Old home page: https://www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~pierre.comon/
New home page: https://www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/user/pierre.comon/

Employment

• Emeritus research director, CNRS Grenoble (2023-2027)
• Research director, Gipsa-Lab, UMR5216 associated wih CNRS and University of Grenoble Alpes (2012-2022)
• Research director, Laboratory I3S, associated with CNRS and University of Nice cote d'Azur (1998-2012) at Sophia Antipolis
• Eurecom institute (1997-1998)
• Senior scientist in industry: Thomson/Thales (1988-1997)
• Visiting scholar: ISL laboratory, Stanford (1986-1987) and INRIA
  
• Research engineer in industry: Crouzet/Sextant/Thales (1982-1985)

Responsibilities

• Director of Labex Persyval2 (Nov 2019 - Aug 2022)
• Member of the research board of Labex Persyval-Lab (2015-2019), as scientific manager of the ADM research action
• Deputy director of the MSTIC research dept of the community of Universities of Grenoble-Alpes.
(fall 2015-fall 2017)
• Prime Investigator of the ERC AdG-2013-320594 Decoda (2013-2018)
• Member of the City council of Peymeinade (2008-2012), under the term of F.Brousteau
• Director of the STIC doctoral school (2008-2010)
• Head of SIS department (2008-2009)
• Coordinator of the ANR project  Decotes (2007-2010)
• Vice director of the STIC doctoral school (2005-2008)
• Head of the SiCom master's program (1999-2005)
• Head of the Astre team (1998-2007)
  
• Head of the LTS team (1991-1993)
• Coordinator of the Basic Research Working Group ATHOS (1992-1995); see also TS link.
  

Prizes & distinctions

• Fellow of SIAM (2019), SIAM Life Fellow (2022)
• IMT Grand Prize awarded by the the French Academy of Sciences (2018)
• Recipient of the CNRS silver medal (2018)
• Fellow of Eurasip (2017)
• Fellow of the IEEE (2007)
• Individual Technical Achievement Award from Eurasip (2006)
• Emeritus member of the SEE (2006)
• Monpetit prize from the French Academy of Sciences (2005), rewarding works with industrial applications)
• IEEE CAS distinguished lecturer over the period 2002-2003
• Between Jan 1992 and 1998, member of the Technical and Scientific Council of the Thomson Group (multinational Company employing 96,000 persons over 50 countries - now renamed Thales)

Editorial boards

• Associate editor of SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Appl. (2011-2017)
• Associate editor of Signal Processing (2006-2011)
• Associate editor of  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (2001-2004)
• Member of IEEE technical committees: SAM (2005-08), SPTM (2006-2012), BSP (2001-2011)
• Associate editor of  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1995-1998)

Expertises

• Member of Eurasip Signal Processing best paper award (2014-2016)
• Member of expert panel, European Research Council Executive Agency, StG, (2010-2013)
  
• Nominated member of the National Committee of Scientific Research between Sept. 1995 and Jul. 2000 (section 07 - Information Science and Technology: Computer Science, Automatic Control, Signal Processing)
• Elected member of the National Committee of Scientific Research between 1995 and 1998 (section 42 - Economic, Social and Cultural Valorisation of Research)
• Member of Eurasip Signal Processing best paper award (1999-2000)
• member of evaluation committees of 8 UMR research laboratories between 1997 and 2006
• member of the Scientific committee of Supelec, Signal & Statistics panel (2007-2011)
• member of recruitment commissions: Univ. of Toulon-Var (2001-04 and (2004-07), Univ. of Nice (2002-05, 2005-08, and 2009), INRIA (2010)
  
• about 140 PhD or HdR juries
• ...

Miscellaneous

• Member of the GRETSI AdCom (2006-2012)
• the Decotes home page on tensor decompositions and applications
• the web page of the ERC Advanced Grant DECODA