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Dr. Luca Pallotta

Assistant Professor,

Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering

     University of Roma Tre, Via Vito Volterra 62, 00146, Rome, Italy

          Senior Member IEEE and Associate Editor | IEEE JSTAR

Dr. Luca Pallotta (Senior Member IEEE) received the Laurea Specialistica degree (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering in 2009 from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and telecommunication engineering in 2014 from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.

He is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Roma Tre, Italy. He got the National Scientific Qualification (art.16 of the law 30 December 2010, n.240) as University Associate Professor for competition sector 09/F2 (Telecommunication).

More than 10 years of experience in research in Signal Processing and Remote Sensing, with strong expertise in the field of covariance matrix estimation for radar applications, radar targets detection, automatic target recognition (ATR), micro-Doppler signature analysis and exploitation, multi-polarimetric SAR image classification, statistical signal processing with emphasis on radar/SAR signal processing.

Since November 2020 he is Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS). Guest Editor for the special issue on “Target Recognition in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery” for the journal MDPI remote sensing. From July 2018 to February 2021, he was Associate Editor for the journal Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP).

He was a finalist of the M. Barry Carlton Award with the paper “A Novel Algorithm for Radar Classification based on Doppler Characteristics Exploiting Orthogonal Pseudo-Zernike Polynomials by C. Clemente, L. Pallotta, A. De Maio, J. J. Soraghan e A. Farina”, published on IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems in 2015.

Dr. Pallotta won the Student Paper Competition at the IEEE Radar Conference 2013. He has an extensive publication output with 40 research papers (IEEE, IET), and more than 40 conference proceedings in highly ranked conferences ( IEEE Radar Conference, IRS, Nato Specialists Meeting…), and 5 book chapters. He is currently a referee for several international scientific journals and conferences.

Dr. Tayeb A. Denidni

Full Professor, Antennas and radio frequency systems

head of the Radio Frequency Laboratory

E-mail: tayeb.denidni@inrs.ca

Dr. Denidni has established international recognition in research and development in the area of antennas and microwave and mm-wave circuit design. He has developed innovative efficient antenna designs and made significant contributions to their use in wireless communication systems at microwave and millimeter-wave bands. Since 2000 at INRS, he has proposed an ambitious interdisciplinary research program on antennas for wireless communications systems, emphasizing severels topicsm such as Reconfigurable antennas, Beamforming and adaptive antenna arrays, Millimeter-wave antennas, Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) structures, Frequency selective surfaces (FSS), Metamaterials, Dielectric resonator antennas, Radio frequency techniques, Wireless communication systems, Millimeter-wave RF devices and circuits.

His research effort in antennas has been outstandingly successful. The following aspects deserve to be emphasized: (i) more than 150 papers in the best journals relevant to the field (including IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, IET Electronics Letters, IET Microwave Antennas and Propagation, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Progress in Electromagnetics Research, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications) and more than 200 conference papers and 10 talks at international conferences resulted from this research program; (ii) He has successfully supervised and continues to supervise a large number of graduate students. He has supervised more than 70 graduate students and researchers. They were hired right after completing their work, and seven of them arerecruited as professors in Universities, (iii) Dr. Denidni maintained a close involvement with industry along his scientific research work (Ultra Electronics Tactical systems, K&G Spectrum, MDA, FLIR Radar, SMC , Bell and Télébec), (v) through the CFI program, he set up the initial nucleus of the RF Laboratory at INRS, comprising facilities such as an anechoic chamber, a near-field antenna measurement system and RF instruments (total of 3 M$).

From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Denidni s served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas Propagation. From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Denidni served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas Wireless Propagation Letters· In 2008, he was awarded by Antennas and Propagation Society for his contribution in APW letters. Since 2004, he has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE. In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, he was awarded by INRS for outstanding research and teaching achievements. He served as a publicity chair for IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, Sept. 2006.  He served as an Exhibition chair for ANTEM conference, Montreal, July 2006. Member of organizing comity for several international and national conferences. Reviewer for various journals: IEEE Trans. Ant. and prop., IEEE Ant. and Wireless Prop. Let., IEEE MTT, IET Electronics Letters, IET Microwave, antennas and propagation Proceedings. Member of Scientific Committee of Centre de Recherche en Électronique Radiofréquence (CREER). Member of Scientific Committee of The research laboratory Télébec in  underground communications. Dr. Denidni has significantly contributed to the curriculum renewal at the Engineering department at the University of Quebec and the telecommunications center at INRS. He also has a responsible share of departmental, university-level, and professional committee works.

Dr. Ana Claudia Teodoro

Associate Professor,

Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Plannings

E-mail: amteodor@fc.up.pt

Dr Ana C. Teodoro was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1974. She received the B.S. degree in Surveying Engineering, the M.S. degree in Surveying Engineering, and thePhD degree in Surveying Engineering from the Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, in 1998, 2001, and 2007, respectively.

Since 1999, she has been with the Universidade do Porto. Between 1999 and 2010, she was with Applied Mathematics Department as Teaching Assistant (until 2007) and Assistant Professor (2007–2010).

She is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Department of Geosciences, Environment and Land Planning at Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. Between 1999 and 2014, she has been a scientific researcher in the Geo-Space Sciences Research Center (CICGE). Since 2015 she is a scientific researcher in the Institute of Earth Sciences (ICT). Her research interests include remote sensing, coastal zones, environmental applications, image processing and GIS.

Dr.  Noureddine Melikechi

Professor of Physics and Dean, Kennedy College of Science

University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

Member of the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA

Pr Noureddine Melikechi is an Algerian-American physicist, educator and inventor. He is the author of more than 125 peer-reviewed publications, three book chapters and 15 patents, and recipient of numerous prestigious awards. Melikechi is a member of the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA’s largest Mars exploration effort to date.

Melikechi received his Baccalaureate in Mathematics from Lycee Abane Ramdane in El-Harrach, Algiers. He enrolled at the University Houari Boumediene of Sciences and Technology of Algiers where he earned a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures in Physics. He went on to pursue graduate work in England where he worked towards his Masters and Doctorate in the laboratory of Professor Leslie Allen on optical coherent control of electronic dipole transitions in sodium atoms. Noureddine’s research spans a wide range that are all focused on light with contributions to laser interactions with various samples and more recently to the early detection of signatures of cancers and Alzheimer’s using laser spectroscopy and machine learning.

Melikechi is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards:

• 2016 – Fellow of the Optical Society of America
• 2014 – Excellence Award for Youth Empowerment and Development in Africa, the “African Society for Engineering Management”
• 2013 – NASA Group Achievement Award, Mars Science Laboratory ChemCam Instrument Development and Science Team, NASA
• 2013 – Arfken Scholar-in-Residence, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
• 2012 – International Science Award, US-Algerian Business Council
• 2012 – Academic Research Award, the Delaware Bioscience Association
• 2011 – Named Delaware’s “Ambassador to Mars” by Delaware Governor, The Honorable Jack Markell
• 2010 – Citizen of Science Award, El Moustakbel Youth Foundation, Algeria.

 Noureddine is actually a Professor of Physics and Dean of the Kennedy College of Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow of the American Physical Society; Fellow of the Optical Society of America; Fellow of the Scientific Research Honors Society, SigmaX.

Dr. William J. Blackwell

Doctor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Associate Leader, Space Systems and Technology, Applied Space Systems Group

Dr. William J. Blackwell is the Associate Leader of the Applied Space Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he leads a number of p rojects involving atmospheric remote sensing, including the development and calibration of airborne and space-borne microwave sensors, the retrieval of geophysical products from remote radiance measurements, and the application of electromagnetic, signal processing, and estimation theory.

Dr. Blackwell has served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Magazine, cochair of the IEEE GRSS Remote Sensing Instruments and Technologies for Small Satellites working group, the NASA Aqua science team, and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Radio Frequencies. He is currently the principal investigator on the NASA TROPICS Earth Venture mission and the MicroMAS (Micro-sized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite) missions. He was previously the Integrated Program Office sensor scientist for the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder on the Suomi National Polar Partnership launched by NOAA in 2011 and the Atmospheric Algorithm Development team leader for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Microwave Imager/Sounder.

Dr. Blackwell received the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence Award in 2019 for his “innovative contributions to the science and practice of environmental monitoring.” He was selected as a 2012 recipient of the IEEE Region 1 Managerial Excellence in an Engineering Organization Award “for outstanding leadership of the multidisciplinary technical team developing innovative future microwave remote sensing systems.” In 2009, he was presented with the NOAA David Johnson Award for his work in neural network geophysical parameter retrievals and microwave calibration and is coauthor of “Neural Networks in Atmospheric Remote Sensing” (Artech House, 2009) and “Microwave Radar and Radiometric Remote Sensing” (Artech House, 2015). Dr. Blackwell has also been an author of more than 180 publications related to atmospheric remote sensing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.

Dr. Blackwell received the BEE degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the SM and ScD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Dr. Chris Rampersad

Vice President of Engineering, EarthDaily Analytics

Applied Science Aerospace Engineering

Canada

Chris Rampersad is the Vice President of Engineering at EarthDaily Analytics at UrtheCast, a leading-edge earth observation company based in Vancouver, Canada. He is responsible for the overall engineering activities for the upcoming UrtheDaily mission, which will power geoanalytics at a daily global scale with true scientific quality 5-meter resolution imagery.

Chris has been developing mission solutions and software algorithms for improving image quality in earth observation sensors for over 15 years for some of industries’ leading satellites including the WorldView Constellation, as well as other classified projectsm and 20 years of experience working in space and ground segment engineering for several Earth Observation missions including the WorldView and RapidEye satellite constellations and is an IEEE GRSS Industry speaker.

 He holds a Master of Applied Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), a B. Eng in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa and a BSc in Physics (Honours) from the University of Manitoba. For the past 6 years, Chris has been employed at UrtheCast
where he acted as a ground and space systems engineer, technical lead for UrtheCast’s optical processing system, and technical commissioning lead for the Theia medium resolution and Iris high-resolution video sensor (World’s first colour high-resolution video from space). Chris also worked at MDA in Vancouver for 9 years as a ground segment technical lead on a variety of earth observation satellites and sensors including the RapidEye Constellation.

 He is currently leading the software development for EarthDaily Analytics’ product suite and the upcoming EarthDaily Constellation which will image the earth’s landmass every day with 22 spectral bands. 

Dr. Yacine Bouroubi

Professor agrégé, University of Sherbrooke

– Associate Professor, University of Montreal.

– Head of the master’s degree in applied geomatics and remote sensing

– Head of the doctorate in remote sensing

Quebec, Canada

Dr. Yacine Bouroubi is a professor in the Department of Applied Geomatics at the University of Sherbrooke, specializing in remote sensing, geospatial data science and artificial intelligence AI. He holds a PhD in remote sensing from the University of Montreal, as well as a master’s degree from USTHB and an engineering degree from ENP-Alger in electrical engineering. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, acquired within academic, public and industrial research organizations. His work focuses on the exploitation of geospatial data using machine learning algorithms, in particular by applying deep learning to the analysis of Earth observation images. Professor Bouroubi has several collaborative projects with the practical community in various remote sensing themes.

Dr. Issam Boukerch

 Head of Department of Geomatics and Remote Sensing At National Higher School of Geodetic Sciences and Space Techniques.

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Géodésiques et Techniques Spatiales (ENSGTS) 

Dr Issam Boukerch was born in Tipaza, Algeria, in 1979. In 2003, he graduated in Geodetic Sciences and Surveying from the Centre National des Techniques Spatiales, Arzew, Algeria. In 2006, he received his M.Sc. degree in Space Sciences and Technologies from the UN affiliated Centre Regional Africain des Sciences et des Technologies de l’Espace en Langue Française, Rabat, Morocco. In 2018, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Geography at the University Oran 2, Oran, Algeria. Since 2013, he was a Senior Researcher at the “Centre des Techniques Spatiales”. Actually, he is the head of the geomatics and remote sensing department in the “Ecole National Supérieur des Sciences Géodésiques et Techniques Spatiales” (ENSGTS). His main research interests concern close range and aerial photogrammetry and geometric modelling of remote sensing imagery systems, geomatics and its applications.

Dr.  Abdelwahab Chikouche

Director of Space programs and Industry development, at the Algerian Space Agency- ASAL , Algeria

Dr Abdelwahab Chikouche is Director of Space programs and Industry development, at the Algerian Space Agency, in this role; he contributes to the implementation of the national space programs; Proposes, the industrial development actions of space systems that respond to national concerns and ensure their proper execution;

In particular, he was in charge of the implementation of the recent Algerian Space Systems, including the Alcomsat-1, telecommunication satellite. Alsat-1B and Alsat-2B remote sensing satellites.

Dr Abdelwahab Chikouche earned his PhD in Satellite engineering at Surrey Space Center SSC, United Kingdom; and Engineering degree in Control systems from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique (ENP), Algeria

• Papers Submission Deadline: September 10, 2022.
• Cv Submission Deadline: September 10, 2022.
• Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2022.