Author of over 350 scientific publications including journal papers, conference contributions, book chapters, and standards
Holder of 7 patents in image and video coding
Over 85 ISI-ranked journal papers; 3961 citations (Scopus); h-index of 30 (Google Scholar)
Promotor of 25 defended PhD theses and 8 ongoing PhDs
Recipient of 14 scientific awards, including the 2004 FWO-BARCO Prize for PhD thesis, Alcatel Scientific Award, FWO-IBM Scientific Prize, Baudouin Elleboudt Award, Solvay Award, and Best Paper Awards at ICDSC, ICDT, IC3D
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2019–present)
Former Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2016–2018)
Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Distributed Source Coding (2013)
Member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (MPEG) standardization committee since 2003
Active in organizing international conferences (e.g., IEEE ICIP, EUSIPCO, ICASSP) as Area Chair, Special Session Chair, or TPC member
Research Experience
Post-doctoral fellow with the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO), Belgium (2004–2010)
Professor at VUB since 2007
Contributed to MPEG-4 SVC and MPEG-4 AFX standardization activities
Coordinated the definition of the VUB-ULB BRUFACE MSc program in Electrical Engineering
Served as a project reviewer for national and international funding organizations