NEWS

June 2018
Virginie Uhlmann received EPFL's Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering 2018 for her thesis entitled "Landmark Active Contours for Bioimage Analysis : A Tale of Points and Curves". Congratulations to Virginie for her excellent work!

May 2018
The Startup Mirrakoi, an offspring of BIG, achieved the 3rd stage of Venture Kick and won the CHF 130'000 award. Bravo for being in the top of Swiss innovation !!!
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March 2018
Michael Unser is the recipient of the 2018 Technical Achievement Award "for fundamental contributions to the theory of sparse stochastic processes and sparsity-based signal processing" from the European Association for Signal and Image Processing.
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March 2018
Virginie Uhlmann has been appointed as a research group leader at EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) at Cambridge, UK. Congrats!
Interview of Virginie

December 2017
Stamatis, Aurélien and Michael are the happy recipients of the 2017 SPS Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for their paper Stamatis Lefkimmiatis, Aurélien Bourquard, and Michael Unser “Hessian-Based Norm Regularization for Image Restoration With Biomedical Applications” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 21, No. 3, March 2012.

June 2017
Ulugbek Kamilov (BIG alumni) accepted an Assistant Professorship (with tenure track) at Washington University in St. Louis. Good luck and welcome to academia !!!

EVENTS

Twenty Years of Biomedical Imaging and Splines
Invited speakers: Michael Unser, Stephane Mallat, Christophe Rabut, Akram Aldroubi, Thierry Blu, Erik Meijering, Costanza Conti, and Dimitri Van De Ville

Program: EPFL, Friday March 23, 2018