He has (co-)authored 200 peer-reviewed journal papers (90 IEEE journal papers), 350 international conference papers (150 IEEE conferences). He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2007), he received the 1994 K.U.Leuven Research Council Award, the 1997 Alcatel Bell Award (with Piet Vandaele), the 2004 Alcatel Bell Award (with Raphael Cendrillon), and was a 1997 Laureate of the Belgium Royal Academy of Science. He received a journal best paper award from the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (with Geert Leus) and from Elsevier Signal Processing (with Simon Doclo).

He has served as Editor-in-Chief for the “EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing” (2003-2005), and has been a member of the editorial board of 6 other journals. He was chairman of the IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter (1998-2002), and is currently President of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing, 2007-2008 and (2nd term) 2011-2012).