Behnood Rasti
Behnood Rasti (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in
electronics and electrical engineering from the Electrical Engineering
Department, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran, in 2006 and 2009,
respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering
from the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2014.
From 2015 to 2016, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department, University of Iceland. From 2016 to
2019, he was a Lecturer with the Center of Engineering Technology and
Applied Sciences, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Iceland. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow in 2020 and 2021.
He is currently a Principal Research Associate with Helmholtz-Zentrum
Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Freiberg, Germany. His research interests include
signal and image processing, machine/deep learning, remote sensing, and
artificial intelligence.
Dr. Rasti was the Valedictorian as an
M.Sc. student in 2009. He won the
Doctoral Grant of The University of Iceland Research Fund “The Eimskip
University Fund” and the “Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship Grant”
in 2013 and 2019, respectively. He also serves as an Associate Editor for
the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL).