Prof Jean-Michel Morel elected Foreign Member of the Luxembourg Academy of Sciences and Arts

Prof Jean-Michel Morel, Chair Professor of the Division of Industrial Data Science at Lingnan University, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Luxembourg Academy of Sciences and Arts (LASA). The honour recognises his pioneering research extending from mathematical foundations to image analysis and industrial data science, and demonstrating the profound contribution of fundamental mathematics to artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and image analysis, aligning with LASA’s mission to foster interdisciplinary exchange.
 

LASA’s membership comprises over 20 Nobel laureates alongside global pre-eminent scholars who have received prestigious international honours such as the Turing Award, Shaw Prize, and Wolf Prize.
 

Many Prof Morel’s innovations have been widely integrated into imaging systems for smartphones, medical imaging devices, and earth observation satellites. Notably, an image denoising algorithm coinvented by Prof Morel was adopted by the global imaging software and hardware company DxO Labs, and deployed in more than 700 million camera-equipped smartphones to enhance image quality.