Vivek K Goyal
MIT, Cambridge, USA

Vivek Goyal received the B.S. degree in mathematics and the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering (both with highest distinction) from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where in 1998, he received the Eliahu Jury Award for outstanding
achievement in systems, communications, control, or signal processing.

He was a Research Assistant in the Laboratoire de Communications Audiovisuelles at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1996. He worked in the Mathematics of Communications Research Department of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as an intern in 1997 and again as a Member of Technical Staff from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003 he was a Senior Research Engineer for Digital Fountain, Inc., Fremont, CA. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004, where he is currently Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and leads the Signal Transformation and Information Representation group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics. His research interests include sampling, source coding theory, quantization theory, and practical, robust network content delivery.

Dr. Goyal is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and SIAM. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves on the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Image and Multiple Dimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee. He also serves on several technical program committees and as a permanent Co-Chair of the SPIE Wavelets conference series.

He was awarded the 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Award for "Multiple Description Coding: Compression Meets the Network" and an NSF CAREER award.

Manos Papadakis
University of Houston, USA

Manos Papadakis received his B.S. and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Athens in Greece. He worked as a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Mathematics in Washington University in St. Louis. He worked as lecturer at the University of Ioannina in Epirus in Greece. He joined the Department of Mathematics of the University of Houston in 1999 and he is an Associate Professor.

His research interests are focused in the area of multiresolution analysis and frames in many dimensions and of their applications on texture identification. Among his current projects are the detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque in coronary arteries and of liver cancer in early stages of development. Since 2004 he is permanent co-chair of the SPIE Wavelets conference series.

Dimitri Van De Ville
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Dimitri Van De Ville received the M.S. degree in Engineering and Computer Sciences in 1998 from Ghent University, Belgium. He obtained a grant as Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders Belgium (FWO) and pursued his Ph.D. at the Medical Signal and Image Processing group of the same university. This work received several awards such as the Barco Award, Sidmar Technology Award, and the European ISTP Nominee label.

In 2002, he came to the Biomedical Imaging Group of Prof. Michael Unser at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he continues his research up to today. From December 2005, he become responsible for the Signal Processing Antenna at the University Hospital of Geneva as part of the Centre d'imagerie biomédicale (CIBM). His research interests include wavelets, statistical analysis, multi-dimensional splines, and applications in biomedical imaging such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, spectroscopy, electro-encephalography, and microscopy.

Dr. Van De Ville serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (since February 2006), and was previously an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2004-2006). Since 2003, he is also editor and webmaster of The Wavelet Digest, a non-commercial electronic newsletter for the wavelet community with more than 22000 subscribers. He organized the "Wavelets and Applications" semester of EPFL's Bernoulli Center, together with Martin Vetterli and Michael Unser, and WavE2006, its associated international conference (July 2006).