Alfred Bruckstein

Alfred Marcel Bruckstein (born January 24, 1954) is a scientist, an emeritus professor at the Technion., and a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University. In 2014 Bruckstein was recognized as a SIAM fellow for contributions to signal processing, image analysis, and ant robotics, in 2023 he was elected an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) fellow and IEEE fellow for contributions to signal representations and swarm robotics, in 2024 he became an elected fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and in 2025 he became a member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI).

Academic career

Bruckstein began his studies at the Technion faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he received his B.Sc. in 1976 and M.Sc. in 1981 . He continued his studies at Stanford University under the guidance of Thomas Kailath, receiving his Ph.D in 1984, after which he returned to the Technion. At the Technion he was bestowed with the Franz Ollendorff chair of science and head of the excellence program (2006–2011) . Bruckstein has written over 300 scientific papers and contributed to nine US patents Bruckstein's research topics include sparse representations, various aspects of computer vision, pattern recognition, image registration, fiducial design, and ant robotics.

Awards

2014 SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science Best Paper Prize, along with David L. Donoho and Michael Elad for their paper titled "From Sparse Solutions of Systems of Equations to Sparse Modeling of Signals and Images". 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Sustained Impact Paper Award with Michal Aharon and Michael Elad for their paper titled "The K-SVD: An Algorithm for Designing of Overcomplete Dictionaries for Sparse Representation". Doctor Honoris Causa of Agora University, Oradea, Romania, 2018.

Publications

Signal Processing

Computer Vision

Ant Robotics

Image Registration

Sparse Representation