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Philip Schniter is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS), a Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), a Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence, and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He served on the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (SPCOM) Technical Committee from 2005-2010, on the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee from 2013-2018, and on the IEEE Computational Imaging Technical Committee (CITC) from 2018-2023. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2005-2009 and for SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences from 2020-2025. For the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, he was Area Chair in 2011, Vice Technical Chair in 2012, Technical Chair in 2013, General Chair in 2016, and has served on the Steering Committee since 2018. For the International Biomedical and Astronomical Signal Processing (BASP) Frontiers workshop, he served as Signal Processing area chair from 2017-2025. For the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), he served as Area Chair in 2025. He has served on technical program committees for numerous other conferences, such as CAMSAP, ICASSP, GLOBALSIP, GLOBECOM, SAM, SPAWC, and SSP.

Dr. Schniter was awarded the 1999 Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Energy Development and Power Generation Committee for work relating to his M.S. thesis. While pursuing his Ph.D. degree, he received a Schlumberger Fellowship and an Intel Foundation Fellowship. In 2003, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and, in 2005, the OSU College of Engineering Lumley Research Award. With graduate student Adam Margetts, he co-authored a paper that was a finalist in the student paper contest at the IEEE ICASSP-2005 conference. With graduate student Arun Kannu, he co-authored a paper that was a winner in the student paper contest at the IEEE SPAWC-2005 conference. In 2012, his graduate student Justin Ziniel won First Place in the OSU Hayes Graduate Research Forum. With graduate student Jason Parker and collaborator Volkan Cevher, he won the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He won the Qualcomm Faculty Award in 2017 and 2018, and the OSU ECE Department Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020. As of 2026, ScholarGPS ranks his publication record in the the top 0.05% of Signal Processing and #1 globally in Message Passing.

Dr. Schniter's current research interests include machine learning, signal processing, and image processing. He has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, MIT Lincoln Labs, Motorola Labs, the Office of Naval Research, Qualcomm, and Sandia National Labs.