Signal Processing algorithm design with a focus on:

• Multi-channel signal processing & sensor arrays
• Signal enhancement and artifact/noise reduction
• Distributed signal processing
• Biomedical sensor arrays
• Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and neural decoding
• Electroencephalography (EEG)
• Neural implants
• Neuro-sensor networks
• Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
• Wireless body area networks
• Audio and speech processing

Alexander Bertrand is Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT) of KU Leuven, Belgium. He received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Sciences (Electrical Engineering) from KU Leuven, in 2011. He was a visiting researcher at University of California, Los Angeles (in 2010) and at University of California, Berkeley (in 2013).

His research involves signal processing algorithm design with a focus on biomedical sensor arrays, such as electroencephalography (EEG), neural implants, ultrasound probes, and distributed body- and neuro-sensor networks. Applications include brain-computer interfaces, cognitive control of hearing prostheses, and wearable neuro-monitoring with distributed neuro-sensor networks. He also conducts research in generic signal processing techniques, with a focus on multi-channel and distributed signal processing, spatial filtering, beamforming, adaptive filtering, and signal enhancement.

Dr. Bertrand is recipient of an ERC starting grant (2018), and he received the 2023 'Early Career Award' of the European Signal Processing Association (EURASIP), the 2012 FWO/IBM-Belgium Award, the 2013 KU Leuven Research Council Award, and was awarded several research fellowships and grants. He is currently Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, board member of the Benelux chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a recurrent Associate Editor for the yearly International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC 2016-2023). In the past, he has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2 terms), as lead guest editor for Signal Processing (Elsevier), as a member of the Organizing Committee of IEEE ICASSP 2023, and as a Technical Program Committee Member and area chair for several international signal processing conferences and Workshops (IEEE ICASSP, EUSIPCO, IEEE EMBC, IEEE SAM, IEEE WASPAA, IEEE CAMSAP, and others).