Ercan E. Kuruoğlu received his PhD degree in information engineering from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 1998. Afterwards, he joined Xerox Research Center Europe, Cambridge. He was an ERCIM fellow in 2000 with INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France. In January 2002, he joined ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy where he became a Chief Scientist in 2020. He has been a Full Professor at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute since 2022. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He was the Editor in Chief of Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier between 2011 and 2021. He is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the Franklin Institute. He acted as a Technical co-Chair for EUSIPCO 2006 and a Tutorials co-Chair of ICASSP 2014. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Data Challenges Committee, IEEE Technical Committees (TC) on Machine Learning for Signal Processing and on Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing. He was a plenary speaker at ISSPA 2010, IEEE SIU 2017, Entropy 2018, MIIS 2020, IET Radar and tutorial speaker at IEEE ICSPCC 2012. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow in the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in 2013-2015. His research interests are in the areas of statistical signal and image processing and Bayesian learning with applications in remote sensing, environmental sciences, telecommunications and computational biology.