Bernard Picinbono is a French scientist born in 1933 in

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. His scientific work focuses on

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

and its applications in

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of optical instruments, instruments that use or Photodetector, detect it. Optics usually describes t ...

electronics Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other Electric charge, electrically charged particles. It is a subfield ...

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, Scalar potential, potential fields, Seismic tomograph ...

and

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machine ...

Biography

He did his secondary and higher education in Algiers and then in

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where he obtained the agrégation de sciences physiques. He was associate professor of physical sciences at the Algiers high school from 1956 to 1960 and then, after obtaining a doctorate in science, lecturer at the Faculty of Science in Algiers from 1960 to 1965. He was then appointed professor at the Orsay Faculty of Sciences. He was President of the University of Paris XI (now

Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University (, ) is a combined technological research institute and public research university in Orsay, France. Paris-Saclay was established in 2019 after the merger of four technical ''grandes écoles,'' as well as several technol ...

) from 1970 to 1975, President of SupOptique (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Optics) from 1980 to 1990, and Director General of

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from 1990 to 1995. In the early 1980s, he was director of the master (DEA) in Automation and Signal Processing at the University of Paris XI and lectures at Supélec's signals and systems laboratory. He is Professor Emeritus at the

and at

CentraleSupélec CentraleSupélec (, CS) is one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles in France and is a member of the graduate engineering school of Paris-Saclay University in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. It was established on 1 January 2015, as a ...

. Bernard Picinbono was President of Cimade from 1970 to 1983 and again from 1997 to 2002.

Awards

* Member of the

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, elected correspondant in 1983. * Member of the

French Academy of technologies The National Academy of Technologies of France (''Académie des technologies'') is a learned society, founded in 2000, with an emphasis on technology, and the newest of French academies. In 2007 it acquired the status of ''établissement public'', ...

. * Recipient in 1970 of the Blondel Medal awarded by the Electricity, Electronics and Information and Communication Technologies Society * Fellow of the

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for contributions to signal processing, adaptive detection and stochastic processes. * Officier of the

Légion d'Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

(July 2009) * Officier of the

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* Commandeur des

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(2008)

Publications

*B. Picinbono. On Instantaneous Amplitude and Phase of Signals. IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 45:552-560, 1997. ibtex-entry *B. Picinbono and W. Martin. Représentation des signaux par amplitude et phase instantanées. Annales des Télécommunications, 38:179-190, 1983. ibtex-entry

References

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