Rachid Deriche

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ABOUT RACHID DERICHE

I graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris in 1979. I then received the Ph.D degree in Mathematics from the University of Paris IX, Dauphine in 1982 and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR diploma) from Nice Sophia Antipolis University in 1991. I did my Ph.D thesis at Inria, the French National Institute in Computer Science and Control and got my PhD diploma in Mathematics from University of Paris IX, Dauphine, 1982. As an Inria researcher, I mainly contributed to te domains of image processing, computer vision and neuro-imaging, I did my research activity at Inria Rocquencourt, Yvelines, close to Paris, till 1988 and then at Inria Sophia Antipolis, close to Nice in the French riviera. So I started to contribute to the fields of image processing in the early 80′s and then moved to the domain of computer vision in the early 90′s before shifting my research interest to the domain of neuro-imaging in the early am currently Research Director at INRIA Sophia Antipols – Mediterranee where I lead the research activities of the Athena Project Team with the objectives to explore the Central Nervous System (CNS) using computational imaging. We focus on signal and image recording from Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI), Magneto-Encephalography (MEG) and Electro-Encephalography (EEG). Our goal is to develop rigorous mathematical models and computational tools for acquiring, modelling and analysing the complex CNS anatomy and function. These models and tools will help us to better understand the architecture and the functioning of the human CNS. Exploring innovative directions to solve these challenging problems will push forward the state-of-the-art in Computational Anatomical and Functional CNS Imaging and in a long term, will help our collaborators with hospitals to use our expertise to address important clinical and neuroscience questions.