Received the IEEE GRSS Early Career Award in 2021; Best Paper Award at IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) in 2015; Best Reviewer Award of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing in 2017; Listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University; Serves as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing eNewsletter, Deputy Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), and Associate Editor for multiple IEEE journals.
Research Experience
Scientist at NATO Science & Technology Organization Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), La Spezia, Italy from 2014 to 2019; Assistant Professor at the University of Salerno, Italy in 2019; Visiting Professor at Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG), France in 2019; Visiting Researcher at Inria, France in 2024; Currently a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council (Italy).
Education
B.Sc. in Information Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Salerno, Italy in 2008; M.Sc. in Information Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Salerno, Italy in 2011; Ph.D. in Information Engineering (highest rank) from the University of Salerno, Italy in 2014.
Background
Research interests include image fusion, statistical signal processing, deep learning, and classification and tracking of remotely sensed images.