Jean-Philippe ThiranJean-Philippe Thiran was born in Namur, Belgium, in August 1970. He received the Electrical Engineering degree and the PhD degree from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, he was the co-ordinator of the medical image analysis group of the Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory at UCL, mainly working on medical image analysis. Dr Jean-Philippe Thiran joined the Signal Processing Institute (ITS) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in February 1998 as a senior lecturer. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2004, to Associate Professor in 2011 and is now a Full Professor since 2020. He also holds a 20% position at the Department of Radiology of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and of the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) as Associate Professor ad personam. Dr Thiran's current scientific interests include
Computational medical imaging: acquisition, reconstruction and analysis of imaging data, with emphasis on regularized linear inverse problems (compressed sensing, convex optimization). Applications to medical imaging: diffusion MRI, ultrasound imaging, inverse planning in radiotherapy, etc.Computer vision & machine learning: image and video analysis, with application to facial expression recognition, eye tracking, lip reading, industrial inspection, medical image analysis, etc.
Dimitrios KyritsisResearch
? Computer Aided Process Planning for Manufacture, Assembly, Disassembly,
? Petri- net modeling with applications in Manufacturing,
? Closed-loop Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) using Product Embedded Information Devices (PEID),
? Engineering Asset Management,
? Ontology-Based Engineering.
Membership and Services in Professional Organizations
? Chair of IFIP-WG5.7 - Advance Production Management Systems, member since 2005
? Member of ASME since 1993
? Vice President/Secretary of ASME International Swiss Chapter, 1995-2006
? Member of the Board of MANUFUTURE-CH
? Founding Member of the new IFAC TC5.1 WG IFAC WG Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology
? Founding member of the Hellenic Maintenance Society since 2007
? Founding member of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) since 2007
Services in EPFL Committees
? Member of the Informatics Committee of DGM: 1999-2001
? Member of the Doctoral Program Committee of the Doctoral Program: Manufacturing Systems and Robotics, since 2002
? Member of the CCE (Conference du Coprs des Enseignants) of EPFL since 2007
Services in other Universities
? Member of the Administration Board of INP GI, the Industrial Engineering School of INP Grenoble, elected as Qualified External Personality, 2008-2013 and 2013-2016
? Invited professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France
? Invited professor at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
? Invited professor at the Paris-Tech, ENSAM, France
? Guest professor at the University of Cincinnati, USA
Services at the European Commission
? Member of the Advisory Group LEIT-NMBP
Services in International Research activities
? Referee of the international scientific journals CAD, Computers In Industry, Production Planning and Control and others as well as ASME and IEEE conferences, 1994 - today.
? Guest Editor of the special issue on CAPP of the international scientific journal Advances in Engineering Software, 25, 1996.
? Member of the Editorial Board of the international scientific journal Advances in Engineering Software, 1996-today.
? Project Technical Advisor of two BRITE/EURAM-CRAFT projects in the field of CAD/CAM, 1995-1997.
? Evaluator of BRITE/EURAM projects (November 1997 evaluation).
? Invited expert at the IMS Workshop, EC, February 2002.
? Evaluator of FP6-NMP-IP projects (April 2003 evaluation).
? Invited expert at MANUFUTURE 2003.
? Evaluator of NEST projects (2005)
? Invited expert at IMS-NoE FP7 Roadmap Workshops on manufacturing organised by the European Commission.
? Invited expert at MANUFUTURE-CH, 2005-today.
? Invited expert at MIT RFID Academic Convocation, 2006.
? Founding member of the International Working Group on PLM, 2007- .
? Reviewer of EPSRC program proposals, UK, 2008.
? Reviewer of the National UK Research Prorgam IMRC, 2008.
? Reviewer of the National Greek Research Program Competitiveness-Enterpeneurship, 2009.
Organisation of Conferences
? Organiser and chairman of two technical sessions on CAPP, in the 1994 ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference, Minneapolis, USA, 11- 14 September 1994.
? Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium for Electromachining-ISEM-XI, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 17-21, 1995. Also co-editor of the Conference Proceedings.
? Program co-chairman and member of the Organizing Committee of the First International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems [IMS-EUROPE 1998], held in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 15-17, 1998. Also co-editor of the Conference Proceedings.
? Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 16th IMACS WORLD CONGRESS 2000 on Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 21-25, 2000.
? General Secretary of the International Symposium TMCE 2004, April 13-17, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Advisory Committee of the international conference IMS-Forum 2004, Como, Italy, May 2004.
? Organiser and chairman of two sessions (SIG5), IMS-Forum 2004, Como, Italy, May 2004.
? Organiser and chairman of a session at INCOM 2006, May 2006, Saint-Etienne, France.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2006, July 2006, Brisbane, Australia.
? Member of the Program Committee of the international conference ASI 2006, September 2006, Kassel, Germany.
? Member of the Technical Programme Committee of the international conference APMS 2006 (IFIP-WG5.7), September 2006, Wroclaw, Poland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2007, April 2007, Harrogate, UK.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference EURASIP 2007.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference PLM 2007, July 2007, Milan, Italy.
? Organiser and chairman of the session on Sustainable Manufacturing of the Internationla IMS workshop, November 2007, Zürich, Switzerland.
? General Chair of the 1st IMS MTP Workshop, April 2008, Bern, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference EURASIP 2008.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference PLM 2008, July 2008, Seoul, South Korea.
? General Chair of the 2nd IMS MTP Workshop, October 2008, Montreux, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2008, October 2008, Beijing, China.
? Program Chair & Coordinator of the IMS World Congress: Engineering a Sustainable Future, November 2009, Geneva, Switzerland.
? Congress Chair of the the international congress WCEAM 2009, 28-30 September 2009, Athens, Greece (www.wceam.com). Mohamed BouriDr. Mohamed Bouri is a group leader of Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics in LSRO and lecturer of Robotics and Industrial Robotics. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and obtained his PhD degree in 1997 in Industrial Automation at INSA LYON, France. Since 1997, he is at EPFL and is mainly active in the field of robot control, automation and robot design for medical and industrial applications. He is the head of Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics group since 2005 and has strong references with the development of robotic devices for lower limb rehabilitation : The MotionMaker and WalkTrainer commercialzed by the company Swortec. His ongoing research currently focuses on the development of exoskeletons and the associated control strategies. His main current projects are TWIICE, a lower limb exoskeleton for people with paraplegia, AUTONOMYO, a walk assistance exoskeleton for people with muscle weakness, and the HiBSO, a hip orthosis for elderly.
Alfio QuarteroniOf italian nationality, Alfio Quarteroni was born on May 30th 1952. He pursued his studies in mathematics at University of Pavia and at University of Paris VI. In 1986 he was nominated full professor at Catholic University of Brescia, later professor in mathematics at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and professor in numerical analysis at Politecnico di Milano. He is designated full professor in 1997 and enters into service with EPFL in 1998. At EPFL, he teaches numerical analysis to engineers and mathematicians and holds specialized courses about mathematical modelling and scientific computing for master and PhD students. He had been scientific director of CRS4, plenary speaker of more than two hundred international conferences; he is member of the European Academy of Sciences, the Italian Academy of Sciences, the Lombard Academy of Science and Letters. He is Editor in Chief of two book series (MS&A and Unitext) by Springer, associate editor of 25 international journals. He has been plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2006. He had been responsible of several European research networks. His team has carried out the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic simulations for the optimization of Alinghi, the Swiss sailing yacht that has won two editions of the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007.
Nikolaos GeroliminisProf. Nikolas Geroliminis is an Associate Professor at EPFL and the head of the Urban Transport Systems Laboratory (LUTS). Before joining EPFL he was an Assistant Professor on the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He has a diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a MSc and Ph.D. in civil engineering from University of California, Berkeley. He is an Associate Editor for Transportation Research part C and he also serves in the editorial board of TR, part B, Transportation Letters, Journal of ITS and of many international conferences. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board's Traffic Flow Theory Committee. His research interests focus primarily on urban transportation systems, traffic flow theory and control, public transportation and logistics, Optimization and Large Scale Networks. He is a recent recipient of the ERC Starting Grant METAFERW: Modeling and controlling traffic congestion and propagation in large-scale urban multimodal networks
Education
Diploma, 2003, Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
M.S., 2004, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D., 2007, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
Emre TelatarI. Emre Telatar received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1986. He received the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1988 and 1992 respectively. In 1992, he joined the Communications Analysis Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories (later Lucent Technologies), Murray Hill, NJ. He has been at the EPFL since 2000.
Emre Telatar was the recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2001. He was a program co-chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in 2002, and associate editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Information Theory Transactions from 2001 to 2004. He was awarded the EPFL Agepoly teaching prize in 2005.
Emre Telatar's research interests are in communication and information theories.
