CHONAVEL Thierry

Education

• Accreditation to supervise researches, Rennes-I University, 2001
• PhD at Télécom ParisTech, 1992
• Master at Télécom Bretagne,  1987

 
Professional experience

• From 2003: full professor at IMT-Atlantique (formerly Télécom Bretagne) in the Signal and Communication department, formerly associate professor (1995-2002).
• 1993-95: assistant professor at the Franco-Polish School of Telecommunications (Poznan, Poland), in charge of the signal processing activity
• 1990-92: PhD thesis at Télécom Paris: complete resolution of the trigonometric moment problem on an interval and application to array processing
• 1988-89: project engineer at Alcatel ATFH (Paris): project coordination for a 16QAM radio-link among Alcatel Laboratories and with Standard Electronic Lorentz (Germany)
   

Teaching activities

• Teaching in mathematics for engineering and machine learning
• Past and present teaching activities: probabilities, measure theory, random processes, stochastic differential equations, Monte Carlo techniques, statistical signal processing, linear and nonlinear filtering, numerical analysis, convex optimization, array processing, digital transmissions, Matlab/Python/Julia/C/Go scientific programming.

 
Research activities

• Research in signal processing and digital transmissions
• Member of Lab-STICC (UMR 6285): head of team TOMS (Traitement, Observations et Méthodes Statistiques, 2012-2016);
• Deputy head of the lab for IMT-Atlantique since 2020.
• Direction of PhD students (27, 24 defended), PhDs examinations (>50)
• Publications: (~50 journal papers, 2 books, >100 conference papers)
• Participation to conference committees, journal and conference reviews.

Research interests 

• Machine learning, statistical signal processing and digital communications

Recent activities

• Radar processing for airborne systems and driving aid: waveforms design, non-line of sight radar tracking in urban areas
• Underwater acoustics: active sonar processing (particle filtering for multi-target tracking and sea floor reconstruction) and passive acoustics (source depth discrimination, sparse propagating modes recovery)
• Networks: Markovian modelling of internet traffic via HMM modelling using HDP-HMM and non-parametric models, algebraic connectivity in graphs.
• Array processing: HF array antenna design via sparse optimization.
• Transmissions: chanel estimation for OTFS modulations.

Current PhD students. Currently, I am involved in the supervision of the following PhD students:

• Pham, Ba Huy (started 2020), ONERA and SONDRA grant, Around-the-corner radar, detection and localization of hidden targets in urban areas.
• Ghandi, Sanaa (started 2020), Brest Metropole and IMT Atlantique grant, Machine learning for networks monitoring.
• Chloé Mercier (started oct. 2021), Latim grant, High resolution reconstruction of MRI data IRM for the studuy of brain development..
• Anthony Torre (started dec. 2021), ONERA grant, Formes d'ondes