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Joos Vandewalle

ESAT
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, bus 2446, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
office: B00.13
phone: 2 10 52
fax: 2 19 70

email: .@esat.kuleuven.be

Research:

Algebraic and mathematical methods for Systems, circuits, signal processing, learning systems and cryptography

In charge of:

He is a member of the board of Sciences & Technology Group at the K.U.Leuven, regrouping the 16 departments of Sciences and Technology and 3 Faculties (Sciences, Engineering and Bio-Engineering)
teaches courses in linear algebra, linear and nonlinear system and circuit theory, signal processing and neural networks.
member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and its Applications, Neurocomputing, Neural Networks and the Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers.
elected fellow of IEEE in 1992 for contributions to nonlinear circuits and systems
since 2006 as Vice-President Technical Activities of the IEEE CAS Society
In 1991-1992 he held the Francqui chair on Artificial Neural Networks at the University of Liège and in 2001-2002 he held this chair on Advanced Data Processing techniques at the Free University of Brussels.
Fellow of the IEE (UK).
He received several best paper awards and research awards.
He is a member of the Academia Europaea and of the Belgian Academy of Sciences and its CAWET committee on engineering. He is a member of the Technology Committee of the Vlaamse Raad voor WetenschapsBeleid (VRWB).
From 1996 till 2006 he was a member of the Informatics and Knowledge Technology panel of the Flemish Fund of Scientific Research FWO. He was a member of the research and also of a teaching evaluation of the 3 departments of Electrical Engineering in the Netherlands, and in November 2005 he was chairing the QANU research evaluation of the 3 departments of Electrical Engineering in the Netherlands (report due in the Summer of 2006). He was a member of the evaluation of the Informatics and Communication Systems panel of the EPFL Lausanne in 2000. He was a member of the Signal Processing panel of the Finnish Academy of Sciences evaluation in 2003. He was a member of the Informatics panel of the Finnish Academy of Sciences evaluation in 2006. He was a member of the selection panel of the German DFG for Centers of Excellence in June 2006. He is a member of the ERC panel since 2008.

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Biography:

Academic activities:

Electrical engineering degree and a doctorate in applied sciences, both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Belgium in 1971 and 1976 respectively.
From 1976 to 1978 Research Associate and from July 1978 to July 1979, Visiting Assistant Professor both at the University of California, Berkeley .
Since July 1979 he held several research and teaching positions at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Since 1986 Full Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Since 1984 Academic Consultant at IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center), Leuven.
From August 1996 till August 1999 Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
From August 99 till August 2002 Vice-dean of Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
From August 2003 till February 2005 he was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Since February 2005 he is a member of the Governing Board of the Exact Sciences (Groepsbestuur Exacte Wetenschappen) at the Katolieke Universiteit Leuven.
Teaching courses in linear algebra, linear and nonlinear system and circuit theory, signal processing and neural networks.

Cursus Wiskundeleraars:

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Papers, books and journals:

Authored or coauthored more than 200 scientific papers.
Co-author with S. Van Huffel of the book "The Total Least Squares Problem" (SIAM, 1991)
Co-editor with T. Roska of the book "Cellular Neural Networks" (J. Wiley, 1993)
Co-author with J. Suykens and B. De Moor of the book "Artificial neural networks for modeling and control of nonlinear systems" (Kluwer, 1995)
Co-editor with J. Suykens of the book "Nonlinear Modeling" (Kluwer, 1999)
Co-author with J. Suykens, T. Van Gestel, J. De Brabanter, B. De Moor, of the book "Least squares support vector machines" World Scientific, Singapore 2002.
Member of the editorial board of 4 scientific journals : the International Journal of Circuit Theory and its Applications, the Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers, Neurocomputing, and Neural Networks.
From 1989 till 1991, associate editor at the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems in the area of nonlinear and neural networks.

Conferences and councils :

Program Chair IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Geneva, May 2000.
General Chairman IACR (Intl. Association for Cryptologic Research) Eurocrypt Conference, Brugge, May 2000.
Corresponding member of the Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België (October 1996 - 2003) and since 2003 regular member.
Member of the Royal Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences (BACAS).
Member of 2 committees of the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen (Belgium).
From 1 January 2002 till 31 December 2003 deputy editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
Program Chairman of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE + Int. Neural Network Society) in Budapest July 2004 with 600 papers.

Promotor of the doctoral research program for (alumni)

… J. Staar : "Concepts for reliable modelling of linear systems with applications to on-line identification of multivariable state space descriptions", June 22, 1982.
… J. Rabaey : "A unified computer aided design technique for switched capacitor networks in the time and frequency domain", April 28, 1983 (co-promotor with Prof. H. De Man).
… L. Claesen : "Computer aided design of integrated systems for digital and analog signal processing", March 28, 1984 (co-promotor with Prof. H. De Man).
… R. Jain : "Computer-aided discrete coefficient optimization of custom integrated digital filters", 1985, (promotor with Prof. H. De Man).
… H. Franken : "Analyse van twee technieken ter identificatie van respiratoire impedantie", July 27, 1985, promotor with Prof. K. Van de Woestijne (Laboratorium voor Longfunctie, Faculteit Geneeskunde K.U.L.).
… M. Verhaegen, "A new class of algorithms in linear system theory with application to real-time aircraft model identification", November 5, 1985.
… F. Catthoor, "Architectural design strategies for compelx DSP systems in an automated synthesis environment", May 21, 1987 (co-promotor with Prof. H. De Man).
… S. Van Huffel, "Analysis of the Total Least Squares Problem and its use in parameter estimation", June 1987.
… S.H. Tan, "A unified approach to analysis and control of non-causal multivariable dynamical systems", October 21, 1987.
… B. De Moor, "Mathematical concepts and techniques for modelling of static and dynamic systems", June 3, 1988.
… J. Chen, "Adaptive filtering and its applications in echo cancellation and biomedical signal processing", April 25, 1989.
… G. Goossens, "Optimization techniques for automated synthesis of application specific signal processing architectures", (co-promotor with Prof. H. De Man).
… D. Callaerts, "Signal separation based on singular value decomposition and their applicaiton to the real-time extraction of the fetal electrocardiogram from cutaneous recordings", December 1989
… M. Moonen,"Jacobi-type updating algorithms for signal processing, systems identification and control", November 22, 1990
… J. Vanderschoot,"Analysis of biomedical vector signals by numerically reliable techniques", April 29, 1991.
… G. Tijskens, "Accurate on-line description of biological signals by spline functions as a basis for automated analysis", October 1991
… I. Verbauwhede, "VLSI Design Methodologies for Application-Specific Cryptographic and Algebraic Systems", 9 July, 1991
… L. Vandenberghe, "Variable Dimension Algorithms in the Analysis of Nonlinear Circuits and Neural Networks", April 2, 1992
… J. Van Impe, "Modeling and optimal adaptive control of biotechnological processes", January 1993
… B. Preneel, "Analysis and design of cryptographic hash functions", January 1993
… J. David, "Algorithms for analysis and design of robust controllers", March 1994
… V. Beiu, "Neural networks using threshold gates : a complexity analysis of their area and time efficient VLSI implementations", May 1994
… J. Hao, "Design of neural networks with applications to associative memories, identification and control", September 1994
… J. Daemen, "Cipher and hash function design. Strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis", March 1995
… F. Vanpoucke, "Algorithms and architectures for adaptive array signal processing", February 1995
… D. Thierens, "Analysis and design of genetic algorithms", May 1995
… J. Suykens, "Artificial neural networks for modelling and control of nonlinear systems", May 1995
… J. Dehaene, "Continuous-time matrix algorithms systolic algorithms and adaptive neural networks", October 1995
… G. Schelfhout, "Model reduction for control design", January 1996
… H. Chen, "Subspace-based parameter estimation of exponentially damped sinusoids with application to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy data", May 1996
… Lieven De Lathauwer : "Signal Processing with multilinear algebra", September 1997
… Cristian Radu, ``Analysis and design of off-line electronic payment systems,'' October 1997.
… Vincent Rijmen, ``Cryptanalysis and design of iterated block ciphers,'' October 1997.
… Moreau Y., Dynamical Neural Networks and Composition Networks for System Modeling, May 1998, 247 p.
… M. Vandenwauver, ``Practical network security aspects,'' May 1998.
… Liang Jie, Recording, processing and analysis of gastric myoelectrical, Sept. 2000.
… Espinosa J., Fuzzy modeling and control, April 2001, 261 p.
… J. Borst, Block Ciphers: Design, Analysis and Side-Channel Analysis, September 2001.

Publications

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Awards:

2022 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award for Joos Vandewalle
2017 EURASIP the Group Technical Achievement Society Award
EURASIP Group Technical Achievement Award

The group technical achievement award is given on demand, annually, to leaders of research groups that have made relevant contributions in the field of signal, speech, or image processing. The award-candidate and his/her research group should:

• be actively involved with the international signal processing community, having a recognised leadership in their field of action and a significant impact on the European research activities;
• have a significant list of achievements, namely in terms of relevant publications, original contributions, or inventive value (patents),
• publish regularly in EURASIP journals;
• participate regularly in conferences sponsored by EURASIP, and in particular in EUSIPCO conferences. These awards, in the form of a plaque, crafted according to the current standard layout, presented to the leader of the selected research group, are given by the EURASIP BoD at the annual EUSIPCO conference.

Short acceptance speech by Joos Vandewalle on Tuesday August 29 at the EUSIPCO awards ceremony in Kos, Greece.

I am grateful to the EURASIP Board of Directors for granting us the 2017 Group Technical Achievement Award with the citation “For Sustained Pioneering Contributions to Theory and Applications in Signal Processing and Machine Learning”.
I would like to briefly highlight two essential ingredients for these achievements : the people and the research topics.
Over a period of about 35 years I have supervised 43 PhD students. Many of them are now professors and have now their own PhD students and have built successful teams. In total there are at least 262 PhD descendents that are listed in the mathematics genealogy http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=92883. And that list is only partial.
Second the research topics typically cover a creative trajectory between theory and application. Some are starting from the application towards the mathematics and some do it the other way round. Mathematics has proven to be an immensely rich source of inspiration for new algorithms and designs. Initially this was mainly the use of singular value decomposition but has since branched out to many more mathematical concepts like optimization, cryptography, support vector machines and tensors, that is the topic of the plenary talk of Sabine Van Huffel later in the conference. Real world applications have also been an important element to attract and motivate PhDs. The many challenges for our society like health care, care or elderly, communication, cybersecurity provide interesting opportunities. These arguments have often been the key elements to select and guide the PhD works. So the award is really recognizing these achievements. Sometimes young people think that all important research is already done. I can assure you that in deeper layers of mathematics and the evolving societal challenges there are enough interesting opportunities to develop a research career and later stand here for such an award.
2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award
The Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award honors the individual whose exceptional technical contributions to a field within the scope of the CAS Society have been consistently evident over a period of years. Contributions are documented by publications (including but not limited to patents) and based on originality and continuity of effort.
December 2011 - Outstanding student branch counselor award for Joos Vandewalle
Professor Joos Vandewalle has been awarded the "2011 Outstanding IEEE Student Branch Counselor Award" and is the counselor of the KU Leuven branch
For more information on the Benelux Section and its activities, please have a look at http://www.ieee.be.
2001-2002 : Francqui Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on "Advanced data processing developments building upon linear algebraic and neural network concepts".
2000 : IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999) (joint with Johan Suykens, Bart DeMoor) http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/bestpaper.html
Awarded at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, June 2000, Istanbul, Turkey http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu for the paper: NLq theory: checking and imposing stability of recurrent neural networks for nonlinear modelling, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (special issue on neural networks for signal processing), Vol.45, No.11, pp. 2682-2691, Nov. 1997. http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/bestpaper.html
1999 : in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) golden Jubilee Medal (IEEE Third Millennium Medal in recognition and appreciation of valued services and outstanding contributions).
1999 member of Academiae Europaea.
1998 elected IEE Fellow
1991-1992 : Francqui Chair at the University of LiÃ¨ge on "Artificial Neural Networks".
1992 elected fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for contributions to nonlinear circuits and systems
1990 : Guillemin Cauer Best paper award IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1989.(joint with L. Vandenberghe and B. De Moor).
1989 : Best paper award at the Design Automation Conference 1989, Las Vegas (joint with G. Goossens and H. De Man).
1986 : Best paper award on computer aided design at the IEEE ICCD Conference, Port Chester New York (joint with L. Claesen, F. Catthoor, H. De Man, S. Note and K. Mertens).
1985 : SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication S.C.) award (joint with R. Govaerts and Y. Desmedt).
1983 : Award of 100 Year Bell Telephone (BTMC) (joint with Y. Desmedt and R. Govaerts).
1977-78 : Rotary Foundation grant.
1976-77 : Fullbright/Hays travel grant. NATO Fellowship.

Membership:

Vice President Technnical Activities of the Circuits and Systems Society of IEEE
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/icss/excom.php
Member of the research and of teaching evaluation of the 3 departments of Electrical Engineering in the Netherlands
In Novermber 2005 he was also chairing the QANU research evaluation of the 3 departments of Electrical Engineering in the Netherlands (report due in the Summer of 2006).
Member of the evaluation of the Informatics and Communication Systems panel of the EPFL, Lausanne, in 2000.
Member of the Signal Processing panel of the Finnish Academy of Sciences evaluation in 2003 and in 2006.
Member of the selection panel of the German DFG for Centers of Excellence in June 2006.

Honours:

Honorary Doctorate from the Peter Paszman Catholic University of Budapest