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Images Parole Signal Automatique Lab, Grenoble Institute
of Technology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. He is an editorial
board member of Remote Sensing and a topical associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
(TGRS). He was a recipient of the Best Reviewer Award of
TGRS in 2021 and Jose Bioucas Dias award recognizing the
outstanding paper at the Workshop on Hyperspectral Imaging
and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing in
2021. He is also a leading guest editor of the International
Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations, and
Remote Sensing. His research interests include signal/image
processing and analysis, hyperspectral remote sensing, machine/deep
learning, artificial intelligence, and their applications
in Earth vision. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Ran Tao (rantao@bit.edu.cn) received his B.S. degree
from the Electronic Engineering Institute of the People's
Liberation Army, Hefei, China, in 1985, and his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology,
China, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 2001, he was a
senior visiting scholar with the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor. He is currently a professor with the School of
Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology,
Beijing, 100081, China. He has authored three books
and more than 180 peer-reviewed journal articles. He was
the recipient of the National Science Foundation of China
Award for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2006 as well as
the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress in 2006
and 2007 and First Prize of Natural Science in 2013, both
awarded by the Ministry of Education. He was a distinguished
professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program in
2009. He was a chief professor of the Program for Changjiang
Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University
from 2010 to 2012. He has been a chief professor of the
Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science
Foundation of China since 2014. He was awarded the Famous
Teachers of Higher Education in Beijing in 2018. He is
currently the vice chair of the International Union of Radio
Science China Council. His research interests include fractional
signal and information processing with applications.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Qian Du (du@ece.msstate.edu) received her Ph.D. degree
in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland
at Baltimore County in 2000. She is currently the Bobby
Shackouls Professor with the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University,
Starkville, Mississippi, 39762, USA. She is a fellow of the International
Society for Optics and Photonics. She received
the 2010 Best Reviewer Award from the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society. She was the cochair of the
Data Fusion Technical Committee of the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society from 2009 to 2013 and chair
of the Remote Sensing and Mapping Technical Committee
of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
from 2010 to 2014. She has served as an associate editor of
MARCH 2022 IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING MAGAZINE
the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations
and Remote Sensing, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing,
and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. She was the editor-in-chief
of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations
and Remote Sensing from 2016 to 2020. Her research interests
include hyperspectral remote sensing image analysis
and applications, pattern classification, data compression,
and neural networks. She is a Fellow of IEEE.
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