Bio and research interests. Antonio J. Plaza was born in Caceres, SPAIN, in 1975. He received the Computer Engineer degree in 1997, the M.Sc. degree in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in 2002, all in Computer Engineering. He was awarded the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation award at University of Extremadura in 2002. Dr. Plaza is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, University of Extremadura, Spain. He has authored or co-authored more than 180 scientific publications including journal papers, book chapters and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. His main research interests comprise hyperspectral image analysis, signal processing, and efficient implementations of large-scale scientific problems on high performance computing architectures, including commodity Beowulf clusters, heterogeneous networks of computers and grids, and specialized computer architectures such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or graphical processing units (GPUs).
	Visiting researcher/professor positions. Dr. Plaza has been visiting researcher/professor at several institutions, including the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland; the Remote Sensing, Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL) at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; the Microsystems Laboratory at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP); and the AVIRIS group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
	Editorial activities. Dr. Plaza is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal (since March 2007) in the areas of Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Signal Processing. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (since February 2009). He has edited a book on High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing for CRC Press/Taylor and Francis and guest edited several special issues for different journals, including a special issue on High Performance Compting for Hyperspectral Imaging for the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (html), and a special issue on Architectures and Techniques for Real-Time Processing of Remotely Sensed Images for the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (html). He is also Guest Editor of the following open special issues: A. Plaza, Q. Du, J. Bioucas-Dias, X. Jia and F. A. Kruse, Guest Editors. Special Issue on Spectral Unmixing of Remotely Sensed Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Submission deadline: September 30, 2010. Call for papers (pdf). A. Plaza, Q. Du, Y.-L. Chang and R. L. King, Guest Editors. Special Issue on High Performance Computing in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. Submission deadline: April 30, 2010. Call for papers (pdf).
	International research projects. Dr. Plaza is the project coordinator of the Hyperspectral Imaging Network (Hyper-I-Net), a four-year Marie Curie Research Training Network (budget: 2.800.000 Euro, duration from 2007 to 2011) designed to build an interdisciplinary European research community focused on hyperspectral imaging activities. He is also a member of the Management Committee and coordinator of a working group on Applications of Hierarchical-Heterogeneous Systems in the Open European Network for High Performance Computing on Complex Environments, funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) programme (duration from 2009 to 2013).
	Involvement in technical societies. Dr. Plaza is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society (CS), the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), and the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He is affiliated to several Technical Committees of IEEE CS, including those on parallel processing (TCPP), computer architecture (TCCA), distributed processing (TCDP), and scalable computing (TCSC), and is also affiliated to the Technical Committee on Data Fusion (TCDF) of IEEE GRSS.
	Service and distinctions in international conferences and symposia. Dr. Plaza is a chair of the SPIE Conference on Satellite Data Compression, Communication and Processing, part of the SPIE International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Applications, San Diego, California. He is a recipient of the 2008 best paper award at the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, for a contribution on Morphological Feature Extraction and Spectral Unmixing of Hyperspectral Images (co-authored by J. Plaza and A. Cristo). He was the general chair of the First Hyper-I-Net School on Hyperspectral Imaging held in Cáceres, Spain, in October 2007, and co-organizer of the Second Hyper-I-Net School on Earth Science and Applications using Imaging Spectroscopy held in Wageningen, The Netherlands, in September 2008, and the Third Hyper-I-Net Summer School on Hyperspectral Data: From Images to Processing held in Pavia, Italy, in September 2009. He was the chair of a special invited session on Hyperspectral Imaging Training at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 2007. He chaired (with Q. Du and Y.-L. Chang) a special invited session on High Performance Computing for Hyperspectral Image Analysis at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Cape Town, South Africa, July 2009, and also chaired (with Q. Du and J. Bioucas-Dias) a special invited session on Recent Advances in Spectral Mixture Analysis of Hyperspectral Data at the IEEE GRSS Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS), Grenoble, France, August 2009. He served as one of the main lecturers of the International Summer School on Very High Resolution Remote Sensing held in Grenoble, France, in September 2008, where he was the instructor of a full-day tutorial on hyperspectral image analysis. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee and chaired sessions for several international conferences and symposia, including:

	IGARSS (IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009) Chair of session on Image Segmentation and Detection (2006) Chair of session on Hyperspectral Image Analysis (2007) Chair of a session on Hyperspectral Data Classification (2007) Chair of session on Hyperspectral Applications (2007) Chair of a special invited session on Hyperspectral Imaging Training (2007) Chair of a session on Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing (2008) Chair of a session on Hyperspectral: Compression and Implementation (2008) Chair of a special invited session on High Performance Computing for Hyperspectral Image Analysis (2009)
	SPIE International Symposium on Optical Engineering + Applications, Conference on Satellite Data Compression, Communication, and Processing: 2008 and 2009 Chair of a session on Satellite Image Processing (2008) Chair of a session on Satellite Data Processing (2009)
	SPIE Remote Sensing Europe, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing Conference: 2007 and 2009 Chair of a session on Hyperspectral Data Analysis and Classification (2007) Chair of a session on Anomaly and Target Detection in Hyperspectral Images (2007)
	Euro-Par (European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing: 2007) Vice-chair of topic number 9: Parallel and Distributed Programming
	Heteropar (International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks: 2006, 2007 and 2009) Chair of a session on Models and tools for heterogeneous computing (2006)
	PDIVM (International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Image Processing, Video Processing, and Multimedia, 2006)
	GridCAD (International Workshop on Grid Computing Applications Development: 2006, 2007 and 2008) Chair of a session on Grid Computing (2007)
	Urban (IEEE Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas: 2007 and 2009)
	AINA (IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications: 2008)
	KES (International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems: 2008)
	ISSPIT (IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology: 2008)
	ICIG (International Conference on Image and Graphics: 2009)
	CLADE (Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments: 2009)
	ISDA (International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications, Session on Intelligent Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing: 2009)
	WHISPERS (IEEE GRSS Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing: 2009)

Service as a reviewer. Dr. Plaza has served as a proposal evaluator for the European Commission (Marie Curie Actions, Engineering Panel, FP7), the European Space Agency, the Belgium Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He has reviewed more than 230 manuscripts for over 40 different journals:

1. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (100+ manuscripts reviewed)

2. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

3. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

4. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

5. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

6. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

7. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

8. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

9. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

10. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

11. IEEE Signal Processing Letters

12. IEEE Sensors Journal

13. Remote Sensing of Environment

14. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

15. International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications

16. Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience

17. Information Fusion

18. Information Sciences

19. International Journal of Remote Sensing

20. Computer Vision and Image Understanding

21. Cluster Computing

22. Neurocomputing

23. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

24. Signal Processing

25. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing

26. Optical Engineering

27. Journal of the Optical Society of America

28. Environmental Modelling

29. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

30. IET Image Processing

31. Sensors Journal

32. Optics and Lasers in Engineering

33. Journal of Systems and Software

34. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences

35. Sensors Journal

36. Computers in Biology and Medicine

37. Pattern Recognition Letters

38. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

39. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

40. Computers & Geosciences

41. Journal of Computational Physics

42. Applied Optics

43. Spanish Remote Sensing Journal

List of publications

Last update: October 2009