ESAT-SCD is a “Signals & Systems” research division of the Electrical Engineering Department of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, with 10 permanent staff and approximately 120 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers.It performs fundamental and applied research in control, model based signal processing, systems identification, data processing, non-linear systems and cryptography.
The activities described in this project will be carried out in the ESAT-SCD/DSP subgroup, headed by Marc Moonen (16 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers), where research is aimed at generic DSP algorithms design as well as applications oriented DSP algorithms design for digital communications and audio.
Marc Moonen received the electrical engineering degree and the PhD degree in applied sciences from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990 respectively. Since 2004 he is a Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He has (co-)authored 1 book, 4 edited volumes, over 100 international journal papers and 200 international conference papers, and supervised 20 completed PhD projects.
Marc Moonen is a Fellow of the IEEE (2007). He received the 1994 K.U. Leuven Research Council Award, the 1997 Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award (with Piet Vandaele), the 2004 Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award (with Raphael Cendrillon), and was a 1997 `Laureate of the Belgium Royal Academy of Science'. He received a journal best paper award from the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (with Geert Leus) and from Elsevier Signal Processing (with Simon Doclo).
He was chairman of the IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter (1998-2002), and is currently President of EURASIP (European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing, www.eurasip.org) and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications.
He has served as Editor-in-Chief for the “EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing” (2003-2005), and has been a member of the editorial board of “IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II” (2002-2003) and “IEEE Signal Processing Magazine” (2003-2005). He is currently, and a member of the editorial board of `Integration, the VLSI Journal”, “EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing”, “EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking”, and “Signal Processing”.