Biography

Olivier Besson received the PhD degree in signal processing in 1992 and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 1998, both from INP Toulouse. From October 1993 to September 2007 he was a professor of signal processing with the Department of Avionics and Systems of ENSICA, and from October 2007 to December 2016 with the Department of Electronics, Optronics and Signal of ISAE-SUPAERO. As from January 2017 he serves as head of the PhD program office at ISAE-SUPAERO.

Dr. Besson has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions Signal Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and Handling Editor for Signal Processing (Elsevier). He was a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel technical committee (SAM TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2002-2007, 2009-2014). Dr. Besson has held visiting positions at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, and Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy. He is the co-author of about 110 peer-reviewed journal papers, and the co-recipient of the Eurasip Best Paper Award (with P. Stoica) and the IEE Clarke-Griffiths Premium Award (with F. Galtier). His research intererests include adaptive array processing, detection, estimation, multivariate analysis and radar processing.