Alessandro Foi received the M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in 2001, the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Politecnico di Milano in 2005, and the D.Sc.Tech.  degree in Signal Processing from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2007. He is Professor of Signal Processing at Tampere University, Finland.

His research interests include mathematical and statistical methods for signal processing, functional and harmonic analysis, and computational modeling of the human visual system. His work focuses on spatially adaptive (anisotropic, nonlocal) algorithms for the restoration and enhancement of digital images, on noise modeling for imaging devices, and on the optimal design of statistical transformations for the stabilization, normalization, and analysis of random data.

He is a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and an Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. He is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

Goëry Genty carries out both experimental, numerical, and theoretical work in ultrafast photonics. He established the Ultrafast Photonics research group at the Tampere University in 2007. The group is a pioneer and worldwide leader in ultrafast laser dynamics, real-time characterization techniques, nonlinear instabilities, broadband light generation and correlation imaging. Prof. Genty is also the Director of the Flagship on Photonics Research and Innovation awarded in 2019 by the Academy of Finland. The Flagship is a joint national program for Photonics multi-disciplinary science and technology development, including 3 Finnish Universities (Tampere University, Aalto University, and Eastern Finland) and one research organization (VTT), involving more than 50 professors and 400 researchers.

Over the past 10 years, prof. Genty has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, given more than 100 invited talks at international conferences. He has contributed to the writing of review articles in Reviews of Modern Physics, Nature Reviews Physics, Nature Photonics, etc. In 2011, Goëry Genty was awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Prize “for outstanding contributions in pulse propagation and ultra-fast dynamics in nonlinear optical fibers, particularly his groundbreaking results on supercontinuum generation and nonlinear instabilities”. In 2017, he was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America for “pioneering research in the study of supercontinuum generation and nonlinear instabilities in optical fibers.

Professor Jyrki Saarinen received his D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in 1995 from Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), now Aalto University, where he is still Adjunct Professor of Micro-Optics. He also holds an MBA from TKK Executive School of Business. From 1998 to 2013 he worked as Senior VP and Member of the Board at Heptagon, which he co-founded and then built to the world-leading developer and manufacturer of advanced micro-optics with over one thousand employees and operations in Singapore, Switzerland, and Silicon Valley, where he lived seven years before starting his professorship in 2013.

At UEF his main research topic is 3D printed photonics. He is Head of the Institute of Photonics and Head of the Department of Physics and Mathematics.

He is President of Photonics Finland, and past president of Finnish Physical Society and past executive director of European Optical Society.