Dr. Farid Melgani received the State Engineer degree in electronics from the University of Batna, Algeria, in 1994, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2003. From 1999 to 2002, he cooperated with the Signal Processing and Telecommunications Group, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa. Since 2002, he has been an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor of telecommunications at the University of Trento, Italy, where he has taught pattern recognition, machine learning, radar remote-sensing systems, and digital transmission. He is the Head of the Signal Processing and Recognition (SPR) Laboratory, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. His research interests are in the areas of remote sensing, signal/image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and computer vision. He is coauthor of about 200 scientific publications and is a referee for numerous international journals. Dr. Melgani has served on the scientific committees of several international conferences and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, and Sensors. More: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~melganif/
