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The Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at ����ֱ�� Boulder is excited in welcoming Nicole Bienert to our teaching and research community.��

Bienert is joining as an assistant professor in the electromagnetics research area starting fall 2024. Welcome, Nicole!
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Bio: Nicole Bienert received her PhD and master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford University and her Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering with a minor in physics from the Schreyer Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University.��

Throughout her education, Nicole interned at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and after graduation, she joined Google as an equitable imaging researcher. She then returned to academia as a postdoc at the University of Southern California.
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Research Focus: Bienert is a computational imaging researcher in environmental radar remote sensing and computational photography. Her innovations in signal processing, inverse theory and instrumentation enable 2D-4D imaging at a quality, clarity, resolution, or spatial extent impossible with conventional imaging methods. Her work earned the 2020 IGARSS Prize Paper Award and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

What are you most excited about joining ����ֱ�� Engineering?
In returning to academia from industry, I am most excited about working with students again. I look forward to inspiring curiosity, creating career opportunities and promoting student success and well-being. The ����ֱ�� Engineering student body strikes me as a group passionate about innovation, exploration, creation, having an impact and the outdoors. This mindset resonates with me and forms an energy I look forward to using to help propel students along a successful educational journey.

Why ����ֱ�� Boulder?
My focus on environmental sensing requires easy access to diverse landscapes (e.g. mountains, forests, deserts and farmlands) which is provided in abundance by Boulder’s location. Additionally, I am an avid skier and outdoors enthusiast, so I look forward to exploring the beautiful Rocky Mountains and joining the outdoors community of Boulder.

��������ֱ�� Boulder is a world-class institution, particularly renowned for its electromagnetics/RF program. As an electromagnetics/RF researcher, I look forward to expanding on this successful program with distributed radar sensing and computational photography.”