Prof. Martin Vetterli

President of the National Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation

Martin Vetterli (October 4, 1957 – ) is a Professor of Engineering at the Ecole Potytechnique Férérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the current President of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Martin Vetterli has made numerous research contributions in the general area of digital signal processing (DSP) and is best known for his work on wavelets. He has also contributed to other areas, including sampling (signal processing), computational complexity theory, signal processing for communications, digital video processing and joint source/channel coding. His work has led to over 150 journal publications and to two dozen of patents.