Professor Vetterli holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich (1981), a Master of Science degree from Stanford University (1982) and a PhD from EPFL (1986). He taught at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor. He was subsequently named full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at ETH Zurich and Stanford University. He returned to EPFL as a full Professor in 1995, was Vice President of International Affairs and then Institutional Affairs from 2004 to 2011, and was Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences in 2011 and 2012. He served as President of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2013 to 2016 and has headed EPFL’s Audiovisual Communications Laboratory (LCAV) since 1995. Prof Vetterli was appointed president of EPFL by the Swiss Federal Council in 2017. He has received numerous national and international awards for his research in electrical engineering, computer science and applied mathematics, including the National Latsis Prize in 1996. He is the author of some 50 patents and has published over 170 articles and three reference works.