Distinguished Lecture Series : Blind Source Separation : From Basic Concepts to New Challenges

Karim Abed-Meraim received the State Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, in 1990, the State Engineering degree from École nationale supérieure des telecommunications (ENST), Paris, France, in 1992, the M.Sc. degree from Paris XI University, Orsay, France, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree from ENST in 1995, all in the field of signal processing and communications. From 1995 to 1998, he was a research staff member with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Melbourne, where he was involved in several research project related to blind system identification for wireless communications, blind source separation, and array processing for communications. From 1998 to 2012, he was an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor with the Signal and Image Processing Department, Telecom ParisTech. In 2012, he joined the PRISME Laboratory, Universite d’Orleans, France, as a Full Professor. Dr. Abed-Meraim was a Visiting Scholar with the Centre of Wireless Communications, National University of Singapore, in 1999; with the Electrical Engineering Department, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2001; with the Telecom Malaysia Research and Development Centre in 2004; with the School of Engineering and Mathematics, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, in 2004; with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, in 2006; with Sharjah University, UAE, from 2008 to 2009; with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2013; and with the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in 2015 and 2017. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications, including book chapters, international journal and conference papers, and patents. His research interests include statistical signal processing, system identification, blind source separation, adaptive filtering and tracking, array processing, and statistical performance analysis.