Murat Kunt#
| Membership Number: | 6483 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lts5/kunt/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9398-5096 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Professor Emeritus, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- 1981 - 2008 Full Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- 1995 - 1996 Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, California
- 1974 - 1976 Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fields of Scholarship
- Image compression
- Pattern recognition
- Digital signal processing
Honours and Awards
- 1983 Gold Medal for Meritorious Services from EURASIP, European Association for Signal Processing
- 1986 Fellow of the IEEE, Institution of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
- 1997 Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal
- 2001 Doctor Honoris Causa, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
- 2002 Technical Achievement Award from EURASIP, European Association for Signal Processing
- 2003 Imaging Scientist of the Year Award of the Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T) and the International Society for Optics & Photonics (SPIE)
- 2011 IEEE Life Fellow
