Dr. Pierre Vandergheynst

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Biography

Pierre Vandergheynst received his M.S. degree in Physics and Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Physics from the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Signal Processing Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland from 1998 to 2001. He worked as an Assistant Professor at EPFL from 2002 to 2007 and currently holds the position of Full Professor in Electrical Engineering with a courtesy appointment in Computer Communication Sciences. In 2015, he was appointed as EPFL’s Vice-Provost for Education. His research interests span harmonic analysis, sparse approximations, and mathematical data processing, with applications in signal and image high-dimensional data processing, computer vision, machine learning, data science, and graph-based data processing. He has served as co-Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing and as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and currently for Computer Vision and Image Understanding and SIAM Imaging Sciences. Additionally, he has been involved in various technical committees and served as co-General Chairman for the EUSIPCO 2008 conference.

Research Interests

Experience

Full Professor

2007-01-01 — Present

Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof. Vandergheynst serves as a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at EPFL.

Assistant Professor

2002-01-01 — 2007-01-01

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne, Switzerland

Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering.

Postdoctoral Researcher

1998-01-01 — 2001-01-01

Signal Processing Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne, Switzerland

Conducted research in signal processing.

Awards

#2023

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE PAPER AWARD

2023-01-01
#2022

Signal Processing Society Paper Award

2022-01-01

Requirements for École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in a related field Strong foundation in Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Probability Proficiency in programming (Python, Java, or C++)
Application Checklist
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Copy of University Degree(s)
  • Official Transcripts
  • Statement of Purpose
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  • Three Letters of Recommendation
  • Proof of English Proficiency
Specialization Notes

Standard requirements for Engineering and Basic Science Master's programs. Architecture requires an additional portfolio.