Eve Ann Riskin is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator, the dean for undergraduate education at the

Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of Technology is a Private university, private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. Founded in 1870, it is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States and was the first college in America solely de ...

. Her research has concerned

image compression Image compression is a type of data compression applied to digital images, to reduce their cost for computer data storage, storage or data transmission, transmission. Algorithms may take advantage of visual perception and the statistical properti ...

and

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, focusing in particular on the video transmission of

American Sign Language American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canadians, Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that i ...

over low-bandwidth networks.

Education and career

Riskin is originally from the Lawrenceville section of

Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey Lawrence Township is a Township (New Jersey), township in Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located at the cross-roads between the Delaware River, Delaware Valley region to the southwest and the Raritan R ...

.''Annual Commencement: Order of Exercises''

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, p. 76, 1987. Accessed September 4, 2024. "Eve Ann Riskin, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Dissertation: ''Variable Rate Quntization of Images''" After starting in computer science, she switched to electrical engineering as an undergraduate at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

, and graduated in 1984. She then went to

for graduate study, earning two master's degrees in electrical engineering and

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

in 1985 and 1986 respectively, and completing her Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1990. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Variable Rate Vector Quantization of Images'', was supervised by

Robert M. Gray Robert M. Gray (born November 1, 1943) is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and co ...

. She became an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the

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in 1990. At the University of Washington, she became associate dean of engineering in 2005, led the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change, and founded the Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) program for disadvantaged students. She moved to the Stevens Institute of Technology as dean for undergraduate education and professor of electrical engineering in 2022.

Recognition

Riskin was elected as an

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

in 2009, "for contributions to variable-rate image and video compression and to engineering education". She was a 2020 recipient of the

Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) is a Presidential award established by the United States White House in 1995. The program is administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riskin, Eve Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey Engineers from New Jersey American electrical engineers American women electrical engineers Data compression researchers People involved with sign language Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Stanford University alumni University of Washington faculty Stevens Institute of Technology faculty Fellows of the IEEE