Bienert joins CU Boulder’s Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
The Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at CU 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!
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.
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 CU 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 CU 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 CU 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.
CU 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.”
