Xiaoxiang Zhu#
| Membership Number: | 6751 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.asg.ed.tum.de/sipeo/home/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5530-3613 |
| Twitter: | @xiaoxiang_zhu |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaoxiang-zhu-90b473228/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020.06 - present Board of Directors, Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), TUM
- 2020.05 - present PI and Director, International AI Future Lab – AI4EO
- 2015.07 - present Professor (W3 since 2019) for Data Science in Earth Observation, TUM
- 2019.04 - 2022.08 Spokeswoman, Helmholtz AI – Research Field “Aeronautics, Space and Transport” (MASTr)
- 2019.01 - 2022.08 Co-spokeswoman, Munich Data Science Research School (MUDS)
- 2018.04 - 2022.08 Founding Head of Department, EO Data Science, Remote Sensing Technology (IMF), German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- 2013.09 - 2019.12 Head of the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group “SiPEO”,
- Remote Sensing Technology (IMF), German Aerospace Center (DLR) & TUM
- 2013.05 - 2018.03 Head of Team "Signal Analysis", Department of SAR Signal Processing, DLR-IMF
- 2013.12 - 2015.06 Adjunct Teaching Professor (Privatdozent), TUM
- 2013.09 - 2015.06 TUM Junior Fellow ("With the right to act as a first PhD supervisor like a professor, German: "Promotionsrecht")
- 2011.05 - 2013.04 Scientist, DLR-IMF
- 2011 - 2016: Munich Aerospace PI & Research Group Leader "SparsEO"
- 2010 - 2015: Project Team Leader of the IGSSE Project "4D City"
- 2008.08 - 2011.05 Research Associate, Chair of Remote Sensing Technology (LMF), TUM
Fields of Scholarship
- Synthetic aperture radar
- Remote sensing
- Global urban mapping
- Data science
- Machine learning
- Earth observation
- Signal processing
Honours and Awards
- 2022, 2020 ERC Proof of Concept Grants
- 2021 IEEE Fellow
- 2020 Geodesy Award of the Nico Rüpke Foundation
- 2019 ELLIS Fellow
- 2018 TUM Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal
- 2018 Leopoldina Early Career Award
- 2018 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
- 2018 Helmholtz W3 Excellent Professorship Grant
- 2016 ERC Starting Grant
- 2016 DLR Science Award
- 2016 IEEE GRSS Early Career Award
- 2016 Member, Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences /Junge Akademie
- 2015 Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Junges Kolleg
- 2015 Helene-Lange-Preis, EWE Fundation & University of Oldenburg
- 2015 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2015 Technology Review Germany “Best Innovators Under 35” Award
- 2011 Dimitri N. Chorofas Foundation Research Award
