Biographical Sketch
Dr. Azeddine BEGHDADI is Professor of Visual Computing and Signal Processing at University Sorbonne Paris Nord since 2000. He is the founding member of the Laboratory of Information Processing and Transmission (L2TI laboratory) and was its director from 2010 to 2016. Dr. Beghdadi is the founder and Steering Committee Chair of the European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP). Dr Beghdadi started his education at ENS Polytechnique and the Institute of Physics at University Es Senia (Oran,Algeria). He joined the graduate engineering school ENSTelecom in Paris in 1980. He received Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (Master) in Optics and Signal Processing from University Paris-Saclay in June 1983 and the PhD in Optics and Signal Processing from Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie in June 1986. Dr. Beghdadi worked at different places, including « Laboratoire d’Optique des Solides » (CNRS, Sorbonne University) and LPMTM CNRS Laboratory (University Sorbonne Paris Nord). He was promoted to the « Exceptional Class » Professor in 2016. He has co-authored more than 350 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers including 6 best paper awards and has given over 30 invited and plenary talks. He supervised more than 30 PhD, 8 Post-Doc and around 35 master students His research interests include image/video quality enhancement and assessment, bio-inspired models for image/video analysis and processing, and physics-based image/video analysis and processing. Dr Beghdadi is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, “Signal processing : Image Communication”, Journal, Elsevier, European journal on image and video processing, Springer Verlag, and Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal, Hindawi. He also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Imaging, SPIE Digital Library (2018-2020). He served as conference chair, technical chair and area chair of more than 15 international conferences. He has been involved in more than 10 major research projects as principal or co-principal investigator leader. He also served as session organizer and a member of the organizing and technical committees in several IEEE conferences. Dr Beghdadi is an elected member of IEEE-MMSP TC and an elected member of EURASIP VIP-TAC. He is a senior member of IEEE, EURASIP member and IEEE-MMTC member.
Personal Webpage : https://www-l2ti.univ-paris13.fr/~beghdadi/.