Cédric Richard (S'98, M'01, SM'07) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Technology of Compiègne, France, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor (Exceptional Class) in Electrical Engineering at Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France. He has been a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), first as a Junior Member (2010–2015) and currently as a Senior Member (2025–2030).

He has held a senior chair on AI for Smart Cities at the 3IA Côte d’Azur Institute, France, since 2020, and a senior chair at the SURE-AI Institute, Oslo, Norway, since 2026.

Prof. Richard has authored more than 380 publications. His research interests lie in statistical signal processing and machine learning, with a particular focus on online learning, nonlinear system identification, adaptive signal processing, distributed and online learning over networks, and graph signal processing. With Prof. Petar Djuric, he co-edited the reference book Cooperative and Graph Signal Processing: Principles and Applications (Academic Press, 2018).

Since 2024, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing (Elsevier).

His recent leadership roles also include Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods (2023–2024) and Director-at-Large (Region 8) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2019–2020). He was also an elected member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (2012–2018). Prof. Richard served as Senior Area Chair for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2020–2022) and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2015–2018). He also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (2019–2022), Signal Processing (Elsevier) (2009–2019), the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2006–2010), and the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks (2015–2018).

Prof. Richard was General Co-Chair of EUSIPCO 2020, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He also served as Local Co-Chair of the IEEE CAMSAP 2019 Workshop. He was Special Session Chair of the IEEE SAM 2016 Workshop, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was Technical Co-Chair of the IEEE CAMSAP 2015 Workshop, held in Cancún, Mexico, and of EUSIPCO 2015, held in Nice, France. He was General Chair of the IEEE SSP 2011 Workshop, held in Nice, France.

In France, he also served as Director of the CNRS research federation ISIS (Information, Signal, Image, Vision) from 2019 to 2023. This major national research network is dedicated to fostering and promoting research in signal and image processing. It plays a key role in supporting ongoing research efforts in France and encouraging the emergence of promising new topics. ISIS brings together more than 4,600 members from 205 academic research laboratories and is supported by 20 major companies. From 2012 to 2019, Prof. Richard was also an elected member of the French National Council of Universities in Electrical Engineering.

Prof. Richard is also a co-founder of SequoIA Analytics, a startup developing AI-based solutions for large-scale monitoring using fiber-optic sensing infrastructures, with applications notably in transportation and smart-city environments.

Prof. Richard received the 2025 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award for his outstanding leadership and contributions as General Chair and Technical Chair of signal processing conferences, and as Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing.