Martin Vetterli

Martin Vetterli    (engineer, academic)
Born	1957-10-04
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	ETH Zurich, Stanford
Interests	Mathematical signal processing
Swiss academic who attended the 2016 Bilderberg and several WEF AGMs. Board member of Microsoft's CyberPeace Institute.  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/President In office 1 January 2017 - January 1, 2025 Succeeded by Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

Martin Vetterli is the president of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He's a professor of engineering and attended the 2016 Bilderberg meeting as president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Career

Martin Vetterli received his electrical engineering degree from ETH Zurich in 1981, and then completed a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1982. He later pursued his PhD at EPFL in 1986.

After his dissertation, he was an assistant and associate professor in electrical engineering at Columbia University in New York, and in 1993, he became an associate and then full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley in California.

In 1995, he joined EPFL as a full-time professor. He held several positions there, including chair of communication systems and founding director of the National Competence Center in Research on Mobile Information and Communication systems (NCCR-MICS). From 2004 to 2011, he was vice president of EPFL for international affairs and, from 2011 to 2012, he was the dean of the School of Computer and Communications Sciences at EPFL.

Martin Vetterli has made numerous research contributions in the general area of digital signal processing and is best known for his work on wavelets. He has also contributed to other areas, including sampling (signal processing), computational complexity theory, signal processing for communications, digital video processing and joint source/channel coding. His work has led to over 150 journal publications and to two dozen of patents.

In 2015, he was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the development of time-frequency representations and algorithms in multimedia signal processing and communications.

From 2013 to 2016 he was the president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, before being elected as the president of EPFL in Switzerland.

CyberPeace Institute

Since September 2019, he has been part of the board of directors of the CyberPeace Institute in Geneva, an NGO that highlights the societal and human impact of cyberattacks., funded by four main donors: Hewlett-Packard, the Ford Foundation, Mastercard and Microsoft. The CyberPeace Institute was created in September 2019, in parallel with the Swiss Digital Initiative, a foundation bringing together large companies such as Microsoft, Credit Suisse, Google, Huawei, Ringier and Swisscom. The creation of these two organizations succeeded the organization of the Geneva Digital Talks of 2017, an initiative launched by the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, who wished to position Geneva as a global hub for the regulation of technologies related to the internet. Attacks on hospitals and "vaccination" centers during the "Covid-19 pandemic" were treated as a priority when the institute was created.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2016	9 June 2016	12 June 2016	Germany Dresden	The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2951 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World Economic Forum Switzerland	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	World Economic Forum Switzerland	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2022	22 May 2022	26 May 2022	Switzerland	1912 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	World Economic Forum Switzerland	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

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