Antonio Plaza - Biography#

Antonio Plaza is a Full Professor and Head of the Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, University of Extremadura, Spain. His main research interests comprise hyperspectral data processing and parallel computing of remote sensing data. He has authored more than 600 publications, including 281 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. He is a recipient of the recognition of Best Reviewers of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (in 2009) and the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (in 2010), for which he served as Associate Editor in 2007-2012. He is 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 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 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).