Prof.
Antonio Plaza (M’02-SM’05-F’15) is a Full Professor and the Head of the
Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory at the Department of Technology of Computers
and Communications, University of Extremadura, where he received the M.Sc.
degree in 1999 and the PhD degree in 2002, both in Computer Engineering. His
main research interests comprise hyperspectral data processing and parallel
computing of remote sensing data. He has authored more than 600 publications,
including 265 JCR journal papers (more than 170 in IEEE journals), 24 book
chapters, and over 300 peer-reviewed conference proceeding papers. He has guest
edited 10 special issues on hyperspectral remote sensing for different
journals. Prof. Plaza is a Fellow of IEEE “for contributions to hyperspectral
data processing and parallel computing of Earth observation data.” He is a
recipient of the recognition of Best Reviewers of the IEEE Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Letters (in 2009) and a recipient of the recognition of Best
Reviewers of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (in 2010),
for which he served as Associate Editor in 2007-2012. He is also an Associate
Editor for IEEE Access, and was a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Newsletter (2011-2012) and the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Magazine (2013). He was also a member of the steering
committee of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations
and Remote Sensing (JSTARS). He is a recipient of the Best Column Award of the
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 2015, the 2013 Best Paper Award of the JSTARS
journal, and the most highly cited paper (2005-2010) in the Journal of Parallel
and Distributed Computing. He received best paper awards at the IEEE
International Conference on Space Technology and the IEEE Symposium on Signal
Processing and Information Technology. He served as the Director of Education
Activities for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in
2011-2012, and as President of the Spanish Chapter of IEEE GRSS in 2012-2016. He
has reviewed more than 500 manuscripts for over 50 different journals. He served
as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing journal for five years (2013-2017). He is included in the 2018 and 2019
Highly Cited Researchers List (Clarivate Analytics). Additional information: http://www.umbc.edu/rssipl/people/aplaza.
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