Biography

Pierre Comon received his graduation in 1982, and his Doctorate in 1985, both from the University of Grenoble, France. He later received the "Habilitation to lead Researches" in 1995, from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis UNS.

His teaching has been mainly in the area of signal processing. His research interests include High-Order statistics, Tensors, Blind Deconvolution and Equalization, Digital Communications, Statistical Signal and Array Processing,  Numerical analysis, and more recently applications to Biomedical and Environment. He has been for nearly 13 years in industry, first with Crouzet/Sextant between 1982 and 1985, and then with Thomson Marconi between 1988 and 1997. In 1987, he spent a post-doc at Stanford University, in the ISL laboratory. He joined Eurecom from March, 1997 to September, 1998, as a Teaching & Research Associate under contract. He has also been Research Director Associated with CNRS from January, 1994 to September, 1998, in the TSASI group of laboratory I3S. He holds a position of permanent Research Director at CNRS since October, 1998. He has been the leader of the Astre project until December 2007. He has been chair of the SIS department between Jan. 2008 and Nov. 2009, and director of the STIC doctoral school between Feb 2008 and Sept 2010.

Administration, scientific recognition, awards

• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from September, 1995 to March, 1998
• member of the National Committee of scientific research between September, 1995 and July, 2000
• Coordinator of the European Basic Research Working Group ATHOS, from 1992 to 1995.
• Between Jan 1992 and 1998, member of the Technical and Scientific Council of the Thomson Group (multinational Company employing 96,000 persons over 50 countries).
• Until March 2005, he headed the PhD program SiCom, which he created in 2000.
• Between July 2001 and January 2004, he acted as launching Associate Editor with the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, in the area of Blind Techniques.
• He has been IEEE distinguished lecturer over the period 2002-2003.
• He received the Monpetit prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2005 (rewarding works with industrial applications)
• Individual Technical Achievement Award TAA from Eurasip in 2006.
• Since May 2006, member of the Editorial Board of the journal Signal Processing
• Fellow Member of the IEEE
• Emeritus member of the SEE

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