Data Science from 2018-present.  In 2018, he was named an IEEE Fellow, and in 2021 he was awarded the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal.