Joseph Vandewalle#
| Membership Number: | 1930 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0009485.htm |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7716-2460 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - Member of the Governing Board of Science Engineering and Technology at the K.U.Leuven
- 1999 - 2002 Vice-dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- 1996 - 1999 and 2003 - 2005 Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering
- 1986 Full Professor Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Head of the SCD division at ESAT
- 1979 Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- 1978 - 1979 Visiting Assistant Professor both at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 1976 - 1978 Research Associate
- 1976 doctorate in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematical system theory and its applications
- Linear algebra
- Linear and nonlinear system and circuit theory
- Signal processing and neural networks
- Nonlinear methods (support vector machines, multilinear algebra) for data processing and optimization techniques
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of IEEE in 1992 for contributions to nonlinear circuits and systems
- 2009 Elected as Fellow of the European Signal Processing Society EURASIP for contributions to the mathematics of signal processing and machine learning
- 1991-1992 Francqui chair on Artificial Neural Networks at the University of Liège
- 2001-2002 Francqui chair on Advanced Data Processing techniques at the Free University of Brussels
- Elected Fellow of the IEE (UK)
- Member the Belgian Academy of Sciences
- President of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and the Arts 2017 and 2018
- IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award 2022 For fundamental contributions to mathematical foundations of circuits and systems
- Honorary Doctorate at the Peter Paszman Catholic University in Budapest 2023
