C. Sidney Burrus is the Maxfield-Oshman Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Senior Strategist of the Connexions Project, and Research Professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Over the last 40 years, he has been Dean of Engineering, Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, and Director of a Research Institute at Rice. He has authored five books and over 250 articles on Digital Signal Processing, received teaching awards from Rice, and received research awards from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and others. His research has been supported by the NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, NASA, and industrial grants. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS, received the IEEE Kilby Medal, and received the Association of Rice Alumni Gold Medal.

The Connexions Project started in 1999 at Rice University to apply modern technology and theory to education. It has grown to be one of the most used Open Educational Resources (OER) in the world. Burrus has been closely involved with it since its founding and has lectured and published widely on it.

Professor Burrus received his PhD from Stanford, has held visiting positions at MIT and the University of Erlangen in Germany, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Beijing Jiaotong University. He was on the Founding Committee for the new private university in Bremen, Germany, International University Bremen (now named Jacobs University) and is a Consultant on the founding of Tan Tao University in Vietnam.