Prof. Javier Plaza Miguel

IEEE Senior Member

Associate Editor of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Associate Editor of IEEE GRSS Remote Sensing Code Library

Member of the Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory

Full Professor / Catedrático de Universidad

Department of Technology of Computers and Communications

University of Extremadura

Bio and research interests

Javier Plaza was born in Caceres, SPAIN, in 1979. He received the Computer Engineer degree in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in 2008, all in Computer Engineering. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award at the University of Extremadura in 2008. He is a Full Professor with the Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, where he has taught more than 18 different courses in Bachelor, Master and PhD. Degrees.

Dr. Plaza has authored or co-authored around 200 scientific publications, including more than 85 JCR journal papers, 4 edited special issue, 8 book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed international conference proceedings (see profiles: Google Scholar, Orcid, Scopus, ResearchId, DBLP)

Dr. Plaza is Senior Member of IEEE and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) since 2009. He is Associate Editor of  IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters since 2016 and Associate Editor of IEEE GRSS Remote Sensing Code Library since 2017 He has served as a Reviewer for more than 300 papers submitted to more than 50 different journals, including NATURE and several prestigious GRSS journals such as the PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND REMOTE SENSING, the IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, the IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING MAGAZINE, and also other prestigious IEEE journals such as the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS; MAN AND CYBERNETICS C. He is member of the Editorial Board of several JCR indexed journals. Dr. Plaza has served as a proposal evaluator for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation since 2008. He has also served as proposal evaluator for the Czech Science Foundation, the Luxemburg National Research Fund, the Chilean National Science and Technology Commission and the Observatorio Colombiano de Ciencia y Tecnología.

Dr. Plaza is the recipient of the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award at the University of Extremadura in 2008. Dr. Plaza is a recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Paper Award, for the contribution entitled "Parallel Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing" published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in April 2011. He received the Top Cited Article award of Elsevier's Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (in 2005-2010) for the contribution entitled "Commodity Cluster-Based Parallel Processing of Hyperspectral Imagery." He is a recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, for the contribution entitled "Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Spectral/Spatial Hyperspectral Denoising" and the 2008 Best Paper award at the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, for the contribution entitled "Morphological Feature Extraction and Spectral Unmixing of Hyperspectral Images."

His main research interests comprise hyperspectral image analysis, signal processing, deep learning, neural networks and efficient implementations of large-scale scientific problems on high performance computing architectures, including commodity clusters, heterogeneous networks of computers and grids, and specialized computer architectures such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or graphical processing units (GPUs).

Bibliometric indicators

In the following, several bibliometric indicators about the research works of Dr. Plaza are provided. These indicators were collected on November 17, 2023:

Journal papers (88)

Guest edited special issues (4)



Book chapters (7)

International conference papers (99)

National conference papers (15)

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