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The second prize was presented to Joakim Strandberg
(Figure 19) with the citation "for the paper 'Inverse Modeling of GNSS Multipath for Sea Level Measurements-Initial
Results.'" His advisor is Rüdiger Haas at Chalmers University of Technology.
Joakim Strandberg received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from Chalmers University of Technology,
Sweden, in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He is currently
enrolled as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth
and Space Sciences at Chalmers where he focuses on using signals from navigation satellites to measure sea level,
soil moisture, snow height, and other geophysical parameters. His research interests include global navigation satellite systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and electromagnetic modeling. He is a member of the IAG Joint Working
Group 4.3.9 GNSS-R and contributes to several other study
groups and projects on a national and international level.
IEEE MIkIo takaGI StudEnt PRIzE
The IEEE Mikio Takagi Student Prize was established to recognize a student who has presented an exceptional paper at the
IGARSS. The 2016 IEEE Mikio Takagi Student Prize was presented to Ying Qu (Figure 20) with the citation "for the paper 'Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Images Through
Spectral Unmixing and Low Rank Decomposition.'" Her
advisor is Hairong Qi at the University of Tennessee.
Ying Qu received the B.S. degree in automatics and M.S.
degree in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence
from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2008
and 2010, respectively. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D.
degree at the Advanced Imaging and Collaborative Information Processing Lab under the supervision of Prof.
Hairong Qi at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She
is a teaching and research assistant in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her current
research interests are image processing, machine learning,
and remote sensing. She received the JianLong scholarship

FiGUre 19. The Student Prize Paper Award recipient Joakim
Strandberg (right) with GRSS President Kamal Sarabandi.
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in 2009 and was awarded the Excellent Graduate Student of
Liaoning Province (China) in 2010.
ieee GrSS early Career aWarD
The GRSS Early Career Award is to promote, recognize,
and support young scientists and engineers within the
GRSS that have demonstrated
an outstanding ability and
promise for significant conTHe GrSS early Career
tributions in the future. The
aWarD iS To ProMoTe,
selection factors include qualreCoGnize, anD SUPPorT
ity, significance and impact
yoUnG SCienTiSTS anD
of contributions, articles pubenGineerS WiTHin THe
lished in archival journals, papers presented at conferences
GrSS THaT HaVe DeMonand symposia, patents, demonSTraTeD an oUTSTanDinG
stration of leadership, and adabiliTy anD ProMiSe For
vancement of profession. The
SiGniFiCanT ConTribUcandidate must be a memTionS in THe FUTUre.
ber of IEEE GRSS for at least
five years and be less than
35 years old at the time of
nomination and making outstanding contributionsv in one
or more GRSS field(s) of interest. Previous award winners are
ineligible. The award consists of a certificate and an honorarium of US$1,500.
The 2016 Early Career Award was presented to Xiao
Xiang Zhu (Figure 21) with the citation "in recognition of
outstanding contributions in innovative signal processing
algorithms for remote sensing." See the section "IGARSS
Prize Paper Award" for her curriculum vitae.
ieee GrSS CHaPTer exCellenCe aWarD
The GRSS established the Chapter Excellence Award to
recognize excellence in a GRSS or Joint Local Chapter
demonstrated by exemplary local GRSS activities during
the previous year. The award is considered annually and

FiGUre 20. The Mikio Takagi Student Prize recipient Ying Qu
(right) with GRSS President Kamal Sarabandi.

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