Xiao Xiang Zhu

Xiao Xiang Zhu (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Sc., Dr.-Ing., and Habilitation degrees in the field of signal processing from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany, in 2008, 2011, and 2013, respectively. She is currently a Professor for Data Science in Earth Observation (former: Signal Processing in Earth Observation) with TUM, and the Head of the Department “EO Data Science,” Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany. Since 2019, she has been a Co-Coordinator of Munich Data Science Research School, Munich. Since 2019, she has been the Head of the Helmholtz Artificial Intelligence-Research Field “Aeronautics, Space and Transport.” Since May 2020, she has been the Director of the International Future AI Laboratory “Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (AI4EO): Reasoning, Uncertainties, Ethics and Beyond,” Munich. Since October 2020, she has been serving as a Co-Director of the Munich Data Science Institute, TUM. She was a Guest Scientist or a Visiting Professor with the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IREA), Naples, Italy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, and University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2009, 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively. She is currently a Visiting AI Professor with the ESA'S Phi-Laboratory. She is a member of Young Academy (Junge Akademie/Junges Kolleg) with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She serves in the scientific advisory board in several research organizations, among others the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Her main research interests include remote sensing and Earth observation, signal processing, machine learning and data science, with their applications in tackling societal grand challenges, e.g., global urbanization, United Nations sustainable development goals, and climate change. Dr. Zhu is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and serves as the Area Editor responsible for special issues of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.