Christian Jutten of Université Grenoble Alpes

Biography:

Prof. Christian Jutten received Ph.D. (1981) and Doctor es Sciences (1987) degrees from Grenoble Institute of Technology, France. He was Associate Professor (1982-1989), Professor (1989-2019), and in September 2019, became Professor Emeritus at University Grenoble Alpes. His research activities are focused on statistical signal processing issues strongly related to machine learning. Early, he investigated artificial neural networks, and how they process information was the subject of his Ph.D. in 1981. Then, to understand how vertebrate brains can code/decode their motions, he developed the concept of source separation and contributed to its theoretical foundations and many applications. More recently, he investigated sparse representations, dictionary learning, and data fusion from a theoretical perspective in the framework of Big Data, which are typically multimodal, heterogeneous, and high-dimension, with applications in brain imaging, audio-visual speech processing, remote sensing, chemical sensor array, etc.

He is the author/co-author of four books, 120+ papers in international journals, and 250+ publications in international conferences. He received some awards, was elevated IEEE and EURASIP fellow, and was a recipient of a prestigious Advanced European Research Council Grant in 2013 for the project Challenges in Extraction and Separation of Sources (CHESS). He was a visiting professor at EPFL, RIKEN labs, and the University of Campinas. He also served as the head of the signal/image processing laboratory and scientific advisor for signal/image processing at the French Ministry of Research (1996–1998) and CNRS (2003–2006 and 2012-2019). He was the organizer or program chair of many international conferences, including the first Independent Component Analysis Conference in 1999 (ICA'99), IEEE MLSP 2009, and ICASSP 2020 as technical program co-chair. He was a member of the IEEE MLSP and SPTM Technical Committees, associate editor in Signal Processing and IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, guest co-editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2014), and the Proceedings of the IEEE (2015). Since 2021, he has been editor-in-chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.