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.
Johannes HentschelAvant de commencer son doctorat à l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Johannes Hentschel a étudié pédagogie de musique, théorie de musique et français à Fribourg-en-Brisgau, Lübeck et Helsinki. Accordéoniste, chanteur et chef de chorale diplômé, il est avant tout maître de conférences en théorie de musique. Depuis 2018, il poursuit des études doctorales d'Humanités Digitales à l'EPFL. Sous la direction du professeur Martin Rohrmeier au sein du Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML) Johannes prépare sa thèse sur les changements diachroniques de styles musicaux, approfondissant ses connaissances dans la construction de corpus et l'organisation de métadonnées.
