Mario A. T. Figueiredo

Mário A. T. Figueiredo
NationalityPortuguese
Occupation(s)Academic and researcher
AwardsFellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow, European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)
Academic background
EducationM.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST, 1990
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST, 1994
Agregação (habilitation), Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST, 2004
Academic work
InstitutionsIST, University of Lisbon

Mário A. T. Figueiredo is a Portuguese engineer and academic. He is an IST Distinguished Professor and holds the Feedzai chair of machine learning at IST, University of Lisbon. His research is focused on signal and image processing.[1]

Figueiredo is a Fellow of European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP),[2] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[3] and of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).[4]

Education

In 1990, Figueiredo received his master's degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also earned his Ph.D. and his habilitation (Agregação) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same institute in 1994 and 2004, respectively.[5]

Career

Mário Figueiredo began his academic career in 1994 as an assistant professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IST, University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2010, he was an associate professor. In 2019, he was became full professor and an IST Distinguished Professor.[6]

Figueiredo has focused his research on machine learning, signal processing and image processing.

Awards and honors

  • 2009 - Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)[4]
  • 2010 - Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[3]
  • 2014 - W. R. G. Baker Award, IEEE
  • 2016 - Individual Technical Achievement Award, EURASIP[7]
  • 2016 - Pierre Devijver Award, IAPR[8]
  • 2019 - Member, the Portuguese Academy of Engineering[9]
  • 2019 - Corresponding Member, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences[10]
  • 2020 - Fellow, EURASIP[2]
  • 2023 - Effective Member, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences[11]

Selected publications

  • Figueiredo, M. A.; Nowak, R. D.; Wright, S. J. (2007). "Gradient projection for sparse reconstruction: Application to compressed sensing and other inverse problems". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 1 (4): 586–597. Bibcode:2007ISTSP...1..586F. doi:10.1109/JSTSP.2007.910281.
  • Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Jain, A. K. (2002). "Unsupervised learning of finite mixture models". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 24 (3): 381–396. doi:10.1109/34.990138.
  • Wright, S. J.; Nowak, R. D.; Figueiredo, M. A. (2009). "Sparse reconstruction by separable approximation". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 57 (7): 2479–2493. Bibcode:2009ITSP...57.2479W. doi:10.1109/TSP.2009.2016892.
  • Bioucas-Dias, J. M.; Figueiredo, M. A. (2007). "A new TwIST: Two-step iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithms for image restoration". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 16 (12): 2992–3004. Bibcode:2007ITIP...16.2992B. doi:10.1109/TIP.2007.909319. PMID 18092598.
  • Figueiredo, M. A.; Nowak, R. D. (2003). "An EM algorithm for wavelet-based image restoration". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 12 (8): 906–916. doi:10.1109/TIP.2003.815261. PMID 18237962.

References

  1. ^ "Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo". Tenico Lisboa. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  2. ^ a b "EURASIP Fellows". European Association for Signal Processing. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  3. ^ a b "IEEE Fellows Directory". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  4. ^ a b "IAPR Fellows". International Associate of Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  5. ^ "Member Highlight: Mário Figueiredo". Singal Processing Society. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  6. ^ "Curriculum Vitae - Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo". Ciencia Vitae. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  7. ^ "EURASIP Awards: Announcement 2016 Society Awards". European Association for Signal Processing. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  8. ^ "Getting to know...Mário Figueiredo, IAPR Fellow" (PDF). The International Association for Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  9. ^ "Academia de Engenharia, Membros". Academia de Engenharia. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  10. ^ "Correspondentes Nacionais". Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. Archived from the original on 2021-08-17. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  11. ^ "Classe de Ciências". Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-18.
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