IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - March 2016 - 56

women in grs
Qian Du anD Gail Skofronick-JackSon

Prof. Qian (Jenny) Du Becomes
Editor-in-Chief of J-STARS

remote sensing imagery. She was
n this issue, we are highlighting
very interested in learning how to
the career of an IEEE Geosciefficiently mine critical information
ence and Remote Sensing Society
from high-dimensional images,
(GRSS) senior woman researcher,
which is quite different from other
Prof. Qian (Jenny) Du (Figure 1),
high-dimensional data such as vidwho was appointed as the incomeos. She started to design her own
ing editor-in-chief of IEEE Journal
algorithms and published journal
of Selected Topics in Applied Earth
articles before graduation. After
Observation and Remote Sensing (Jjoining MSU, her research continSTARS) by the GRSS Administraued to expand, covering almost
tive Committee in July 2015. She
all the topics on hyperspectral reofficially started her duty on 1
mote sensing image processing and
January 2016.
analysis such as target and anomaly
Prof. Du was born and grew up
detection, change detection, superin Shanghai, China. She received
vised/unsupervised/semisupervised
her B.S. and M.S. degrees in elecclassification, spectral unmixing,
trical engineering (with a major in
endmember extraction, dimenelectromagnetics and microwave
sionality reduction, band selectechnology) from the Beijing In- Figure 1. Prof. Qian (Jenny) Du is the new
tion, multisource data/feature/
stitute of Technology in 1992 and editor-in-chief of J-STARS.
decision fusion, real-time process1995, respectively. She attended
ing, parallel computing, data compression, registration
the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC),
and mosaicking, visualization, image sharpening and
where she received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrisuper-resolution, and machine learning with artificial
cal engineering (with a major in signal and image proneural networks. She has been a very productive recessing) in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Jenny joined
searcher with approximately 100 published journal pathe Department of Electrical Engineering and Computpers thanks to multidisciplinary collaborations at MSU
er Science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in 2000
and support from federal agencies such as NASA and the
as an assistant professor. She then moved to the DepartNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MissisProf. Du is also very active in professional sociesippi State University (MSU) in 2004, where she became
ties. She served as cochair for the GRSS Data Fusion
a tenured full professor in 2013. She also received the
Technical Committee from 2009 to 2013. She actively
Bobby Shackouls Endowed Professorship in 2012 in recreviewed papers for GRSS journals and other jourognition of her scholarship.
nals and received the Best Reviewer Award from GRSS
While working with Prof. Chein-I Chang's group at
in 2010. She guest edited eight journal special issues
UMBC, Prof. Du started her research on hyperspectral
and organized several international workshops. She
has served as associate editor for J-STARS, IEEE Signal
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2016.2518811
Processing Letters, and Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. She
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