David B. Kunkee

David B. Kunkee received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1995. He joined The Aerospace Corporation in 1995 and is currently Senior Project Leader within the Sensor Systems Subdivision. From 2010 to 2014 he was a member of the Environmental Satellite Systems Division as part of the Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS) and Weather System Follow-on (WSF) program offices. From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO), and led the Aerospace Microwave Sensors and Data Products Department within the NPOESS IPO. From 2002 to 2005 he was the Associate Director of the Radar and Signal Systems Department at Aerospace. Dr. Kunkee currently serves as Vice President, Professional Activities for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). He was General Co-Chair of the 2017 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) and served as Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee for IGARSS 2010. Dr. Kunkee is the current Secretary of USNC-URSI Commission F and has served on the National Academies’ Committee on Radio Frequencies (CORF) including its Committee on Scientific Use of the Radio Spectrum.

Mariko Burgin

Mariko Burgin (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and information technology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, in 2008, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Radiation Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2015, she was a Post-Doctoral Scholar with the Water and Carbon Cycles Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA. From 2015 to 2019, she was a Scientist with JPL, and from 2017 to 2019, she was a Visiting Associate Researcher with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA. She is currently a Systems Engineer in project systems engineering and formulation with JPL where she focuses on advanced technology development for new NASA missions, with a special interest in the early concept stage.

Her research interests include theoretical and numerical studies of random media, development of forward and inverse scattering algorithms for geophysical parameter retrieval, the study of electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering properties, machine learning, feature extraction, analysis of multi-temporal data, computer vision, and data fusion.

Dr. Burgin is a Senior Member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), and the IEEE Young Professionals (YP). She was a recipient of two NASA Group Achievement Awards and served on the SMAP Science Team. She is the IEEE GRSS Executive Vice-President, the Treasurer of the IEEE Metropolitan Los Angeles GRSS Chapter, and a Member of the IEEE GRSS Administrative Committee (AdCom).

Keely Roth

Dr. Keely Roth is a Lead Data Scientist with The Climate Corporation. She is based in San Francisco, CA, and has 10+ years experience in remote sensing research and geospatial analysis. In her current role at The Climate Corporation, she leads a team of Data Scientists, Analysts, and Engineers to develop and deploy algorithms to improve data quality. Previously she designed and led research projects aimed at improving our ability to measure and map crop health during the growing season using field data and remotely sensed imagery from UAVs, planes, and satellites. In her work, she is especially focused on and committed to applying the best remote sensing scientific principles to developing models and generating valuable data layers for her scientific colleagues as well as for farmers within the Climate FieldView platform. She is passionate about helping farmers use their data to make faster, easier, and more informed decisions, and she is optimistic that the data revolution in agriculture, especially the continued improvement and integration of remote sensing data, will have positive impacts for both farmers and the environment. Keely is very active IEEE GRSS YP ambassador and also very active in woman in GRSS activity.

Subit Chakrabarti

Dr. Subit Chakrabarti was born in Vadodara, India, in 1990. He received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and instrumentation engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 2017.,He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Center for Remote Sensing, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida. His research interests include the application of novel machine learning techniques to remotely sensed observations, crops, learning (artificial intelligence),remote sensing, agriculture, geophysical image processing, hydrological techniques, land surface temperature, moisture, soil, terrain mapping, vegetation, vegetation mapping, Markov processes, convolutional neural nets, hidden Markov models, image classification, image fusion, land cover, probability, radar imaging, radiometry, regression analysis, remote sensing by radar, spaceborne radar, synthetic aperture radar.

Fairouz Stambouli

Fairouz Stambouli received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology from the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), in Germany, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. During her master’s studies, she specialized in aerospace radio frequency (RF) engineering. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate and a Research Scientist at the Microwaves and Radar Institute of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Germany. Her research fields include cognitive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, applying artificial intelligence in the design of future fully adaptive SAR sensors, antennas, and digital beamforming techniques for flexible scanning features and adaptive imaging and tracking capabilities. She was a research student at Airbus Defense and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and an RF engineering intern at Sony Semiconductor Solutions in Atsugi, Japan. In 2020, she received the “Young Scientist Award” from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Germany.

Fairouz is a Member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), and the IEEE Young Professionals (YP). She is serving in GRSS as a Young Professionals Ambassador, Webinar Coordinator, member of the Conference Advisory Committee, and doing many activities related to the Middle East and North African region.

Anurag Vidyarthi

Dr. Anurag Vidyarthi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Graphic Era (Deemed to be) University, Uttarakhand, India. He obtained his Ph.D. and MTech degree from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Graphic Era (Deemed to be) University, Uttarakhand, India in 2014, and M.Sc. (Electronics) degree from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. He has completed his graduation from Rohilkhand University, Bareilly. Dr. Anurag Vidyarthi has awarded "Senior Member IEEE" in 2021. He is awarded "Outstanding Researcher award 2021, Outstanding Researcher award 2018 and Research Excellence Award, 2015". He received the Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship from SAC, ISRO. He has completed various sponsored research projects. He has published one book and approximately 80 research papers in various International/national Journal and Conferences of repute. His areas of interest are for change detection application through satellite images, Rain attenuation at mm-wave frequencies, Fade mitigation techniques, Ionospheric effects on navigation system, Application of Navigational satellite data.