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Cédric Duchêne

cedric.duchene@epfl.ch https://epfl-ecal-lab.ch/about/people/cedric-duchene/

EPFL EPFL+ECAL Lab
ECAL 1 20.07 (Bâtiment ECAL)
Av. du 24-Janvier 11
1020 Renens VD 1

Expertise

Electronic , Sound Design, Audio and
Signal Processing
Dr. Cédric Duchêne is currently Head of Electronics & Systems Engineering at the EPFL ECAL Lab. He also lectures at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, where he teaches BA and MA courses on practical electronics, rapid prototyping, and microcontroller programming, while supervising students' final projects. He has established the Electronic Maker Lab, an experimental platform dedicated to teaching and learning electronics at EPFL/Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
A strong program and project management professional, Dr. Duchêne is skilled in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Audio & Signal Processing, and Research and Development (R&D). Over time, he also developed expertise as a Sound Designer, driven by his passion for sound and audio-related projects, as well as his experience as a musician and natural curiosity.

Education

PhD Thesis

| Signal Processing

2007 – 2007 Grenoble Institute of Technology
Directed by Pierre-Olivier Amblard, GIPSA-LAB : grenoble Images Signal Parole et Automatique CNRS - UMR 5216 9

M.S degree

| Image and Signal Processing

2003 – 2003 University of Cergy-Pontoise

M.S degree

| Electrical Engineering

2002 – 2002 University of Reims (Professional University Institute)

Infoscience

Adapting Haptic Feedback for Guided Meditation

Y. P. Douillet; R. S. Collaud; E. C. Groves; A. Sonderegger; C. Duchêne  et al.

2023-10-04. 3rd International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET 2023), Barcelone, October 5-6, 2023.

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Ming Shan Digital Experience

N. Henchoz; M. Charvolin; D. Ribes; L. Défayes; C. Duchêne  et al.

2021-08-09. SIGGRAPH '21, Virtual, August 9-13, 2021. p. 1-10. DOI : 10.1145/3465620.

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Ammonia-assisted vapour transport deposition of formamidinium salts for perovskite thin films

F. Sahli; Q. J.-M. A. Guesnay; N. Salsi; L. Duchêne; C. Ballif  et al.

2021

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A highly elastic polysiloxane-based polymer electrolyte for all-solid-state lithium metal batteries

C. Fu; M. Iacob; Y. Sheima; C. Battaglia; L. Duchene  et al.

Journal Of Materials Chemistry A. 2021-04-29. DOI : 10.1039/d1ta02689e.

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Vapor Transport Deposition of Methylammonium Iodide for Perovskite Solar Cells

F. Sahli; N. Miaz; N. Salsi; C. Bucher; A. Schafflützel  et al.

ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2021. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.0c02999.

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Ultrafast hot-hole injection modifies hot-electron dynamics in Au/p-GaN heterostructures

G. Tagliabue; J. S. DuChene; M. Abdellah; A. Habib; D. J. Gosztola  et al.

Nature Materials. 2020-07-27. DOI : 10.1038/s41563-020-0737-1.

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Hot-Hole versus Hot-Electron Transport at Cu/GaN Heterojunction Interfaces

G. Tagliabue; J. S. DuChene; A. Habib; R. Sundararaman; H. A. Atwater

Acs Nano. 2020-05-26. DOI : 10.1021/acsnano.0c00713.

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Optical Excitation of a Nanoparticle Cu/p-NiO Photocathode Improves Reaction Selectivity for CO2 Reduction in Aqueous Electrolytes

J. S. DuChene; G. Tagliabue; A. J. Welch; X. Li; W.-h. Cheng  et al.

Nano Letters. 2020-03-05. DOI : 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04895.

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4 V room-temperature all-solid-state sodium battery enabled by a passivating cathode/hydroborate solid electrolyte interface

R. Asakura; D. Reber; L. Duchene; S. Payandeh; A. Remhof  et al.

Energy & Environmental Science. 2020-12-01. DOI : 10.1039/d0ee01569e.

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I-2 vapor-induced degradation of formamidinium lead iodide based perovskite solar cells under heat-light soaking conditions

F. Fu; S. Pisoni; Q. Jeangros; J. Sastre-Pellicer; M. Kawecki  et al.

Energy & Environmental Science. 2019-10-01. DOI : 10.1039/c9ee02043h.

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Nanoporous Gold as a Highly Selective and Active Carbon Dioxide Reduction Catalyst

A. J. Welch; J. S. DuChene; G. Tagliabue; A. Davoyan; W.-H. Cheng  et al.

ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2019. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.8b01570.

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Physical vapour deposition of cyanine salts and their first application in organic electronic devices

D. Gesevicius; A. Neels; L. Duchene; E. Hack; J. Heier  et al.

Journal Of Materials Chemistry C. 2019-01-14. DOI : 10.1039/c8tc05286g.

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Ultrafast Studies of Hot-Hole Dynamics in Au/p-GaN Heterostructures

G. Tagliabue; J. S. DuChene; M. Abdellah; A. Habib; Y. Hattori  et al.

ArXiv. 2018.

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Hot Hole Collection and Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction with Plasmonic Au/p-GaN Photocathodes

J. S. DuChene; G. Tagliabue; A. J. Welch; W.-H. Cheng; H. A. Atwater

Nano Letters. 2018. DOI : 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00241.

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Quantifying the role of surface plasmon excitation and hot carrier transport in plasmonic devices

G. Tagliabue; A. S. Jermyn; R. Sundararaman; A. J. Welch; J. S. DuChene  et al.

Nature Communications. 2018. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-018-05968-x.

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Regulation of monocyte cell fate by blood vessels mediated by Notch signalling

J. Gamrekelashvili; R. Giagnorio; J. Jussofie; O. Soehnlein; J. Duchene  et al.

Nature Communications. 2016-08-31. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms12597.

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Quantum dots in the GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs core-shell nanowires: Statistical occurrence as a function of the shell thickness

L. Francaviglia; Y. Fontana; S. Conesa-Boj; G. Tuetuencueoglu; L. Duchene  et al.

Applied Physics Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4927315.

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La longue distance au quotidien. Éléments de réflexion sur de possibles inégalités de mobilité

E. Ravalet; S. Vincent; V. Kaufmann

Les mobilités résidentielles à l'aune de la multilocalité; Strasbourg: Néothèque Editions, 2014.

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"Risques territorialisés" ou "territorialité du risque"? Réflexion géographique autour de la relation risque-territoire

V. November

Risques et territoires: Interroger et comprendre la dimension locale de quelques risques contemporains; Paris: Lavoisier, 2010. p. 275-286.

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Adaptive tracking of EEG oscillations

J. Van Zaen; L. Uldry; C. Duchêne; Y. Prudat; R. A. Meuli  et al.

Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.10.018.

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Adaptive Multiple Frequency Tracking Algorithm used to Detect Stable Atrial Fibrillation Sources from standard 12-lead ECG

C. Duchêne; M. Lemay; J.-M. Vesin

2009. ESC Congress 2009 ESC Congress 2009, Barcelona, Spain, 9 Aug 2009 - 02 Sep 2009.

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Activity Level of an Atrial Ectopic Focus Observed Through the Equivalent Dipole: a Biophysical Model

M. Lemay; V. Jacquemet; C. Duchene; A. van Oosterom; J.-M. Vesin

2009. Computers in Cardiology 2009, Park City, Utah, September 13-16, 2009. p. 221-224.

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Adaptive Multiple Frequency Tracking Algorithm: Detection of Stable Atrial Fibrillation Sources from Standard 12-Lead ECG

C. Duchêne; M. Lemay; V. Jacquemet; J.-M. Vesin; A. van Oosterom

2009. Computers in Cardiology 2009, Park City, Utah, September 13-16, 2009. p. 505-508.

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The Role of Atrial Modeling in the Development of ECG Processing Tools

V. Jacquemet; M. Lemay; L. Uldry; C. Duchêne; A. van Oosterom  et al.

2009. Wolrd Congress 2009 - Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, September 7-12, 2009. p. 429–432. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-03882-2_114.

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Adaptive tracking of EEG components

L. Uldry; C. Duchene; Y. Prudat; M. M. Murray; j.-M. Vesin

Advanced Biosignal Processing; Springer, 2009. p. 123-144.

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Estimation of Atrial Multiple Reentry Circuits from Surface ECG Signals based on a Vectorcardiogram Approach

C. Duchêne; M. Lemay; J.-M. Vesin; A. van Oosterom

2009. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH'09) - 5th International Conference, FIMH 2009 Nice, France, June 3-5, 2009 Proceedings, Nice, France, 2009. p. 277-284. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-01932-6_30.

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Does eye tremor provide the hyperacuity phenomenon?

S. Zozor; P.-O. Amblard; C. Duchêne

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2009. DOI : 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/01/P01015.

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Influence des fluctuations sur l'échantillonnage et la quantification dans le système visuel (2008)

C. Duchêne / P.-O. Amblard; S. Zozor (Dir.)

Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, 2008.

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Gastro Intestinal Motility Research and Equipment - Inductive Tracking System

C. Duchêne; J.-M. Vesin; V. Schlageter; M. Demierre; G. Menth  et al.

CTI Medtech Event 2008, Berne, Suisse, September 2, 2008.

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Adaptive tracking of multiple EEG oscillations in single-trial data

L. Uldry; C. Duchêne; Y. Prudat; R. Meuli; J.-M. Vesin  et al.

2008. International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Bodrum, September 2008.

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On pooling networks and fluctuation in suboptimal detection framework

S. Zozor; P.-O. Amblard; C. Duchêne

Fluctuation and Noise Letters. 2007. DOI : 10.1142/S0219477507003684.

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On the micro-saccades in the retina as a noise-enhanced processing

S. Zozor; P.-O. Amblard; C. Duchêne

2007. International Conference on Physics in Signal and Image Processing (PSIP'07), Mulhouse, France, 2007.

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Fluctuation in the retina: noise-enhanced processing via random sampling and microsaccads?

S. Zozor; P.-O. Amblard; C. Duchêne

2007. International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise (FN'07), Florence, Italie, 2007.

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Détection sous optimale en contexte alpha-stable : performances et algorithmes

S. Zozor; J.-M. Brossier; P.-O. Amblard; C. Duchêne

2005. Colloque GRETSI, Louvain la Neuve, Belgique, 2005.

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Détection sous optimale et quantifieurs stochastiques

C. Duchêne; S. Zozor; P.-O. Amblard

2005. Colloque GRETSI, Louvain la Neuve, Belgique, 2005.

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On a suboptimal detector in alpha-stable context

A. Voicila; C. Duchêne; S. Zozor; J.-M. Brossier; P.-O. Amblard

2005. International Conference on Physics in Signal and Image Processing (PSIP'05), Toulouse, France, 2005.

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Noise-aided suboptimal quantizer-decision systems

C. Duchêne; S. Zozor; P.-O. Amblard

2005. International Conference on Physics in Signal and Image Processing (PSIP'05), Toulouse, France, 2005.

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About suboptimal detection in alpha-stable noise

S. Zozor; J.-M. Brossier; P.-O. Amblard; C. Duchêne; A. Voicila

2005. SPIE Third International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, Austin, Texas, 24-26 May 2005. DOI : 10.1117/12.609395.

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Quantizer-based suboptimal detectors: noise-enhanced performance and robustness

C. Duchêne; P.-O. Amblard; S. Zozor

2005. SPIE, International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise (FN'05), Austin, Texas, 2005. DOI : 10.1117/12.609355.

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Architecture and design methodologies of CMOS and BICMOS semi-custom arrays

P. Duchene / M. Declercq (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 1991. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-962.

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A user-centered design approach for crafting personalized guided meditation

R. Collaud; Y. P. Douillet; E. C. Groves; A. Sonderegger; C. Duchêne  et al.

Entertainment Computing. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100949.

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Adapting Haptic Feedback for Guided Meditation

Y. P. Douillet; R. S. Collaud; E. C. Groves; A. Sonderegger; C. Duchêne  et al.

2023. 3rd International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET 2023), Barcelone, October 5-6, 2023.

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Ming Shan Digital Experience

N. Henchoz; M. Charvolin; D. Ribes; L. Défayes; C. Duchêne  et al.

2021. SIGGRAPH '21, Virtual, August 9-13, 2021. p. 1 - 10. DOI : 10.1145/3465620.

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Adaptive tracking of EEG oscillations

J. Van Zaen; L. Uldry; C. Duchêne; Y. Prudat; R. A. Meuli  et al.

Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.10.018.

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The Role of Atrial Modeling in the Development of ECG Processing Tools

V. Jacquemet; M. Lemay; L. Uldry; C. Duchêne; A. van Oosterom  et al.

2009. Wolrd Congress 2009 - Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, September 7-12, 2009. p. 429 - 432. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-03882-2_114.

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Adaptive Multiple Frequency Tracking Algorithm: Detection of Stable Atrial Fibrillation Sources from Standard 12-Lead ECG

C. Duchêne; M. Lemay; V. Jacquemet; J.-M. Vesin; A. van Oosterom

2009. Computers in Cardiology 2009, Park City, Utah, September 13-16, 2009. p. 505 - 508.

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Estimation of Atrial Multiple Reentry Circuits from Surface ECG Signals based on a Vectorcardiogram Approach

C. Duchêne; M. Lemay; J.-M. Vesin; A. van Oosterom

2009. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH'09) - 5th International Conference, FIMH 2009 Nice, France, June 3-5, 2009 Proceedings, Nice, France, 2009. p. 277 - 284. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-01932-6_30.

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Does eye tremor provide the hyperacuity phenomenon?

S. Zozor; P.-O. Amblard; C. Duchêne

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2009. DOI : 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/01/P01015.

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Adaptive Multiple Frequency Tracking Algorithm used to Detect Stable Atrial Fibrillation Sources from standard 12-lead ECG

C. Duchêne; M. Lemay; J.-M. Vesin

2009. ESC Congress 2009 ESC Congress 2009, Barcelona, Spain, 9 Aug 2009 - 02 Sep 2009.

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Adaptive tracking of EEG components

L. Uldry; C. Duchene; Y. Prudat; M. M. Murray; j.-M. Vesin

Advanced Biosignal Processing; Springer, 2009. p. 123 - 144.

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