Professor Yves Wiaux
Head of Research Institute - Sensors, Signals and Systems
- Campus
- Edinburgh Campus
- Research Institute
- Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems
- Y.Wiaux@hw.ac.uk
- Accepting PhD Students
- Yes
Prof. Wiaux received the MSc degree in Physics and the PhD degree in Theoretical Physics from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve) in Belgium, in 1999 and 2002 respectively.
He was a Senior Researcher at the Signal Processing Laboratories of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland from 2003 to 2013, where he created the BASPLab.
In 2013, Prof. Wiaux moved as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sensors, Signals, and Systems within the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences of Heriot-Watt University---where he transferred BASPLab.
He was promoted to Professor at Heriot-Watt in 2016 and was appointed as Head of the Institute of Sensors, Signals, and Systems in 2024. He is also an Academic Guest at EPFL and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UoE).
The ethos of Prof. Wiaux’s BASPLab is to develop cutting-edge research in computational imaging, from theory and algorithms to applications in astronomy and medicine. He has led numerous research projects in the field, raising a total of £20M from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the UK Research and Innovation Councils (UKRI).
Among other commitments to the research community, Prof. Wiaux chairs the BASP Frontiers Conference series, and serves as an Associate Editor for both the Royal Astronomy Society journal on "Techniques and Instruments" (RASTI), and the IEEE journal on "Transactions on Computational Imaging" (TCI).