Michael Unser

Michael Unser is a Full Professor at EPFL’s School of Engineering and Academic Director of EPFL’s Center for Imaging in Lausanne, Switzerland. His research focuses on biomedical imaging, applied functional analysis, sampling theory, wavelets, splines, and computational bioimaging.

• Current Position: Full Professor, EPFL School of Engineering
• Academic Role: Director of EPFL Center for Imaging
• Key Research Areas: Inverse problems, sparse stochastic processes, machine learning for imaging

Dr. Unser’s research bridges mathematical theory with practical biomedical imaging applications. He has pioneered the use of splines for image processing, developed advanced regularization frameworks for inverse problems, and contributed to computational bioimaging techniques like SMLM and optoacoustic tomography. His recent work explores connections between deep learning and classical kernel methods through variational formulations. He has published over 400 journal papers and authored the seminal book on sparse stochastic processes.

His scientific contributions have been recognized with multiple awards including IEEE and EURASIP Technical Achievement Awards, five IEEE-SPS Best Paper Awards, and three consecutive ERC Advanced Grants (FUN-SP, GlobalBioIm, FunLearn). He has served on editorial boards for leading journals and founded the IEEE SPS Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee.