Farid Melgani

Farid Melgani received the State Engineer degree in electronics from the University of Batna, Algeria, in 1994, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2003.

From 1999 to 2002, he cooperated with the Signal Processing and Telecommunications Group, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa. Since 2002, he has been an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor of telecommunications at the University of Trento, Italy, where he teaches (taught) pattern recognition, advanced pattern recognition, machine learning, radar remote-sensing systems, remote sensing for archaeology, digital transmission, and digital signal processing. From 2007 to 2010, he was the head of the Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento. Since 2011, he is the head of the Signal Processing and Recognition Laboratory in the same department. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Graduate School in Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Trento, and the responsible of the double degree and internationalization programs for the M.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the same university.

His research interests are in the fields of processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and computer vision techniques applied to remote sensing, biomedical signals/images and assistive technologies. His most significant contributions are in the areas of: 1) multisource data fusion; 2) contextual and semi-supervised classification; 3) unsupervised and supervised change detection; 4) classification of hyperspectral imagery; 5) estimation of biophysical parameters; and 6) reconstruction of missing data. Part of his researches was carried out within research projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Italian Ministry of the Education, Research and University (MIUR), and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE).

He is coauthor of about 140 scientific publications, including more than 60 journal publications. He has more than 2500 citations on Google Scholar, an H-Index=23 and about 180 cites/year. He is a referee for more than 30 international journals. He was a project evaluator for the Belgian Science Policy Office (2006, 2009), for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, (2007), for the Swiss National Science Foundation (2011), and for The Icelandic Research Fund (2012). He has served on the Scientific Committee and/or as Session Chair for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), the SPIE Conference on Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing, the IEEE International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote-Sensing Images, the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), and the IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications. He has supervised the thesis activity of 10 PhD, 23 Master and 55 Bachelor students.

He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, the International Journal of Navigation and Observation, Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, and American Journal of Signal Processing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Society. He is a member of the Italian National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT).

• Session Chair on “Information Processing”, The 11^th International Conference on Information Science, Signal processing and their Applications – ISSPA 2012 (Montreal, Canada, July 3, 2012).
• Session Chair on “Student Session: Image Processing”, The 11th International Conference on Information Science, Signal processing and their Applications – ISSPA 2012 (Montreal, Canada, July 3, 2012).
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2012 Meeting of the Associazione Gruppo Nazionale Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell’Informazione – GTTI 2012, Cagliari and Villasimius, Italy, June 25-27, 2012.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the 7th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing – PRRS 2012 (Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November 11, 2012).
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the 6th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing – PRRS 2010 (Istanbul, Turkey, August 22, 2010).
• Session Chair on “Ship Detection with Radar and SAR”, IEEE 2010 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS10 (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 30, 2010).
• Session Chair on “Hyperspectral Data Classification”, IEEE 2010 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS10 (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 29, 2010).
• Session Chair on “Target and Object Detection”, IEEE 2009 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS09 (Cape Town, South Africa, July 14, 2009).
• Session Chair on “Classification and Data Mining”, IEEE 2009 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS09 (Cape Town, South Africa, July 15, 2009).
• Session Chair on “Medical Imaging”, IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications – SPPRA 2009 (Innsbruck, Austria, February 17, 2009).
• Session Co-Chair on “Change Detection and Image Analysis”, IEEE 2007 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS07 (Barcelona, Spain, July 25, 2007).
• Session Chair on “Change Detection and Multitemporal Analysis”, IEEE 2006 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS06 (Denver, USA, July 31, 2006).
• Session Chair on “Image Classification 1”, IEEE 2006 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS06 (Denver, USA, August 04, 2006).
• Interactive Session Evaluator, IEEE 2006 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS06 (Denver, USA, August 03, 2006).
• Session Co-Chair on “Image Enhancement”, IEEE 2005 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS05 (Seoul, Korea, July 28, 2005).
• Interactive Session Evaluator, IEEE 2005 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS05 (Seoul, Korea, July 26, 2005).
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE 2005 International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP2005 (Genoa, Italy, September 11-14, 2005).
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the SPIE International Conferences on Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing VI (Barcelona, Spain, 2000), VII (Toulouse, France, 2001), VIII (Crete, Greece, 2002), IX (Barcelona, Spain, 2003), and X (Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 2004).
• Session Chair on “Geometric and Atmospheric Corrections”, SPIE Conference on Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing IX, Barcelona, Spain, September 10, 2003.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the IEEE International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote-Sensing Images (MultiTemp-2003) (Ispra, Italy, 2003).
• Session Chair on “Hyperspectral Image Coding”, SPIE Conference on Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing VIII, Crete, Greece, September 26, 2002.
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS01 (Sydney, Australia, 2001).

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