Martin Vetterli

Martin Vetterli
President of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Born	(1957-10-04) 4 October 1957 (age 59)
Fields	Mathematical signal processing
Institutions	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Known for	Wavelets President of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (from 2017)

Martin Vetterli (born on 4 October 1957) is the current president of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, succeeding Patrick Aebischer. He's a professor of engineering and was formerly the president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Martin Vetterli has made numerous research contributions in the general area of digital signal processing and is best known for his work on wavelets. He has also contributed to other areas, including sampling (signal processing), computational complexity theory, signal processing for communications, digital video processing and joint source/channel coding. His work has led to over 150 journal publications and to two dozen of patents.

Martin Vetterli received the Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from the ETH Zurich in 1981, the Master of Science degree from Stanford University in 1982, and the Doctorat ès Sciences degree from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1986.

After his dissertation, he was an assistant and associate professor in electrical engineering at Columbia University in New York, and in 1993, he became an associate and then full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1995, he joined the EPFL as a full professor. He held several positions at the EPFL, including chair of communication systems and founding director of the National Competence Center in Research on Mobile Information and Communication systems (NCCR-MICS).