Joos Vandewalle
Biography
One of the world’s most impactful circuits and systems experts, Joos Vandewalle has made sustained contributions to many aspects of the field, providing theoretical insights and practical algorithms to applications ranging from secure data communications to data mining and complex systems. He supervised the postdocs that designed the Advanced Encryption Standard, one of the most used approaches to secure data communications. He has also worked to simplify the computational complexity of support vector machines, using a least-squares approach for learning-based classifiers. His work on enhancing the theory behind singular-value decomposition by extending it to multilinear dimensions has opened the door to addressing complex data-mining challenges and has been effective for signal separation in sensor fusion and medical signal processing applications. An IEEE Life Fellow, Vandewalle is a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
