Jean-Yves TOURNERET (SM’08, F'19) received the ingénieur degree in electrical engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, d’Electrotechnique, d’Informatique, d’Hydraulique et des Télécommunications (ENSEEIHT) de Toulouse in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree from the National Polytechnic Institute from Toulouse in 1992. He is currently a professor in the university of Toulouse (ENSEEIHT) and a member of the IRIT laboratory (UMR 5505 of the CNRS). His research activities are centered around statistical signal and image processing with a particular interest to Bayesian and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. He has been a member of different technical committees including the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2001-2007, 2010-2015) and the EURASIP SAT committee on Theoretical and Methodological Trends in Signal Processing (2015-2019). In 2019, He becomes president of the French Association GRETSI and joined the board of directors of EURASIP. He has been serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2008-2011, 2015-2019) and for the EURASIP journal on Signal Processing (2013-2019).