Antonio Plaza#
| Membership Number: | 5298 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://sites.google.com/view/antonioplaza |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9613-1659 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Full Professor, University of Extremadura
- 2017 - 2019 ChangJiang Scholar Visiting Professor (Part Time), Hunan University, Changsha, China
- 2001 - 2018 Associate professor, University of Extremadura
- 2018,03 - 2018,06 Visiting Professor, Sun Yat-Sent University, Guangzhou, China
- 2017,03 - 2017,06 Visiting Professor, Sun Yat-Sent University, Guangzhou, China
- 2013,03 - 2013,06 Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2013,09 - 2013,12 Visiting Researcher, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France
- 2005 Visiting Researcher, Remote Sensing, Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL), Univ. Maryland, Baltimore County
- 2004 Visiting Researcher, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
- 1999 - 2000 Assistant Professor, University of Extremadura
Fields of Scholarship
- Heterogeneous networks of computers and clouds
- Remotely sensed hyperspectral image analysis
- Efficient implementations of large-scale scientific problems on high performance computing architectures
- Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)
- Commodity Beowulf clusters
- Signal and image processing
- Graphical processing units (GPUs)
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Chair of the Publications Awards Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Society
- 2019 Vice-Chair of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- 2019 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics) in the "Geosciences" category
- 2019 Excellent Teaching Award, University of Extremadura
- 2011 - 2019 Elected Member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- 2018 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics) in the "Cross-Field" category
- 2018 Chair of the Ad-Hoc Plagiarism Committee, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- 2018 Chair of the History Committee, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- 2018 Chair of the Senior and Fellow Member Search Committee, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- 2018 General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2018), Xi'an, China, September 2018
- 2013 - 2017 Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal
- 2017 Outstanding Associate Editor Award, IEEE Access journal
- 2012 - 2016 President, Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- 2015 IEEE Fellow "for contributions to hyperspectral data processing and parallel computing of Earth observation data"
- 2011 - 2012 Director of Education, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- 2010 Best Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal
- 2010 Top cited article award (in 2005-2010) of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
- 2007 Senior Member, IEEE
- 2009 Best Reviewer, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters journal
- 2002 Best PhD Dissertation Award, University of Extremadura
