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, Arnaud Breloy graduated from Ecole Centrale Marseille and recived a Master's degree of Signal and Image Processing from university of Aix-Marseille in 2012-2013. Then, he received his Ph.D. degree from University of Paris Saclay in Signal Processing in 2015. His thesis was done in collaboration between SATIE (ENS Cachan) and SONDRA (Cen-traleSupélec) laboratories. He is currently assistant professor at University Paris X and the LEME laboratory, His research interests focuses on statistical signal processing, array and radar signal processing and robust estimation methods

, Guillaume Ginolhac received the degree of Electrical Engineer in 1997, the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 2001 and the HdR degree from ENS Cachan in 2011. He was Associate Professor of Université Paris X in the SATIE Lab from 2002 to 2010. HE is currently professor of Université de Savoie Mont-Blanc in the LISTIC Lab

, ), he was an Assistant Professor (resp. Associate Professor) in SONDRA, the French-Singaporean laboratory of SUPELEC, Probabilities, Statistics and Applications: Signal, Image et Networks") with merit, in Applied Statistics from University Paris VII -Jussieu, 2003.

, He received the Agrégation de physique appliquée degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Université de Rennes, France, in 1988. Currently, he is, 1960.