His research interests include medical imaging and more particularly inverse problems (deconvolution, super-resolution, compressive sampling, beamforming, image registration and fusion) applied to ultrasound image formation, ultrasound elastography, cardiac ultrasound, quantitative acoustic microscopy, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Adrian Basarab has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member in 2019. He was an associate editor for Digital Signal Processing from 2015 to 2020, and a member of the French National Council of Universities Section 61 - Computer sciences, Automatic Control and Signal Processing from 2010 to 2015. In 2017, he was guest co-editor for the IEEE TUFFC special issue on "Sparsity driven methods in medical ultrasound". Adrian Basarab was the head of "Computational Imaging and Vision" group of IRIT laboratory from 2018 to 2020. Since 2019, he has been a member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee Biomedical Image & Signal Analytics. He is member of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium TPC since 2020, and subject editor of the journal Signal Processing (Elsevier) from January 2024.