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K. Kayabol, J. Zerubia, and P. Photo, he was a ICTP Postdoctoral Fellow in the ISTI at CNR he was awarded as an ERCIM Postdoctoral Fellow he spent his ERCIM fellowship periods in the Ariana Research Group at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France and in the Probability and Stochastic Networks Group at CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Since he has been a TUBITAK returning scholar postdoctoral fellow in Electronics & Communications Eng. Dept. at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He is an associate editor of Digital Signal Processing since His research interests include Bayesian parametric and non-parametric inference, statistical image models, image classification/segmentation and blind source separation. PLACE PHOTO HERE Josiane Zerubia (S'78, M'81, SM'99, F'03) has been a permanent research scientist at INRIA since 1989, and director of research since She was head of the PASTIS remote sensing laboratory (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis) from mid-1995 to), which worked on inverse problems in remote sensing, she has been head of Ayin research group (INRIA-SAM) dedicated to hierchical and stochastic models for remote sensing and skincare imaging. She has been professor at SUPAERO (ISAE) in Toulouse since 1999. Before that, she was with the Signal and Image Processing Institute of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los-Angeles as a postdoc. She also worked as a researcher for the LASSY (University of Nice/CNRS) from 1984 to 1988 and in the Research Laboratory of Hewlett Packard in France and in Palo-Alto (CA) from She is a Fellow of the IEEE, She received the MSc degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at ENSIEG in 1981, and the Doctor of Engineering degree, her PhD, and her 'Habilitation She has also been a member of the editorial board of the French Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (SFPT) since 1998 of the International Journal of Computer Vision since 2004, and of the Foundation and Trends in Signal Processing since 2007. She has been associate editor of the on-line resource: Earthzine (IEEE CEO and GEOSS), p.7700, 1977.