User:JeanGoulifet/sandbox/Michael Unser

Michael Unser is a Swiss engineer known for his contributions to the fields of signal processing, biomedical imaging, wavelet theory and spline theory. He is professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

He is the recipient of the 2018 Eurasip Technical Achievement Award for "his fundamental contributions to the theory of sparse stochastic processes and sparsity-based signal processing".

He is an IEEE Fellow, an Eurasip Fellow and an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. He has published over 300 journal papers.

Education
Michael Unser received the Master of Science (1981) and PhD (1984) degrees in Electrical Engineering from EPFL.

Career
From 1985 to 1997, Michael Unser worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (USA), heading the Image Processing Group. Since 1997, he is the leader of the Biomedical Imaging Group (BIG) at EPFL, where he holds a full professor position.