Sabine Süsstrunk
Computer scientist
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Sabine Süsstrunk is a computer scientist and professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)[1] in Switzerland, where she leads the Images and Visual Representation Lab[2] and serves as Dean in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences.[3][4][5] Her research areas are in computational imaging and computational photography, color image processing (including spectral sensitivity) and computer vision, and image quality and computational aesthetics. She is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[6] and Society for Imaging Science and Technology[7] and received the Society of Imaging Science and Technology and International Society for Optics and Photonics 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award.[8]
From 2015 to 2020, Süsstrunk was the first director of the Digital Humanities Institute[9] in the College of Humanities at EPFL, and the first director of the Master of Science in the Digital Humanities program.[10] In 2025, Süsstrunk was appointed Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, succeeding Rüdiger Urbanke.[4][5]
From 2016 to 2020, Süsstrunk was a member of the Foundation Council and Executive Committee of the Swiss National Science Foundation.[11] Furthermore, she acted as President of the EPFL WISH Foundation (2014-2018) where she is still member of the board.[12] On January 1, 2018, she joined the Board of Directors of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.[13] As of 2021, Süsstrunk is the president of the Swiss Science Council.