Sabine J. A. Van Huffel (born September 26, 1958) is a Belgian computer scientist, applied mathematician, and electrical engineer, whose research concerns computational methods for medical diagnostics, and in particular methods based on

total least squares In applied statistics, total least squares is a type of errors-in-variables regression, a least squares data modeling technique in which observational errors on both dependent and independent variables are taken into account. It is a generalizat ...

Education and career

Van Huffel was born in

Menen Menen (; french: Menin ; vls, Mêenn or ) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Menen proper and the towns of Lauwe and Rekkem. The city is situated on the French/ ...

. She earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees from

KU Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...

in 1981 and 1987, with Joos Vandewalle as her

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. Her dissertation, ''Analysis of the Total Least Squares Problem and its use in parameter estimation'', concerned

methods for

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. She is a full professor at KU Leuven since 2002 . and a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc ...

(TU/e) since 2014 (until 2022).

Book

With Vandewalle, Van Huffel is the author of the book ''The Total Least Squares Problem: Computational Aspects and Analysis'' (SIAM, 1991).

Recognition

Van Huffel is a

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of the

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and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from TU/e. In 2016 she was elected as a fellow of the

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"for esteemed accomplishments in bridging the gap between advanced numerical linear algebra techniques and biomedical signal processing". She was elected to the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2017.

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* 1958 births Living people Belgian women computer scientists Belgian women mathematicians KU Leuven alumni Academic staff of KU Leuven Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics {{authority control