EMBS Service Award 2003

Christian Roux

The EMBS Service Award is awarded to individuals who have made significant service contributions to the EMB Society. These contributions must represent uncommon dedication, and a record of exemplary service to the EMB society. The work cited could have appeared in the form of service as an EMBS Officer, AdCom member, editor, associate editor or society member.

The 2003 EMBS Service Award is presented to Christian Roux for:

"For outstanding leadership and contributions to the development and promotion of EMBS' conferences and educational activities, and international collaboration"

Christian ROUX graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 1978, obtained the Ph.D. from the INP Grenoble in 1980 and the Habilitation à diriger des Recherches from the Université de Rennes in 1990. He has been a professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, Brest, France, since 1987. He was the founding Head of the department of Image and Information Processing (1994-2001) and is the founding Director of the Laboratoire de Traitement de l'Information Médicale, an INSERM laboratory since 2001 and a research structure with about 20 faculty, 10 full time researchers and research engineers, and 20 PhD students.

Dr. Roux was a lecturer at the University Institute of Technology of Caracas, Venezuela in 1981-1982, a visiting professor with the MIPG, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1992-1993 and a Distinguished International Research Fellow with the department of Electrical Engineering, University of Calgary in 1996 and 2003.

His research interests concern spatial information modeling and analysis, dynamic shapes for the quantification of structures and function in medical imaging, and advanced medical information processing. Christian ROUX has published around 80 papers, four book chapters, has edited three books, and holds two patents. The research projects leading to the former publications have been conducted within a multidisciplinary team including physicians, clinicians, surgeons, engineers and applied mathematicians. Dr. Roux's experience includes also collaborative research projects with industry at the national and international level. He has supervised around 30 MSc theses and directed 25 PhD students.

Christian Roux has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE transactions on Medical Imaging (1993-2000) and is currently the Chairman of its Steering Committee. He is a co-founding member of the Editorial board of the IEEE T-ITB and a member of the editorial board of the IEEE series in Biomedical Engineering. He was the Vice-President for Conferences of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) of the IEEE in 1998-1999. In 2000-2002, he served as President-Elect, President, and Past-President of EMBS. For the term 2003-2004 he serves as Chair of the IEEE Colloquia Steering Committee.

Dr. Roux is the founding Co-Chair of the IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging held since 1994 in Brittany, France, which has earned a worldwide recognition. He has played a major role in the creation of the new IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, sponsored by EMBS, SPS and the NIH, which he will chair in 2004. He is also the Co-Chair of the first Annual International Conference of EMBS to be held in mainland China (Shanghai 2005).

In March 2001,Christian Roux became a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of medical and biological engineering. He is a scientific expert for both national (CNRS, INSERM) and international (NIH, European Union) institutions. He has been involved in the creation of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science as a member of its Protem group, and has been elected a member of EAMBES Council representing EMBS. At national level (France), he has pioneered the creation of the National Research Network in Health Technology and the integrated programs between CNRS and INSERM. He received the "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques" French award in 1996 for his leadership in Academia.