Prof. Yoann Altmann

I completed my Ph.D. within the Signal and Communication Group of the IRIT Laboratory and received the Ph.D. degree from the INP Toulouse in 2013. In 2014, I was awarded a postdoctoral Fellowship by the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA, French Ministry of Defence) and joined Heriot-Watt University to develop computational methods for hyperspectral imaging and Lidar-based ranging applications. From 2015 until 2016, I was a postdoctoral researcher within the Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems at Heriot-Watt University. In 2017, I was awarded a 5-year Research Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering to develop new computational methods for low-illumination imaging and sensing. Since 2024, I have been a Professor in EECE and Computational imaging with the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University. 

Refereeing activities 

  • Journals: Nature Communications, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote sensing, IEEE J. Sel. Topics Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE J. Sel. Topics Signal Processing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, Signal Processing Eurasip, Applied Spectroscopy.
  • Conferences: IEEE SSP Workshops, EUSIPCO, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE SSPD

Recent talks

  • June 2022: “Expectation-propagation for scalable inference in imaging inverse problems”, Université Côte d’Azur, France.
  • December 2021: “Challenges in imaging and sensing in photon-starved regimes” & “Expectation-propagation for imaging inverse problems”, University of Bordeaux, France. 
  • June 2021: “Expectation-propagation for imaging inverse problems”, University of Lille, France.
  • Sept. 2020: “Expectation-Propagation methods for source identification and separation” University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Awards, distinctions and grants 

  • 2022: EURASIP Early Career Award
  • 2017-2022: Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship
  • 2016: Best Paper Award, EUSIPCO (European Signal Processing Conference)
  • 2014: Universite Paul Sabatier math/info Ph.D. Prize, awarded by the Academie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse, France. 
  • 2014: French Ministry of Defence (DGA) post-doctoral fellowship.
  • 2013: Best Paper Award, IEEE GRSS WHISPERS.
  • 2013: Léopold Escande Ph.D. Prize, awarded by the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT), France.
  • 2010-2013: French Ministry of Research doctoral scholarship.

Memberships

Since 2024: Member of the IEEE SPTM TC
Since 2018: Member of the EURASIP TMTSP TAC
Since 2014: Member of the ISSS Insitute, School of Engineering, Heriot-Watt University.
2010-2013: Member of the IRIT laboratory, SC Group.
Since 2010: Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society.

Teaching activities

Since I joined Heriot-Watt University, I have been involved in undergraduate teaching in Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering:

  • Signals and Systems
  • Mathematics for engineers
  • Graph signal Processing