Jon Atli Benediktsson - Curriculum Vitae#
Occupation: Rector/President, University of Iceland
Degrees:
- Cand. Scient, Electrical Engineering, University of Iceland, June 1984
- M.S.E.E. from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, May 1987
- M.S.E.E. thesis: Methods for Multisource Data Analysis in Remote Sensing
- Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, December 1990
- Ph.D. thesis: Statistical Methods and Neural Network Approaches for Classification of Data from Multiple Sources
Committees and Boards (examples):
- Chairman, IEEE GRSS Fellow Evaluation Committee
- Member, IEEE GRSS Fellow Evaluation Committee, 2017 - 2019
- Member, IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee, 2014 - 2015
- Member, Icelandic Science and Technology Council 2003 - 2006, 2011 - present
- 2011 - 2012 President, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- Executive Vice President, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2010
- Chairman of Steering Committee, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations, 2008 – present
Graduated PhD students:
1. Mathieu Fauvel
2. Yuliya Tarabalka
3. Guilia Troglio
4. Mauro Dalla Mura
5. Alberto Villa
6. Sergio Bernabe Garcia
7. Nicola Falco
8. Pedram Ghamisi
9. Gabriele Cavallaro
Editorial and Review Work (examples)
(1) On the Edtiorial Board of Proceedings of the IEEE, 2014-
(2) Guest Editor of special issue on ,,Analysis of Remote Sensing Image Data," Remote Sensing, 2014
(3) Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of IEEE, 2014-.
(4) Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 2013.
(5) Evaluator, Italian Evaluation of Research Quality exercise (VQR 2004-2010)
(6) Special Issue Guest Editor, Proceedings of IEEE, Special issue on Very High Resolution Remote Sensing, vol. 101, no. 3, March 2013.
(7) Chairman of Steering Committee, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, 2007-2010.
(8) International Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 2009-
(9) Editor, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, from Jan. 1, 2003 – Dec. 31. 2008.
