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FIGURE 15. IEEE GRSS Student Prize Paper Award recipient Yi Liu

FIGURE 17. Jun Li (left) receives the IEEE GRSS Early Career Award

(left) with GRSS President Adriano Camps.

from GRSS President Adriano Camps.

IEEE GRSS MIKIO TAKAGI STUDENT PRIZE
The IEEE GRSS Mikio Takagi Student Prize, honoring the career of Prof. Takagi, was established to recognize a student
who has presented an exceptional paper at IGARSS. The
2017 GRSS IEEE Mikio Takagi Student Prize was presented
to Homa Ansari (Figure 16) with the citation "for the paper
'Sequential Estimator: A Novel Approach for Efficient HighPrecision Analysis of Interferometric Time Series.'" Ansari's
advisor is Prof. Richard Bamler from TUM. Ansari received
her B.Sc. degree in geodesy and geodetic engineering from
the University of Isfahan, Iran, in 2011 and her M.Sc. degree
(cum laude) in ESPACE, with specialization in GNSS and
microwave remote sensing, from TUM in 2013. Since 2014,

she has been working toward her Ph.D. degree at the DLR Remote Sensing Technology Institute. Her work at the DLR has
contributed to the German Helmholtz Alliance on Remote
Sensing and Earth System Dynamics as well as studies for
the proposed Tandem-L mission. Her main research interests
are in the fields of statistical signal processing, estimation
theory, and geodetic time-series analysis with applications
in advancing differential SAR interferometry.

FIGURE 16. The Mikio Takagi Student Prize recipient Homa Ansari

(left) with GRSS President Adriano Camps.
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IEEE GRSS EARLY CAREER AWARD
The IEEE GRSS Early Career Award aims to promote, recognize, and support young scientists and engineers within the
GRSS who have demonstrated outstanding ability and the
promise for significant future contributions. Factors considered for nomination include quality, the significance and
impact of contributions, papers published in archival journals, papers presented at conferences and symposia, patents,
a demonstration of leadership, and advancement of the profession. The candidate must have been a GRSS member for at
least five years and be younger than 35 at the time of nomination. He or she must be making outstanding contributions
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 IEEE GRSS 2017 Early Career Award was presented
to Jun Li (Figure 17) with the citation "in recognition of
outstanding contributions in innovative hyperspectral
and SAR image processing algorithms for remote sensing."
Li received her Ph.D. in 2011 from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and was a Marie Curie fellow for
four years. Since 2011, she has been with the Sun Yat-sen
University in China, where she is currently a professor in
the School of Geography and Planning. She has published
50 refereed and 40 conference papers and one book chapter, and a number of her papers have been w
- idely cited.
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