Biography
Martin Vetterli received the Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from
ETH Zurich (ETHZ),
Switzerland, in 1981, the MS degree from
Stanford University in 1982, and the Doctorat ès Sciences degree from
EPF Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 1986.
He was a Research Assistant at Stanford and EPFL, and has worked for Siemens and AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1986 he joined Columbia University in New York, where he was last an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and co-director of the Image and Advanced Television Laboratory. In 1993 he joined the
University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Professor in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences until 1997, and now holds an Adjunct Professor position.
Since 1995 he is a Professor of Communication Systems at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, where he chaired the Communications Systems Division (1996/97), and heads the Audiovisual Communications Laboratory. From 2001 to 2004 he directed the
National Competence Center in Research on mobile information and communication systems. He is also a Vice-President for Institutional Affairs at EPFL since October 2004. He has held visiting positions at ETHZ (1990) and Stanford (1998).
He is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of ACM, a member of SIAM. He is
on the editorial boards of Applied and Computational Harmonic
Analysis, The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Application and IEEE
Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing.
He received the Best Paper Award of
EURASIP in 1984 for his paper on multidimensional subband coding, the Research Prize of the Brown Bovery Corporation (Switzerland) in 1986 for his doctoral thesis, the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Senior Awards in 1991, in 1996 and in 2007 (for papers with D. LeGall, K. Ramchandran, and Marziliano and Blu, respectively). He won the Swiss National Latsis Prize in 1996, the SPIE Presidential award in 1999, and the IEEE Signal Processing Technical Achievement Award in 2001. He was a member of the
Swiss Council on Science and Technology until Dec. 2003.
He was a plenary speaker at various conferences (e.g. IEEE ICIP, ICASSP, ISIT) and is the co-author of books with
J. Kovacevic,
Wavelets and Subband Coding, with P. Prandoni,
Signal Processing for Communications, and with J. Kovacevic and V. K. Goyal,
The World of Fourier and Wavelets.
He has published about 120 journal papers on a variety of topics in signal/image processing and communications, holds a dozen patents and is an ISI highly cited researcher in engineering.
His research interests include sampling, wavelets, multirate signal
processing, computational complexity, signal processing for
communications, digital image/video processing, joint source/channel
coding and signal processing for sensor networks.
