Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

Biography: Jean-Philippe Ovarlez (M'06) was born in Denain, France in 1963. He received jointly the engineering degree from Ecole Supérieure d'Electronique Automatique et Informatique (ESIEA), Paris, France, and the Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies degree in Signal Processing from the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Paris VI, Paris, France, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. In 2011, he obtained a Research Directorship Habilitation (HDR) thesis in Signal Processing from the University of Paris-Sud and his qualification for the University Professor position. In 1992, he joined the Electromagnetic and Radar Division of the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA), Palaiseau, France, where he is currently Research Director and a member of the Scientific Committee of the ONERA Physics Domain. Since 2008, he has been attached at part-time to CentraleSupélec SONDRA Lab, in charge of Signal Processing activities supervision. In 2015, he became member of Special Area Team (SAT) in Theoretical and Methodological Trends in Signal Processing (TMTSP), EURASIP, and treasurer of the IEEE GRSS French Chapter in 2016. His research interests are centered on Statistical Signal Processing for radar and SAR applications such as Time-Frequency, imaging, detection, and parameter estimation.