• Engineering degrees: Supélec and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSIT), Spain, 2001
• PhD degree in Signal Processing, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, 2005
• Habilitation to supervise research (habilitation à diriger des recherches), Université de Nantes, 2020
   
• Researcher at IFREMER (French research institute for exploitation of the sea), Brest, France, 2007-2008
• Postdoctoral fellow at Côte d’Azur Observatory (Lagrange laboratory), Nice, France, 2008-2011
• Assistant Professor with École Centrale de Nantes, LS2N laboratory, Nantes, France, 2011-2024
• From sept. 2024: Full Professor with École Centrale de Nantes, LS2N laboratory, Nantes, France
   

Engineering program, Year 1 (senior undergraduate), Centrale Nantes:

• Signals and systems (intranet)
• Instrumentation and sensors (intranet)

Engineering program, Years 2 and 3, specialization in data, signal and image processing (DATASIM)

• Analysis and representation of signals (intranet)
  • Spectral analysis
  • Time-frequency representations
  • Time-scale representations, multiscale analysis, discrete wavelet transforms
  • Sparse representations
• Inverse problems (with J. Idier) (intranet)
  • Background, ill-posed problems and regularization
  • Deconvolution: classical methods
  • Deconvolution of sparse sequences
  • Image reconstruction, tomographic imaging

MSc Control and Robotics, Signal and Image Processing, Year 1

• Mathematical Tools for Signals and Systems
  • Linear algebra
  • Laplace and Fourier transforms
  • Statistics and probability distributions
• Spectral and Time-Frequency Analysis
  • Periodograms and non-parametric spectral analysis
  • High-resolution spectral analysis
  • Spectrograms and Wigner-Ville distributions

MSc Control and Robotics, Signal and Image Processing, Year 2

• Design of Signal and Image Representations
  • Continuous and Discrete Wavelet Transforms
  • Multiresolution analysis
  • Sparse representations: theory and application cases
  • Compressed Sensing
• Signal and Image Restoration Methods
  • Background, ill-posed problems and regularization
  • Deconvolution: classical methods
  • Deconvolution of sparse sequences
  • Image reconstruction, tomographic imaging

• Ewen Carcreff. Adaptive deconvolution for ultrasonic nondestructive testing. Université du Maine, 2014. Co-advisors: Laurent Simon, Jérôme Idier. <https://www.theses.fr/2014LEMA1009>
  • E. Carcreff is now a scientist and engineer with TPAC, Nantes.
• Corentin Friedrich. Reconstruction methods for 3D diffraction tomography / microwave imaging. École Centrale de Nantes / Polytechnique Montréal, 2016. Co-advisors Jérôme Idier and Yves Goussard. ⟨tel-02458615⟩
  • C. Friedrich is now a research engineer with IRT AESE - Saint Exupéry, Toulouse.
• Penghuan Liu. Statistical and numerical optimization for speckle blind structured illumination microscopy. École Centrale de Nantes, 2018. Co-advisor Jérôme Idier. ⟨tel-01973622⟩.
  • P. Liu is now an assistant professor with China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China.
• Ramzi Ben Mhenni. Méthodes de programmation en nombres mixtes pour l’optimisation parcimonieuse en traitement du signal. Ecole Centrale de Nantes, 2020. Co-advisor Jordan Ninin. <http://www.theses.fr/2020ECDN0008>
  • R. Ben Mhenni is now a research engineer with IRT SystemX, Paris.
• Marie Antoinette AlHajj. Joint inversion of non-destructive measurements for the evaluation of gradients of degree of saturation in the concrete coating of structures. École Centrale de Nantes, 2020. Co-advisors Géraldine Villain and Sérgio Palma Lopes. ⟨tel-03178337⟩
  • M. Al Hajj is now a R&D engineer with Saint-Gobain Research Provence.
• Nans Laroche. Fast and advanced ultrasonic imaging methods for non destructive testing of attenuative and diffusive materials. Ecole Centrale de Nantes, 2021. Co-advisors Jérôme Idier and Aroune Duclos. <https://www.theses.fr/2021ECDN0036>
  • N. Laroche is now an engineer and a researcher in ultrasonic imaging with TPAC, Nantes.
• Gwen Samain. Branch-and-bound algorithm for efficient resolution of sparse optimization problems. Ecole Centrale de Nantes, 2024. Co-advisor Jordan Ninin. Manuscript available soon.
  • Gwen is still with us for a short while! <https://theses.fr/2024ECDN0004>
• Nils Foix-Colonier. Exact optimization, sparsity and advances constrained for multi-solution analysis of Mars hyperspectral data. École Centrale de Nantes. Co-advisor Frédéric Schmidt. Started in October 2023.
• Huu Tran Van. Optimization and stochastic approaches based on electrical resistivity data sets for monitoring reinforced concrete structures. Université Gustave Eiffel. Co-advisors Géraldine Villain and Sérgio Palma Lopes. Financement Université Gustave Eiffel / région Pays de la
  Loire. Started in October 2023.