Detection and Classification of Sea Surface Signatures Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

Professor Alin Achim received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from “Politechnica” University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1995 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2003. He then obtained an European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Post-doctoral Fellowship, which he spent with the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy, and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) Sophia Antipolis, France. In October 2004, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., as a Lecturer, where he became a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in 2010 and a Reader in biomedical image computing in 2015. Since August 2018, he holds the Chair of Computational Imaging, at the University of Bristol. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow with the Laboratoire I3S, Université Cote d’Azur. He was awarded a Chair of Excellence by the University of the Code d’Azur in 2020.
Alin has coauthored over 200 scientific publications, including 69 journal articles. His research interests include statistical signal, image, and video processing and machine learning, with applications in both biomedical imaging and Earth Observation. He was/is an Elected Member of the Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, an Affiliated Member (invited) of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee, and a member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society’s Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee. He was/is an Associate Editor / Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging.