Gustau Camps-Valls, professor of the Department of Electronics Engineering of the UV and coordinator of the research group Image and Signal Processing (ISP) group, http://isp.uv.es, in the Scientific Park of the same university has been recognised as a’‘Fellow’ by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) due to their highest level of membership.

The ‘Fellow’ title of the IEEE is reserved to the professionals with outstanding merits in some areas of interest in the IEEE, the largest Engineering worldwide association in technology. The IEEE has more than 120 years of history and we can find 425,000 members in 160 countries. It is devoted to the breakthrough in technology and publishes the 40% of the academic papers in the Electrics, Electronics Engineering and the Computer Science fields. Some of the most remarkable IEEE’s presidents and of the foundational organizations were Alexander Graham Bell (1891-1892), Llig De Forest (1930), William R. Hewlett (1954) or Ernst Weber(1959 and 1963).

There are there levels of belonging in the IEEE: The first one is the ‘Member’ or Student Member. For this level, it is only required to pay the membership fee. The second one, ‘Senior Member’, it can be reached after studying 5 years of the degree and passing an assessment process that requires two references at least. The Fellow, the degree with more than 100 years since its start requires that the professional has more than 32 years old and 10 years of experience. It is obtained through a double process of assessment, prior to a request that contains all its achievements and after approval of its own Technical Society within the IEEE. The one from Professor Camps-Valls is the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), but there are thirty-nine. In fact, the Signal Processing Society (SPS) He has also collected it in its list of members ‘Fellow’. Only, one member of one thousand is recognised the ‘Fellow’ worth. It is only 0,1 %.

After the selection by the Internal Committee to the Society, another stage of the process begins with competing with all those selected from these thirty-nine societies in a global committee of the IEEE, called Board of Directions. The request can be supported by 8 Fellows of the Society as had happened with Gustau Camps-Valls. Some of the criteria selection are the relevant contributions in the technic and technological fields related to the IEEE, the technical achievements that have had a significant impact on society, service to engineering societies or the total number of years in the profession. In the professor’s Gustau Camps-Valls, the motto of the acknowledgement is ‘for contributions tomachine learning inremotesensing’.

Gustau Camps-Valls is professor the UV Electronics Engineering Department from 1998 and full university professor from 2017. Gustau coordinates the research group Image andSignalProcessing (ISP), http://isp.uv.es, and has been awarded by the prestigious European Research Council ERC Consolidator Grant in 2015, and recently appointed distinguished professor for the IEEE, among many other recognitions. He has published 150 articles in international journals, 200 communications at congresses, 5 international books, and coordinated more than 10 research projects, and other research contracts, many of them financed by the European Commission and other international organizations, European Space Agency (ESA) and EUMETSAT.

*Links:

[1] https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/2018_elevated_fellows.pdf
[2] https://signalprocessingsociety.org/newsletter/2018/01/39-sps-members-elevated-fellow