Biographical Notes for Michael Unser

Michael Unser received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1981 and 1984, respectively, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. From 1985 to 1997, he was with the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda USA, where he was heading the Image Processing Group. He is now Professor and Head of the Biomedical Imaging Group at the EPFL. His main research area is biomedical image processing. He has a strong interest in sampling theories, multiresolution algorithms, wavelets, and the use of splines for image processing. He is the author of over 80 published journal papers in these areas. He received the Dommer prize for excellence from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1981, the research prize of the Brown-Boveri Corporation (Switzerland) for his thesis in 1984, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1995 Best Paper Award. In January 1999, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE with the citation: "for contributions to the theory and practice of splines in signal processing".