Emilien Valat is a Postdoctoral researcher in the department of Mathematics at KTH. He has a PhD in engineering from Southampton University and worked at Bristol and Cambridge Universities prior to his present employment.

His current interest include X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) and machine learning for forestry. In collaboration with Luleå Tekniska Universitet, he is working on the integration of machine-learning techniques in the sawmill. More specifically, he is working on interfacing the CT reconstruction of logs with post-processing techniques such as knot segmentation and individual-log grading.