Biography

Ali Mohammad-Djafari received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic of Teheran, in 1975, the diploma degree (M.Sc.) from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricit(SUPELEC), Gif sur Yvette, France, in 1977, the "Docteur-Ingénieur" (Ph.D.) degree and "Doctorat d'Etat" in Physics, from the University of Paris Sud 11 (UPS), Orsay, France, respectively in 1981 and 1987.

He was Assistant Professor at UPS for two years (1981-1983). Since 1984, he has a permanent position at "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)" and works at "Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S)" at SUPELEC. He was a visiting Associate Professor at University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA during 1997-1998. From 1998 to 2002, he has been at the head of Signal and Image Processing division at this laboratory.

Presently, he is "Directeur de recherche" and his main scientific interests are in developing new probabilistic methods based on Bayesian inference, Information Theory and Maximum Entropy approaches for Inverse Problems in general in all aspects of data processing, and more specifically in imaging and vision: image reconstruction, signal and image deconvolution, blind source separation, sources localization, data fusion, multi and hyper spectral image segmentation. The main application domains of his interests are Computed Tomography (X rays, PET, SPECT, MRI, microwave, ultrasound and eddy current imaging) either for medical imaging or for non destructive testing (NDT) in industry, multivariate and multi dimensional data, signal and image processing, data mining, clustering, classification and machine learning methods for biological or medical applications.

He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. Thesis, more than 10 Post-doc research activities and more than 50 M.Sc. Student research projects. In 2013, he was supervising 6 Ph.D. Thesis where four graduated successfully. He has more than 40 full journal papers and more than 200 papers in national and international conferences. He has organized or co-organized about 10 international workshops and conferences. He has been expert for a great number of French national and international projects. Since 1988 he has many teaching activities in M.Sc. and Ph.D. Level in SUPELEC, University of Paris sud, ENSTA and Ecole centrale de Paris.

He also participated and managed many industrial contracts with many French national industries such as EDF, RENAULT and THALES and great research institutions such as CEA, INSERM, INRIA as well as the regional (such as Digiteo), national (such as ANR) and European projects (such as ERASYSBIO).

For an overview and acces to more details of his activities and publications, please see his web page: http://djafari.free.fr for general, http://djafari.free.fr/news.htm for news and activities and http://publicationslist.org/djafarie for the list of publications.