Short biography

Education and Work Experience

Th. Blu was born in Orléans, France in 1964. He graduated (MSc) from École polytechnique (Paris, France) in 1986, the most renowned French "Grande École" with alumni like: H. Poincaré, A.L. Cauchy, C. Hermite, B. Mandelbrot etc...
Then, in 1988, he graduated (MEng) from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris, France) from which he also obtained a PhD in electrical engineering (1996).

From 1988 to 1998, he worked at France Telecom R&D as a research engineer first in Hertzian wave propagation, then in signal processing and videotelephony subjects. He is still on (long) leave from the French administration, with the rank of "Ingénieur en Chef des Télécommunications".
In 1998, Th. Blu joined the Biomedical Imaging Laboratory, recently created by Prof. Michael Unser at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), where he became responsible for the mathematical aspects of image processing in connection with biomedical/biological data.

Th. Blu left EPFL at the end of 2007 to join the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is currently a Professor.

Awards and Other Achievements

Th. Blu received two Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2003 and 2006) for papers that appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. One of his recent papers on image denoising has been listed in the Reader's Choice column of the Signal Processing Magazine (September 2007 and January 2008 issues).

Patented aspects of his research related to the interpolation of "Finite Rate of Innovation" signals have recently (Dec. 2007) been transferred to Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, CA) for applications to Ultra Wide Band communications.

Th. Blu is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the technical committee Signal Processing, Theory and Methods of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is currently one of the editors-in-chief of Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and of Elsevier's Signal Processing. He has also been associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2002—2006)

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