Prof. Jacques Blanc-Talon
Université Paris XI, France

Jacques Blanc-Talon received the Ph.D. degree from Paris XI (Orsay) University in 1991. After a postdoc during 1991-1992 at the CSIRO of Canberra, Australia, he joined the Ministry ofDefence procurement agency (DGA) in France. He worked as department Scientific Manager, Head of the "Information Engineering and Robotics" scientific domain at the DGA/MRIS and is currently with the Integrated Navigation Systems department.

Over the years, he has conducted and supervised more than 50 industrial and research contracts. He was the French Delegate of several NATO Groups and of the Horizon 2020 Security ResearchProgramme Committee.

J. Blanc-Talon has conducted the review of around 400 Ph.D. and postdoc grant applications, has participated in more than 80defencejurys and has supervised some 40 Ph.D. students. He was author or co-author of about 90 scientific papers and the editor or co-editor of 17 books and special issues of international journals. He served as Associate Editor for IOS Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering from 2000 to 2006, and IEEE TIP from 2005 to 2008; he was a reviewer for IEEE PAMI, IEE Electronics Letters, SIAM on Applied Mathematics and IAPR Pattern Recognition. He has been involved in the organization of about 100 international conferences.

J. Blanc-Talon was with the SEE (Société desElectriciens et Electroniciens) and the Australian Computing Society (ACS). He received the Outstanding Paper Award from the SCS in 1993; he was promoted "Officier del'ordre des Palmes Académiques" in 2017, and IEEE Senior Member in 2015. He served the IEEE Chapter Chair for the French Signal Processing Chapter for 14 years.

Prof. Salah BOURENNANE, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France

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