John MaddocksCitoyen de Grande Bretagne, John Maddocks est né en 1958. Il a obtenu un diplôme en mathématiques en 1978, à l'Université de Glasgow (Ecosse), ainsi qu'un doctorat à l'Université d'Oxford (Angleterre) en 1981. Sa thèse concernait la bifurcation et l'échange de stabilité dans les principes variationnels contraints qui apparaissent en théorie de l'élasticité. Il a ensuite effectué des travaux de recherche à l'Université de Stanford (USA), puis à Oxford, avant de rejoindre l'Université du Maryland (USA) en 1984. Il y est nommé professeur associé en 1989, puis professeur ordinaire en 1993. Il a notamment été chercheur invité à l'Université du Minnesota, du Texas, de Heriot-Watt, d'Oxford, à l'Institut Courant à New York et à l'École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich.
Ses travaux de recherche concernent principalement l'analyse et les techniques computationnelles en mécanique non linéaires.Il a effectué des travaux interdisciplinaires faisant intervenir différents domaines, tels la robotique, la dynamique des satellites et l'étude de macromolécules comme l'ADN. Il est spécialiste de la théorie de la stabilité des systèmes hamiltoniens et des phénomènes de bifurcation dans les problèmes de calcul des variations paramétrés. Plus récemment, il a mis au point des outils de calcul scientifique interactifs qui utilisent des techniques de visualisation avancées.
En juin 1997, il est nommé professeur ordinaire en analyse appliquée, au Département de mathématiques. Il enseigne en particulier l'analyse et des cours plus spécialisés aux ingénieurs et ingénieurs mathématiciens. Il continuera à effectuer des travaux de recherche en mécanique du continu, en techniques de visualisation, en analyse et en calcul scientifique.
Karl AbererCo-Founder of LinkAlong Sarl, 2017.Vice-president EPFL for Information Systems, 2012 –2016.Director of the Swiss National Centre for Mobile Information and Communication Systems NCCR MICS (mics.ch), 2005 -2012.Member of the Swiss Research and Technology Council SWTR, consulting the Swiss Federal government, 2004 - 2011.
Andreas Peter BurgAndreas Burg was born in Munich, Germany, in 1975. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2000 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. He then joined the Integrated Systems Laboratory of ETH Zurich, from where he graduated with the Dr. sc. techn. degree in 2006.
In 1998, he worked at Siemens Semiconductors, San Jose, CA. During his doctoral studies, he was an intern with Bell Labs Wireless Research for a total of one year. From 2006 to 2007, he held positions as postdoctoral researcher at the Integrated Systems Laboratory and at the Communication Theory Group of the ETH Zurich. In 2007 he co-founded Celestrius, an ETH-spinoff in the field of MIMO wireless communication, where he was responsible for the ASIC development as Director for VLSI. In January 2009, he joined ETH Zurich as SNF Assistant Professor and as head of the Signal Processing Circuits and Systems group at the Integrated Systems Laboratory.
In January 2011, he became a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he is leading the Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory in the School of Engineering. In June 2018 he was promoted to the role of a Tenured Associate Professor.
In 2000, Mr. Burg received the Willi Studer Award and the ETH Medal for his diploma and his diploma thesis, respectively. Mr. Burg was also awarded an ETH Medal for his Ph.D. dissertation in 2006. In 2008, he received a 4-years grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for an SNF Assistant Professorship. In his professional career, Mr. Burg was involved in the development of more than 25 ASICs. He is a member of the IEEE and of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).
Research interests and expertise
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Circuits and systems for telecommunications (wireless and wired)
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Prototyping and silicon implementation of new communication technologies
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Development of communication algorithms and optimization for hardware implementation
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Low-power VLSI signal processing for communications and other applications
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Digital integrated circuits
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Circuits for image and video processing
Thomas LieblingOriginaire de Greifensee (ZH), Thomas M. Liebling est né à La Paz (Bolivie) en 1942. Il obtient un diplôme d'ingénieur électricien, le titre de docteur et l'habilitation en mathématiques à l'EPFZ. Il est lauréat du Prix et de la Médaille de l'ETH, ainsi que du Prix Biennial de la Science de la GOR.
Après des séjours aux USA comme chercheur et professeur, notamment aux universités de Stanford et au Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute il entre à l'EPFL en 1980, en tant que professeur au Département de mathématiques. Il dirige le ROSO, un groupe formé d'une douzaine de collaborateurs se vouant à la modélisation, simulation et optimisation de systèmes physiques, biologiques, techniques et économiques, en particulier aux applications en logistique et productique.
Membre de 107 jurys de thèse de doctorat et habilitations, il en a été directeur de 39. En outre il a dirigé quelque 150 thèses de master et 350 projets de semestre.
Durant dix ans il est un des responsables du cours postgrade en informatique technique. Il dirige le cours doctoral en optimisation discrete organisé conjointement avec les Universités de Grenoble, Louvain-la-Neuve et Cologne. Il a présidé la Commission informatique de l'EPFL et le Conseil PHP, ainsi que de la Conférence des chefs de département. Chargé de créer le Prix EPFL des doctorats, il en préside le jury. Durant cinq ans il préside la commission de recherche de l'EPFL.
Auteur et coauteur de plusieurs ouvrages et de quelque 200 d'articles scientifiques, il a fonctionné comme Editeur départemental de Management Science, et Editeur associé notamment de Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, Mathematical Programming, Discrete Optimzatio. Il est membre du conseil scientifique du Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum. Il est membre individuel dela SATW, l'académie suisse des sciences techniques. Il a préside le Tucker Prize Committee de la Société Internationale de Programmation Mathématique, ainsi que le Symposium Advisory Committee. De 2003 à 2008 il est membre du Comité du Conseil de Fondation du Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique.
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
Pierre-André FarinePierre-André Farine received the Doctoral and Engineering Degrees in Microtechnology from University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, respectively in 1984 and 1978, and the Engineering in Microtechnology from ETS Le Locle in 1974.
He was working 17 years for the Swiss watch industries (Swatch Group), including developments for high-tech products, such as pager watches, watches including integrated sensors such as pressure, compass, altimeter and temperature sensors for Tissot. He was also involved in prototypes developments for watches including GPS and cellular GSM phones.
Since 8 years, he is Professor in Electronics and Signal Processing at the Institute of Microtechnology IMT, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Full professor at EPFL since January 1st, 2009, he works in the field of low-power integrated products for portable devices, including microelectronics for wireless telecommunications, UWB and GNSS systems. He is Head of the Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory ESPLAB of the EPFL IMT-NE. His laboratory works also for video and audio compression algorithms and their implementation in low power integrated circuits.
