Prof. Dr. -Ing. habil. Xiaoxiang Zhu

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. 

 

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