Yannick DEVILLE: biography

Yannick Deville was born in Lyon, France, in 1964. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (Brest, France) in 1986. He received the D.E.A and Ph.D. degrees, both in Microelectronics, from the University of Grenoble (France), in 1986 and 1989 respectively. From 1986 to 1997, he was a Research Scientist at Philips Research Labs (Limeil, France). His investigations during that period concerned various fields, including GaAs integrated microwave RC active filters, VLSI cache memory architectures and replacement algorithms, neural network algorithms and applications, and nonlinear systems. Since 1997, he has been a Professor at the University of Toulouse (France). From 1997 to 2004, he was with the Acoustics lab of that University. Since 2004, he has been with the Astrophysics lab in Toulouse, which is part of the University, of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and of the Midi-Pyrénées Observatory. Yannick Deville’s current major research interests include signal and image processing (especially hyperspectral data), higher-order statistics, time-frequency analysis, neural networks, quantum entanglement phenomena, and especially Blind Source Separation and Blind Identification methods (including Independent Component Analysis, Sparse Component Analysis and Nonnegative Matrix Factorization) and their applications to Remote Sensing, Astrophysics and Quantum Information Processing (Blind Quantum Source Separation and Blind Quantum Process Tomography).