IEEE ARGENCON 2020

Marcelo is the Director of “Mario Gulich” Institute for Advanced Space Studies . Investigator at CONAE since 1998. Former Director of the Maestría en Aplicaciones de Información Espacial (MAIE) and current Director of Doctorado En Geomática y Sistemas Espaciales (DGSE). Author of 77 indexed publications in Scopus H14. Director of over 20 thesis of degree and postgraduate degree. College Professor of degree and postgraduate degree since 1990.

Electrical Engineer with or Electronics (UNMDP ,1979). PhD student in Electronic Engineering. Regular assistant professor. Worked at the CNIE (1981 to 1989). Currently Chief of Mar Chiquita Station, FAA Remote Sensing Center. Researcher RPIDFA Category C1. Senior member IEEE. President of local chapter IEEE-GRSS (Geoscience Remote Sensing Society). Areas of interest: Remote Sensing and Sensors, Signal Processing, Antennas, Receivers, Satellite Receiving Stations. Director of the PIDDEF 34/2016 project. Development of SDR receivers for telemetry and data. Representative for the CIN-UNMDP in the SNCAD-MinCyT.

Jorge L. Márquez

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Laura Frulla, PhD in Physical Sciences and researcher at the National Commission on Space Activities (CONAE) and current manager of Earth Observation at the SAOCOM Mission, is one of the women who led the construction of the last satellite built by the state-owned company from Bariloche, Rio Negro.

Laura Frulla

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He was born in Mendoza, Argentina, 21 February 1960. In 1983 he received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Mendoza. His M.Sc. degree was in Applied Mathematics (Statistics) from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, 1990) and his Ph.D. degree was in Applied Computing from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE, São José dos Campos, Brazil, 1993). In 2007 he made a Postdoctoral stay of six months at IMPA, and in 2017 two months with the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou) under the President’s International Fellowship Initiative. Since 2019 he holds a Huashan Scholar position from the Xiamen University, Xi’an, China. He served as Visiting Researcher at INPE during 1994 and 1995, and then he moved to the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil where he was Visiting Professor (1996) and Assistant Professor (1997-2003). Since 2003 he is a full professor at the Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil. Licensed from this position since May 2020, he is currently Professor of Statistics and Data Science with the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand . He is the founder of LaCCAN – Laboratório de Computação Científica e Análise Numérica. He was the University Vice-Chancellor for Research, Graduate Courses, and Innovation of Ufal from 2016 to 2020. Since 1993 he has been seamlessly awarded a CNPq Research Grant; he is currently Level 1B (the second highest level). After serving as Associate Editor for more than five years, Prof. Frery was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2014-2018). Since 2015 he is one of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Distinguished Lecturers. In 2018 he received the IEEE GRSS Regional Leader Award. Since 2019 he serves as AdCom (Advisory Committee) member for the IEEE GRSS, in charge of Future Publications, Plagiarism, and Regional Symposia. His research interests are data visualization, statistical computing, and stochastic modeling, with applications in signal and image processing, and networks.

Alejandro Frery

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Carlos López-Martínez (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 1999 and 2003, respectively.,He is currently an Associate Professor in the area of remote sensing and microwave technology with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. He has a large professional international experience at DLR, Germany, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, and as a Group Leader of the Remote Sensing and Natural Resources Modeling Team, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. He has authored more than 200 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings. His research interests include synthetic aperture radar (SAR) theory, statistics and applications, multidimensional SAR, radar polarimetry, physical parameter inversion, advanced digital signal processing, estimation theory, and harmonic analysis.,Dr. López-Martínez is a member of the ESA’s Sentinel ROSE-L Mission Advisory Group. He was a recipient of the EUSAR 2002 Conference Student Prize Paper Award. He coauthored the article awarded with the EUSAR 2012 Conference First Place Student Paper Award, and received the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) 2013 GOLD Early Career Award. He has broad academic teaching experience from bachelor, master, and Ph.D. levels to advanced technical tutorials presented at international conferences and space and research institutions worldwide. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing and MDPI Remote Sensing, acting also as Invited Guest Editor for several special issues. He has collaborated in the Spanish PAZ and the ESA’s SAOCOM-CS missions, in the proposal of the Parsifal mission. He was appointed Vice-President of the IEEE-GRSS Spanish chapter, and in 2016, he became its Secretary and Treasurer. From 2011, he collaborates with the IEEE-GRSS Globalization initiative in Latin America, contributing to the creation of the IEEE-GRSS Chilean Chapter and the Organization of the 2020 LAGIRSS Conference, being appointed as Latin America Liaison in 2019. He is also a Co-Chair of the Tutorial Technical Committee of the Indian 2020 InGARSS Conference.(Based on document published on 6 April 2020)