Gustau Camps-Valls

Gustau Camps-Valls - Vitae and Awards

1-liner vitae

Gustau Camps-Valls is a Physicist interested in AI and causality for the Earth sciences.

1-paragraph vitae

Gustau Camps-Valls is a Full Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Universitat de València. He is an expert in AI and causal inference for geosciences and remote sensing data analysis, having published extensively. He has a Ph.D. in Physics and is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has received two European Research Council (ERC) grants and holds a Hirsch's index h = 100 (Google Scholar). He has also been a Highly Cited Researcher since 2020. Gustau has achieved significant recognition with numerous awards and honors, including IEEE Fellow (2018), ELLIS Fellow (2019), Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) and the Academia Europaea (AE).

IEEE-like vitae

Gustau Camps-Valls (IEEE Fellow '18, ELLIS Fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, PhD in Physics) is a Full Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Universitat de València. He is interested in the development of AI and causal inference algorithms for modeling and understanding the Earth system. He is an author of around 350 journal papers, more than 400 conference papers, 25 international book chapters, and editor of 6 books on kernel methods and deep learning, with emphasis on geosciences and remote sensing data analysis.

He holds a Hirsch's index h = 100 (Google Scholar), has been a Highly Cited Researcher since 2020, and was identified by Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch as a "Fast Moving Front" researcher. He received two European Research Council (ERC) grants: an ERC Consolidator grant on "Statistical learning for Earth observation data analysis" (2015) and an ERC Synergy grant on "Understanding and Modelling the Earth system with machine learning" (2019).

He has achieved significant recognition with numerous awards and honors, including IEEE Fellow (2018), ELLIS Fellow (2019), IEEE David Landgrebe Award 2024, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE GRSS Fellow, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) and the Academia Europaea (AE) in 2022.

Longer vitae

Gustau Camps-Valls (born 1972 in València) is a Physicist and Full Professor in Electrical Engineering in the Universitat de València, Spain, where lectures on machine learning, remote sensing and signal processing. He is the Head of the Image and Signal Processing (ISP) group, an interdisciplinary group of 50 researchers working at the intersection of AI for Earth and Climate sciences.

Gustau is interested in developing AI and causality methods to tackle relevant environmental and societal problems. From detecting and forecasting extreme events (like droughts, heatwaves and floods), to improve Earth models with AI emulation and novel parameterizations, as well as explaining complex systems like the interconnected Earth with causality and equation discovery. He loves tackling crucial challenges in Earth and climate sciences using and developing methods of modern AI. In the last years, Gustau has been at the forefront of AI for tackling relevant socio-economic problems for the humanitarian sector, like modeling and understanding climate-induced migrations, differential vulnerability aggravated by climate change, and the impact of humanitarian aid in food crises. You can get a visual feeling of what I do in this video.

Prof. Camps-Valls published over 350+ peer-reviewed international journal papers, 400+ international conference papers, 25 book chapters, and 6 international books on remote sensing, image processing and machine learning. He has an h-index of 100 with 45000+ citations in Google Scholar. He was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2011, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; currently has 15 «Highly Cited Papers» and 1 «Hot Paper», Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch identified his activities as a Fast Moving Front research (2011) and the most-cited paper in the area of Engineering in 2011, received the Google Classic paper award (2019), and Stanford Metrics includes him in the top 2% most cited researchers of 2017-2023. He publishes in both technical and scientific journals, from IEEE and PLOS One to Nature, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and PNAS.

He has been Program Committee member of international conferences (IEEE, SPIE, EGU, AGU), and Technical Program Chair at IEEE IGARSS 2018 (2400+ attendees) and general at AISTATS 2022. He served in technical committees of the IEEE GRSS & IEEE SPS, as Associate Editor of 5 top IEEE journals, and in the prestigious IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program of the GRSS (2017-2019) to promote «AI in Earth sciences» globally. He has given 100+ talks, keynote speaker in 10+ conferences, and (co)advised 15+ PhD theses.

He coordinated/participated in 60+ research projects, involving industry and academia at national and European levels. He assisted the aerospace industry in Advisory Boards; Fellow Consultant of the ESA PhiLab (2019) and member of the EUMETSAT MTG-IRS Science Team. He is compromised with open source/access in Science, and is habitual panel evaluator for H2020 (ERC, FET), NSF, China and Swiss Science Foundations.

He coordinates the ‘Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences' research program of ELLIS, the top network of excellence on AI in Europe. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow member (2018) in two Societies (Geosciences and Signal Processing) and to ELLIS Fellow (2019). Prof. Camps-Valls is the only researcher receiving two European Research Council (ERC) grants in two different areas: an ERC Consolidator (2015, Computer Science) and ERC Synergy (2019, Physical Sciences) grants to advance AI for Earth and Climate Sciences. In 2021 he became a Member of the ESSC panel part of the European Science Foundation (ESF), and in 2022 was elevated to Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), Fellow of the Academia Europeae (AE), and Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).

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