Venugopal V VeeravalliVenugopal V. Veeravalli is the Henry Magnuski Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include statistical inference and machine learning, detection and estimation theory, and informationtheory, with applications to data science, wireless communications and sensor networks. Veeravalli is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Among the awards he has received are the IEEE Browder J. Thompson Best Paper Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and the Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis. Read More Read Less