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Dimitri Van De Ville (born 1975 in Dendermonde) is a Swiss and Belgian computer scientist and neuroscientist specialized in dynamical and network aspects of brain activity. He is a professor of bioengineering at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Medical Image Processing Laboratory at EPFL's School of Engineering. Van De Ville studied computer sciences at Ghent University and received his Master's degree suma cum lauda in 1998. He then pursued a PhD at the same institution and graduated in 2002 with a thesis on "Linear, nonlinear, and fuzzy image interpolation techniques" (Lineaire, niet-lineaire en vaaglogische beeldinterpolatietechnieken) that was supervised by Ignace Lemahieu and Wilfried Philips. He joined the EPFL as a post-doctoral researcher in Michael Unser's Biomedical Imaging Group. In 2005, he became group leader of the Signal Processing Core Geneva at the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging. In 2009, enabled by a SNSF Professorship Grant, he founded the Medical Image Processing Laboratory that is jointly held by EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering and the University of Geneva's Faculty of Medicine, and that is currently situated at the Campus Biotech in Geneva. In 2015, he was appointed tenured associate professor at EPFL with an adjunct appointment at the University of Geneva. Since 2015 he has been the head of the CIBM's Signal Processing Section, and since 2020 he has been the ad-interim head of CIBM's Animal Imaging & Technology Section. Van De Ville's research focuses on functional neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to measure dynamical and network aspects of human brain activity. He develops analysis methods at the interface of signal processing, data and network science, statistics, and applies them to investigate brain function. Van De Ville’s research interests through to the end of his post-doctoral studies were dedicated to wavelets and splines, specifically to hex-splines, isotropic polyharmonic B-spline wavelets, and operator wavelets.
