Lausanne Heart

Lukas Kappenberger, MD

Lukas Kappenberger received the M.D. degree in 1971 from the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. He received the diploma in internal medicine in 1975 and in cardiology in 1980.

From 1979 to 1985, he worked in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. From 1985 to 2006, he was the Head of the Division of Cardiology of the University Hospital of Canton de Vaud (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 1st of August 2006, he is vice-president of the "Pôle cardiovasculaire et métabolisme du CHUV" (CardioMet), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Adriaan van Oosterom, PhD

Adriaan van Oosterom received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 1971 and 1978, respectively, both from the University of Amsterdam, studying cardiac potential distributions. From 1971 to 1982, he worked at the Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Department of Experimental Cardiology, University of Amsterdam, where he researched the electrical activity of the heart.

Next he was appointed as Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His main research interests are in the field of bioelectric phenomena, particularly the study of volume conduction aspects of potential theory, and that of related signal analysis (Earlier publications and downloads).

Since January 2004, Adiraan van Oosterom is a Medtronic invited professor at the Service of Cardiology, CHUV.

Nathalie Virag, PhD

Nathalie Virag received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Her Ph.D. degree thesis was in the field of speech enhancement and recognition.

From 1996 to 1998, she worked as Research Assistant at the Signal Processing Laboratory, EPFL, in the field of biomedical signal processing and computer modeling. She is currently with Medtronic in Switzerland as Research Scientist.

Jean-Marc Vesin, PhD

Jean-Marc Vesin graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Ingnieur de Grenoble (ENSIEG), Grenoble, France, in 1980. He received the M.S. degree from Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, in 1984, where he spent four years on research projects. After two years in industry, he joined the Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Swizerland, where he received the Ph.D degree in 1992.

Since then, he has been in charge of the activities in one-dimensional signal processing at LTS. His main interests are biomedical signal processing, nonlinear signal modeling and analysis, and the applications of genetic algorithms in signal processing.

Jérôme Van Zaen, PhD Student

Andrea Buttu, PhD Student

Andrea Buttu was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She received the M.Sc. degree in Communication Systems in 2008 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. She is currently doing her Ph.D in the Applied Signal Processing Group (ASPG), EPFL. She is working in collaboration with the University Hospital (CHUV) on defining new ablative strategies for long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation.

Alain Viso, Research assistant

Alain Viso received the M.S. degree in communication systems in 2011 from the Swiss Federal Institue of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined the Signal Processing Institute (LTS) as a Research assitant. He is working in collaboration with Medtronic on pacing strategies to treat atrial fibrillation.

Former Members

Vincent Jacquemet, PhD

Vincent Jacquemet was born in Sion, Switzerland. He received the M.S. degree in physics in 2000 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering in 2004 from the Signal Processing Institute of EPFL. The topic of his thesis was the development of biophysical models of atrial fibrillation. He worked as a postdoc researcher in the Lausanne Heart Group at the EPFL and at Duke University, Department of Biomedical Engineering.

He is now associate researcher in the Department of Physiology and Research Center at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur (HSCM) in Montréal, Canada.

His research interests include complex dynamical systems, biophysical modeling, numerical simulation and signal processing.

Mathieu Lemay, PhD

Mathieu Lemay received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2003 from Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering in 2007 from the Signal Processing Institute of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. The topic of his dissertation was the characterization of atrial fibrillation via different data processing techniques. He is currently working as a researcher in collaboration with the Lausanne Heart Group and SCHILLER AG.

He is now working as a postdoc in the Department of Physiology (PYL) at the University of Bern

His research interests include heart arrhythmias, mainly the atrial fibrillation, therapies, and related signal processing techniques.

Cédric Duchêne, PhD

Cédric Duchêne recieved the Ph.D degree in Signal Processing from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France) in 2007. The topic of his dissertation was the study of the noise improvement of the signal processing in the human visual system. He is currently working as a researcher at the EPFL and MOTILIS S.A.R.L.

His research interests focus on analysis of human visual system, modeling and analysis of the gastrointestinal motility and related signal processing techniques. More recently his research interests include the study of the atrial fibrillation, specifically the modelisation and the detection of atrial fibrillation reentries.

Yann Prudat, PhD

Yann Prudat received the M.S. degree in physics in 2004 from the Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He is currently doing his Ph.D. in the Signal Processing Institute of EPFL on the development of frequency tracking algorithms. His research interests include nonlinear signal processing, time-frequency analysis and biomedical signal processing.

Aline Cabasson, PhD

Aline Cabasson received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the Engineering School Polytech'Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France, and, in parallel the M.Sc. degree in signal processing and communication from the University of Nice, in 2005. From October 2005 to December 2008, she has been pursuing a Ph.D. degree in automatic, image and signal processing at the Laboratory I3S, CNRS - University of Nice, France. My supervisor was P. Olivier MESTE. She was teaching assistant from October 2005 to August 2009 at Engineering School Polytech'Nice (Electronic Department), Sophia Antipolis, France.

From April 2009 to July 2009, she has been in a post-doctoral position in Laboratory I3A (GTC Group) in the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Since September 2009, she has a post-doctoral position with the Applied Signal Processing Group (ASPG), EPFL and Schiller AG. Her research interests include biomedical signal processing, especially in the analysis of the electrocardiograms.

Florian Jousset, PhD

Florian Jousset received the M.S. degree in communication systems in 2006 from the Swiss Federal Institue of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined the Signal Processing Institute (LTS) as a PhD student. He is working in collaboration with the University Hospital (CHUV) on pacing-induced atrial remodeling.

Laurent Uldry, PhD

Laurent Uldry received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2006 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He then worked as a research assistant in the university hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) in the area of biomedical signal processing and imaging. In may 2008, he joined the Lausanne Heart Group and the Signal Processing Institute of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), where he is currently doing a PhD thesis. His thesis work is mainly related to atrial fibrillation dynamics, pacing strategies and complexity analysis.

His research interests include the analysis of complex physiological signals, heart arrhythmias, and related signal processing techniques.

Zenichi Ihara, PhD

Zenichi Ihara was born in Chiba, Japan on August 11th 1978. He received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering at Sophia University, Japan in March 2001, and followed the postgraduate course in Biomedical Engineering at EPFL from February to September 2001.

He joined the Lausanne Heart Group in December 2001, and was successfully given the degree of Doctor of Science in July 2006 for the thesis: "Design and performance of lead systems for the analysis of atrial signal components in the ECG".

After a few years at Medtronic, Tokyo, he came back to Medtronic Switzerland, in Tolochenaz

Lam Dang, PhD

Lam Dang was born in Saigon, Vietnam, on october 16, 1974. He received his diploma in microtechnic engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, in march 2001 and his postgraduate biomedical engineering diploma in november 2001.

For his diploma work, Lam worked on a development of an Atomic Force Microscopy at the "Institut de Systemes Robotiques" (ISR) of the EPFL. He joined Dr Jean-Marc Vesin's group at Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS) in june 2001, where he has done his biomedical diploma work on Analysis of Evoked Potentials within Electroencephalogram. He received his Ph.D. degree in December 2005 for his work "An Investigation into Therapies for Atrial Arryhtmias using a Biophysical Model of the Human Atria". He is currently working in Klinik im Park in HezGefässZentrum, Zürich.

Craig S. Henriquez, PhD

Craig S. Henriquez received the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, in 1988.

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. His research centers on the application of computer modeling to understanding the spread of electrical activity in the normal and diseased hearts and mechanisms of stimulation and defibrillation. Craig Henriquez is a Medtronic invited professor at the Service of Cardiology, CHUV.

Olivier Blanc, PhD

Olivier Blanc was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, on 29th May 1970. He received his diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1994. He worked for three years as research and teaching assistant in a mechanical engineering lab at EPFL. In 1997 he followed a postgraduate course in biomedical engineering at EPFL and University of Lausanne. He did his diploma thesis at LTS, working on heart rate variability analysis. He received his Ph.D. degree at EPFL in 2002. He is currently with CAI Ingénierie Informatique.

Steeve Zozor was born in 1972 in Colmar, France. He received the Electrical Engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Electriciens de Grenoble (ENSIEG; electrical engineering school), Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1995. He received the DEA degree and the Doctor degree in signal processing in 1995 and in 1999 respectively, both from the INPG. In 2001, He spent several months at the Signal Processing Laboratory in the Lausanne Heart Group.

He is currently Chargé de Recherche (CR2) with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and He is working in the Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux (LIS, UMR 5083), Grenoble, France.