Prof. Dr. -Ing. habil. Xiaoxiang Zhu

Tel: | +49-89-289-22659 |
Fax: | +49-89-289-23202 |
Room: | 1789 |
E-mail: | xiaoxiang.zhu[at]tum.de |
More information: | Google Scholar ResearchGate |
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 06.2020, Board of Directors, Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), TUM
- Since 05.2020, PI and Director, International AI Future Lab – AI4EO
- 2019 - 2022, Spokesperson, Helmholtz AI – Research Field “Aeronautics, Space and Transport” (MASTr)
- Since 01.2019, Steering Board, Munich Data Science Research School (MUDS)
- 2018 - 2022, Founding Head of Department "EO Data Science", DLR-IMF
- 2016 - 2021, Member, Leopodina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften/Junge Akademie
- 2016 - 2019, Member, Junges Kolleg der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Since 2015, Professor for Data Science in Earth Observation, TUM
- 2011 - 2018, Scientist and Head of team "Signal Analysis", DLR-IMF
- 09.2013 - 12-2019, Helmholtz Young Investigators Group Leader of “SiPEO”
- 12.2013 - 06.2015, Private Dozent, TUM
- 09.2013 - 06.2015, TUM Junior Fellow, TUM
- 10.2011 - 2016, Research Group Leader of "SparsEO", Munich Aerospace
- 08.2008 - 05.2011, Research Assistant, TUM
Awards
- ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2022)
- Best Paper Award, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2021)
- IEEE Fellow (2021)
- Geodesy Award of the Nico Rüpke Foundation (2020)
- ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2020)
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal (2018)
- Leopoldina Early Career Award (2018)
- PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC (2018)
- Helmoholtz Excellence Professorship (2017)
- ERC Starting Grant (2016)
- IEEE GRSS Early Career Award (2016)
- DLR Science Award (2016)
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis der DFG (2015)
- Helene-Lange-Preis, EWE-Stiftung und Universit?t Oldenburg (2015)
- “Best Innovators Under 35”, Technology Review Germany (2015)
- Hugo-Denkmeier-Preis (2012)
- Dimitri N. Chorofas Foundation Research Award (2011)
- Multiple Best Paper Awards (2010, 2012, 2016, 2017)
Editorial Activities
- Associate Editor, Elsevier Pattern Recognition
- Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
- Area Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (IEEE-SPM)
Research Interests
- Remote sensing and Earth observation
- Signal processing
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Data Science
- Application focus - global urban mapping, UN’s SDGs and Climate Change
Videos
- Global urban mapping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgluoTngkQE
- Tomographic city tour of Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrpDRdhBhcQ
- Artificial intelligence for Earth observation (starting from ca. 47:00):
https://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2018/11/Ph-week_AI4EO_part_3
Key Publications
- Mou L., Bruzzone L., Zhu X. (2019)
Learning Spectral-Spatial-Temporal Features via a Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network
for Change Detection in Multispectral Imagery
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 57(2), pp.924-935 - Shi Y., Zhu X., Yin W., Bamler R. (2018)
A fast and accurate basis pursuit denoising algorithm with application to super-resolving tomographic SAR
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(10), 6148-6158 - Zhu X, Tuia D, Mou L, Xia G, Zhang L, Xu F, Fraundorfer F (2017)
Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Review and List of Resources
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 2017; 5(4): 8-36. - Zhu X., Montazeri S., Gisinger C., Hanssen R., Bamler R. (2016):
Geodetic SAR Tomography
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 54 (1), pp. 18-35. - Zhu X., Bamler R. (2013):
A Sparse Image Fusion Algorithm with Application to Pan-sharpening
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 51 (5), pp. 2827-2836. - Zhu X., Bamler R. (2010):
Tomographic SAR Inversion by L1 Norm Regularization – The Compressive Sensing Approach
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48(10), pp. 3839-3846.
See here for the full list of publications