Michael Christoph GastparMichael Gastpar is a (full) Professor at EPFL. From 2003 to 2011, he was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, earning his tenure in 2008. He received his Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 1997 and his MS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 1999. He defended his doctoral thesis at EPFL on Santa Claus day, 2002. He was also a (full) Professor at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests are in network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the co-recipient of the 2013 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He was an Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2011). He won an ERC Starting Grant in 2010, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2008, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, and the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award. He has served as an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2008-11), and as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, TX.
Nicolas MacrisNicolas Macris received the PhD degree in theoretical physics from EPFL and then pursued his scientific activity at the mathematics department of Rutgers University (NJ, USA). He then joined the Faculty of Basic Science of EPFL, working in the field of quantum statistical mechanics and mathematical aspects of the quantum Hall effect. Since 2005 he is with the Communication Theories Laboratory and Information Processing group of the School of Communication and Computer Science and currently works at the interface of statistical mechanics, information theory and error correcting codes, inference and learning theory. He held long-term visiting appointments and collaborations with the University College and the Institute of Advanced studies in Dublin, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, the Centre de Physique Theorique Luminy Marseille, Paris XI Orsay, the ETH Zürich and more recently Los Alamos National Lab. CV and publication list.
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.
Lenka ZdeborováLenka Zdeborová is a Professor of Physics and of Computer Science in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where she leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory. She received a PhD in physics from University Paris-Sud and from Charles University in Prague in 2008. She spent two years in the Los Alamos National Laboratory as the Director's Postdoctoral Fellow. Between 2010 and 2020 she was a researcher at CNRS working in the Institute of Theoretical Physics in CEA Saclay, France. In 2014, she was awarded the CNRS bronze medal, in 2016 Philippe Meyer prize in theoretical physics and an ERC Starting Grant, in 2018 the Irène Joliot-Curie prize, in 2021 the Gibbs lectureship of AMS. She is an editorial board member for Journal of Physics A, Physical Review E, Physical Review X, SIMODS, Machine Learning: Science and Technology, and Information and Inference. Lenka's expertise is in applications of concepts from statistical physics, such as advanced mean field methods, replica method and related message-passing algorithms, to problems in machine learning, signal processing, inference and optimization. She enjoys erasing the boundaries between theoretical physics, mathematics and computer science.
Murat KuntNé le 16 janvier 1945 à Ankara, a fait sa scolarité au lycée de Galatasaray, l'une des plus vieilles institutions créée en 1481 suivant un accord entre la France et l'Empire Ottomane. Il a reçu son diplôme d'ingénieur-physicien de l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) en 1969 et son diplôme de docteur ès sciences en 1974 de la même institution avec une thèse sur la compression de facsimilé.
De 1974 à 1977 il a travaillé au Massachusetts Institute of Technology à Boston comme Research Fellow au Research Laboratory of Electronics.
De retour en Suisse en 1977, il a repris un poste d'Adjoint scientifique au Laboratoire de traitement des signaux à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Il a travaillé sur la compression des images et de la vidéo, les signaux biomédicaux et la vision par ordinateur.
En 1978 il a créé la revue scientifique Signal Processing dont il est le rédacteur en chef et l'Association européenne de traitement des signaux (EURASIP).
Il a été nommé professeur en 1980
Dès 1986, il reçoit des mandats importants (8 Mio Fr.suisses chacun) de groupes industriels comme Thomson CSF et Hewlett-Packard.
En 1987 il a été nommé rapporteur à l'Assemblée National française (MM. Raymod Forni et Michel Pelcha, députés) pour la télévion à haute définition.
En 1989 il a été nommé directeur du Laboratoire de traitement des signaux.
Jusqu'à maintenant, il a :
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dirigé plus 60 thèses de doctorats à l'EPFL
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participé au jury de plus de 100 thèses dans les universités européennes
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été invité à donner de plus 250 conférences à travers le monde
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publié de plus 250 articles et 14 livres
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présidé 5 conférences internationales
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participé à plus de 30 projets européens comme partenaire
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reçu le médaille de services méritoires de l'EURASIP en 1983.
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reçu la distinction de Fellow IEEE en 1986
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reçu le prix de « Technical Achievement » de IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - en 1997
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reçu le médaille du 3ème millénaire de IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - en 2000
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reçu le doctorat honoris causa de l'Université Catholique de Louvain en 2001
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reçu le prix de « Technical Achievement » d'EURASIP en 2003
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reçu le prix « scientifique en imagerie de l'année » de IS&T et SPIE en 2003.
En 2007 il a crée une nouvelle revue scientifique Signal, Image and Video Processing dont il assume la direction, chez Springer. Il a pris sa retraite en juin 2008 et a été nommé Professeur honoraire.
Voir le site http://lts5www.epfl.ch/kunt.html pour plus de détail. 