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Michael Unser
Born (1958-04-09) 9 April 1958 (age 66)
Scientific career
InstitutionsÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

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

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

Career

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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.

Major contributions

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Bibliography

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  • with Aldroubi, Akram (1996). Wavelets in Medicine and Biology. CRC Press. ISBN 9780849394836.
  • with Pouya, Tafti (2014). An Introduction to Sparse Stochastic Processes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107058545.

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Category:Living people Category:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Category:1958 births