Romit Roy Choudhury

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Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006

Biography

Romit Roy Choudhury is the Gilmore Family Endowed Professor of ECE and CS at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He joined UIUC from Fall 2013, prior to which he was an Associate Professor at Duke University. Romit received his PhD in the CS department of UIUC in Fall 2006. His current research interests are in generative models and (geometric) inverse problems; in the past, he has worked on wireless networking, sensing, and audio signal processing. With support from his excellent students (which he is very lucky to have), he has received a few research awards, including the ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award, the UIUC Distinguished Alumni Award, the Hoffner Krippner Innovation Award, the Google Research Award, etc. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2018. He is also an Amazon Scholar since 2022. Visit Romit's Signals and Inference Research Group (SiNRG) at http://sinrg.csl.illinois.edu

Academic Positions

• Amazon Scholar, Amazon, 2022 - present
• Visiting Principle Scientist, Samsung AI Center (SAIC), Cambridge, UK, Fall 2019.
• Professor, ECE and CS, University of Illinois, August 2017-present
• Visiting Researcher, Intel, Santa Clara, Summer 2016
• Associate Professor, ECE and CS, University of Illinois, 2013 to 2017
• Associate Professor, ECE and CS, Duke University, 2011 to 2013
• Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Summer 2010
• Assistant Professor, ECE and CS, Duke University, 2006 to 2011.

Documents

• updated-CV

Other Professional Activities

• Research Group: https://sinrg.csl.illinois.edu/
• Homepage: http://croy.web.engr.illinois.edu/

Research Interests

• Generative Models, Inverse Problems, NeRFs, Blackbox Optimization, Wireless Sensing, Signal Processing

Teaching Honors

• Campus List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Fall 2021
• Campus List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Fall 2020
• Campus List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Fall 2019
• Campus List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Fall 2018
• Campus List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Fall 2017
• Campus List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Fall 2015