Josiane Zerubia

Josiane Zerubia is a French research scientist. She is the Director of Research at INRIA (DRCE), Université Côte d'Azur. Dr. Zerubia has made pioneering research contributions. She has been the Principal Investigator of numerous projects like of the Ayin (2012-2016), the Ariana (1998-2011) and of the Pastis (1995-1997). Presently, she is leading as head of the Ayana exploratory project (2020-2023). She has been professor (PR1) at SUPAERO (ISAE) in Toulouse since 1999.

Education
She received her M.Sc. degree from the Department of EE at École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs électriciens de Grenoble (ENSIEG), Grenoble, France in 1981. She defended her PhD in 1988, and obtained her 'Habilitation' in 1994, both from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France.

Work
She started her research career as a postdoc at the Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Before that, she also worked as a researcher for the LASSY-CNRS (1984-1988) and at the Hewlett Packard Labs (1982-1984). Currently, she is a permanent research scientist at INRIA since 1989.

Awards and honors

 * IAPR Fellow (2020)
 * EURASIP Fellow (2019)
 * IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2017)
 * Prize of Excellence from University of Côte d'Azur (2016, 2019, 2020)
 * IEEE Clémentina SADUWA Prize (2016)
 * IEEE Fellow (2003)
 * Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (2002)
 * IBM Academic and Research fellowship (1987)
 * Société d'Entraide de la Légion d'Honneur (1978)