Michael Unser
{{Short description|Swiss engineer (born 1958)}}
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Michael Unser (born {{Birth date|1958|4|9}}) is a Swiss engineer and a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).{{Cite web|last=ORCID|title=Michael Unser (0000-0003-1248-2513)|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1248-2513|access-date=2020-10-15|website=orcid.org|language=en}} His research focuses on the field of biomedical image processing.{{Cite web|title=Michaël Unser|url=https://people.epfl.ch/michael.unser?lang=en|access-date=2020-10-15|website=people.epfl.ch}}
Career
Unser obtained a M.S. in 1981 and a PhD in 1984 in electrical engineering from EPFL. In 1985, he moved to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program. There, he became head of the Image Processing Group in 1990. In 1997, he was named associate professor at EPFL, where he was promoted full professor in 2000.{{Cite web|title=Michael Unser's CV 2008|url=http://bigwww.epfl.ch/unser/Unser_2008.pdf|access-date=15 October 2020}} In 2021, he was named academic director of the EPFL Center for Imaging.{{cite web|url=https://actus.epfl.ch/news/epfl-launches-a-center-of-excellence-in-imaging/|title=EPFL launches a center of excellence in imaging|date=22 March 2021}}
Research
Unser heads the biomedical image processing group at the School of Engineering of EPFL. His research focuses on the development of mathematical tools and algorithms for the analysis of medical and biomedical images, notably for image reconstruction and multi-modal imaging.{{Cite web|title=BIG > Research|url=http://bigwww.epfl.ch/research/index.html|access-date=2020-10-20|website=bigwww.epfl.ch}}{{Cite journal|last1=Jin|first1=Kyong Hwan|last2=McCann|first2=Michael T.|last3=Froustey|first3=Emmanuel|last4=Unser|first4=Michael|date=September 2017|title=Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Inverse Problems in Imaging|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7949028|journal=IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|volume=26|issue=9|pages=4509–4522|doi=10.1109/TIP.2017.2713099|pmid=28641250|arxiv=1611.03679|bibcode=2017ITIP...26.4509J|s2cid=18141673|issn=1941-0042}}{{Cite journal|last1=Stalder|first1=Aurélien F.|last2=Melchior|first2=Tobias|last3=Müller|first3=Michael|last4=Sage|first4=Daniel|last5=Blu|first5=Thierry|last6=Unser|first6=Michael|date=2010-07-20|title=Low-bond axisymmetric drop shape analysis for surface tension and contact angle measurements of sessile drops|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927775710002761|journal=Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects|language=en|volume=364|issue=1|pages=72–81|doi=10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.04.040|issn=0927-7757}}
Unser's group was among the first to promote the use of wavelets as mathematical tools in biology and medicine.{{Cite journal|last=Unser|first=M.|date=November 1995|title=Texture classification and segmentation using wavelet frames|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/469936|journal=IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|volume=4|issue=11|pages=1549–1560|doi=10.1109/83.469936|pmid=18291987|bibcode=1995ITIP....4.1549U|issn=1941-0042}} Unser has notably pioneered their use in the analysis of fMRI and PET imaging data.{{Cite journal|last1=Unser|first1=M.|last2=Aldroubi|first2=A.|date=April 1996|title=A review of wavelets in biomedical applications|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/488704|journal=Proceedings of the IEEE|volume=84|issue=4|pages=626–638|doi=10.1109/5.488704|issn=1558-2256}}
Distinctions
As of 2020, Unser's publications had been cited over 50,000 times and his H-index was 102, owing him to figure on the list of highly cited researchers in engineering.{{Cite web|title=Michael Unser|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nKVDcQoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao|access-date=2020-10-20|website=scholar.google.com}}{{Cite web|title=Michael Unser - IEEE Explore|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37085397191|access-date=2020-10-20|website=IEEE}}
Unser received three Advanced Grants (2010 & 2015 & 2021) from the European Research Council for research projects on signal processing, bioimaging, and functional learning.{{Cite web|title=ERC FUNDED PROJECTS|url=https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results|access-date=2020-10-20|website=ERC: European Research Council|language=en}}
He is a recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1995 Best Paper Award (together with A. Aldroubi and M. Eden), of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2000 Magazine Award, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2003 Best Paper Award (with T. Blu).{{Cite web|title=Michael Unser|url=http://bigwww.epfl.ch/unser/|access-date=2020-10-20|website=bigwww.epfl.ch}}
In 2018, Unser was awarded the Technical Achievement Award by the European Association for Signal Processing.{{Cite web|title=EURASIP|url=https://www.eurasip.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Itemid=96|access-date=2020-10-20|website=www.eurasip.org}}
In 2020, he was awarded the 2020 IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society Academic Career Achievement Award.{{Cite web|date=2020-06-24|title=CIBM SP EPFL Section Head receives prestigious award for medical imaging - CIBM {{!}} Center for Biomedical Imaging|url=https://cibm.ch/cibm-sp-epfl-section-head-receives-prestigious-award-for-medical-imaging/|access-date=2020-10-20|website=CIBM {{!}} Center for Biomedical Imaging|language=en-US}}
Bibliography
Together with the American mathematician Akram Aldroubi, Michael Unser co-authored a book on the use of wavelets in medicine and biology.{{Cite web|title=Wavelets in Medicine and Biology|url=https://www.routledge.com/Wavelets-in-Medicine-and-Biology/Aldroubi-Unser/p/book/9780367448592|access-date=2020-10-20|website=Routledge & CRC Press|language=en}}
- Aldroubi, A., Unser, M. (1996) Wavelets in Medicine and Biology. CRC Press. {{ISBN|0-8493-9483-X}}
- Unser, M., Tafti, P.D. (2014) An Introduction to Sparse Stochastic Processes. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9781107415805}}
- McCann, M.T., Unser, M. (2019) Biomedical Image Reconstruction: From the Foundations to Deep Neural Networks. Now Publishers. {{ISBN|9781680836509}}
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