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F. Pascal, Frederic Pascal is a full Professor in the SONDRA laboratory at SUPELEC. His research interests contain estimation, detection and classification in statistical signal processing and radar processing, he made a post-doctoral position in the Signal Processing and Information team of the laboratory SATIE (Système et Applications des Technologies de l'Information et de l'Energie), 1968.