Prof. Johan Debayle, MINES Saint-Etienne, France
(Senior Member of IEEE)
Johan Debayle received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the field of image processing and analysis, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. In the beginning of 2006, he joined the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) as a postdoctoral fellow in the field of biomedical image analysis. Since 2007, he is an Associate Professor in the Mathematical Imaging and Pattern Analysis Group within the SPIN Center and the LGF Laboratory, UMR CNRS 5307 at the ‘Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne’ in France. In 2012, he received the French Habilitation degree (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in the field of mathematical imaging from the University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne in France. He was a Visiting Scholar for 3 months in 2015 at the University of Kaiserslautern/ITWM Fraunhofer, Germany. He has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member in 2015. Since 2015, he is the Head of the Department PMDM of the LGF Laboratory, UMR CNRS 5307. His research interests include adaptive image processing, pattern analysis and stochastic geometry.