| 01/2023 – present | Scientific Advisory Board member, Floodbase, DLR, Wessling, Germany |
| 05/2019 – present | Post-doctoral Researcher (team leader for "Machine Learning"), Department SAR Technology, DLR, Wessling, Germany |
| 02/2014 – present | Lecturing, Computer Vision & Remote Sensing group, TU Berlin, Germany |
| 02/2014 – 05/2019 | Post-doctoral Researcher, Computer Vision & Remote Sensing group, TU Berlin, Germany |
| 11/2017 – 01/2018 | Guest Researcher, Okutomi Lab, Toyko Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
| 02/2016 – 04/2017 | Lecturing, Turkish-German University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 10/2014 – 02/2015 | Scientific Coaching, SOPAT GmbH, Berlin, Germany |
| 04/2010 – 06/2010 | Freelance research and development, Datenmeer GmbH, Berlin, Germany |
| 08/2009 – 08/2009 | Guest Researcher, Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Germany |
| 07/2007 – 07/2014 | Research Scientist, Computer Vision & Remote Sensing group, TU Berlin, Germany |
| 11/2005 – 04/2006 | Research Assistant, Fraunhofer Institute IPK, Berlin, Germany |
| 2024 – present |
Chair of the German GRSS Chapter |
| 2024 – present |
Ex-officio member of the GRSS AdCom |
| 2023 – present |
WG Co-Lead of GRSS IADF Working Group on Machine Learning and Image Analysis |
| 2022 – present |
Co-Chair of ISPRS Commission II Working Group 1 - Image Orientation and Fusion |
| 2019 – present |
Representative of GRSS in SpaceNet |
| 2023 |
Membership Chair of the GRSS |
| 2022 – 2023 |
Elected member of the GRSS AdCom |
| 2021 – 2023 |
Chair of IEEE-GRSS Technical Committee Image Analysis and Data Fusion (IADF) |
| 2016 – 2022 |
Co-Chair of ISPRS Commission II Working Group 1 - Image Orientation |
| 2017 – 2021 |
Co-Chair of IEEE-GRSS Technical Committee Image Analysis and Data Fusion (IADF) |
| 2024 – present |
Editor in Chief of IEEE GRSL |
| 2022 – present |
Associate Editor of the ISPRS Journal for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| 2021 – present |
Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and
Remote Sensing (JSTARS) |
| 2021 – 2024 |
Editor in Chief of the GRSS eNewsletter |
| 2019 – 2023 |
Associate Editor of IEEE GRSL |
| Conferences |
- IGARSS 2023: Tutorial Chair and Session Organiser (Multichannel DBF Imaging Techniques, Data Analytics and AI Techniques in Remote Sensing) - MIGARS 2023: Tutorial Chair - IGARSS 2022: Session Organiser (SAR Imaging Techniques) - IGARSS 2021: Theme Coordinator (SAR Imaging Techniques and Pol-/PolInSAR) - ICETCI 2021: Competition chair - IGARSS 2020: Session Organiser (Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensors) - Smart World Congress: Program Chair - 3DV 2018: Publication Chair |
| Workshops |
- Co Chair of the "1st Workshop on Computer Vision for Earth Observation (CV4EO) Applications" WS at WACV 2024 - Co Chair of the "Machine Vision for Earth Observation and Environment Monitoring (MVEO)" WS at BMVC 2023 and BMVC 2024 - ISPRS Workshop "Photogrammetry for 3D Geo-Applications" PhotoGA 2023 within the ISPRS GeoSpatial Week 2023 - Co Chair of the "Machine Learning for Remote Sensing" WS at ICLR 2023 - Chair of the "Photogrametric Computer Vision" WS at CVPR 2023 - Chair of the "EarthVision 2024" WS at CVPR 2024 - Chair of the "EarthVision 2023" WS at CVPR 2023 - Chair of the "EarthVision 2022" WS at CVPR 2022 - Chair of the "EarthVision 2021" WS at CVPR 2021 - Chair of the "EarthVision 2020" WS at CVPR 2020 - Chair of the "EarthVision 2019" WS at CVPR 2019 - Chair of the "Photogrametric Computer Vision" WS at CVPR 2019 - ISPRS Workshop "Photogrammetry for 3D Geo-Applications" PhotoGA 2017 within the ISPRS GeoSpatial Week 2017 |
| Competitions |
- Technical lead of the SpaceNet 8 and 9 Challenges - Co-organizer of the Cross-city Semantic Segmentation (C2Seg) in Multimodal Remote Sensing - Co-organizer of the IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest 2023 - Co-organizer of the IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest 2022 - Co-organizer of the IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest 2021 - Co-organizer of the IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest 2020 - Co-organizer of the IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest 2019 - Co-organizer of the IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest 2018 |
| Tutorials / Lectures / Webinars / Talks |
- Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2024 - Tutorial "SAR Exploitation Methods and Applications" at EUSAR 2024 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2023 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2022 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at InGARSS 2021 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2021 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at InGARSS 2020 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2020 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2019 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2018 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at EUSAR 2018 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at Whispers 2018 - Tutorial "Machine Learning in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2017 - Lecture "Deep Learning for SAR" for the EO College in 2023 - Lecture "Random Forests in the age of Deep Learning" at University of Pavia and University of Milano (online) in 2023 and 2024 - Lecture "Land Cover Classification" at the CCG Course on SAR Principles and Applications 2023 - Lecture "Land Cover Classification" at the CCG Course on SAR Principles and Applications 2022 - Lecture "Land Cover Classification" at the CCG Course on SAR Principles and Applications 2021 - Lecture "Deep Learning for SAR Processing and Analysis" at Earth Observation Applications (UYGU) Summer School 2021 - Lecture "Land Cover Classification" at the CCG Course on SAR Principles and Applications 2019 - Keynote Talk at M2GARSS: "The Remote Sensing of Floods" - Keynote Talk at the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery: "The Remote Sensing of Floods" - Invited Talk at the IEEE Climate Change Online Forum: "The IEEE GRSS Earth Observation Database - Application Ready Data at Your Fingertips" - Invited Talk at the Symposium of the International Future Lab AI4EO 2023: "Towards Cross-Modal Classification of Remote Sensing Imagery" - Invited Talk at the ECMWF–ESA Workshop on Machine Learning for Earth Observation and Prediction: "Remote Sensing of Floods" - Webinar GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion TC & Sample Activity: Benchmarking ML4RS" in the GRSS webinar series - Panel Debate "Artificial Intelligence and remote sensing: needs and goals" at the AMERSIE Fall school 2020 |
| Invited Sessions |
- Invited Session "Machine Learning for Modelling and Monitoring Climate Change" at IGARSS 2024 - Invited Session "The Geometry of Remote Sensing: From Image Alignment to 3D Reconstruction" at IGARSS 2024 - Invited Session "Machine Learning for Processing and Analysis of SAR Imagery" at EUSAR 2024 - Invited Session "Data Fusion: The AI Era" at IGARSS 2023 - Invited Session "Data Fusion: The AI Era" at IGARSS 2022 - Invited Session "Datasets and Benchmarking in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2022 - Invited Session "Data Fusion: The AI Era" at IGARSS 2021 - Invited Session "Machine Learning Datasets in Remote Sensing" at IGARSS 2021 - Invited Session "Data Fusion: The AI Era" at IGARSS 2020 - Invited Session "IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest" at IGARSS 2020 - Invited Session "Data Fusion: The AI Era" at IGARSS 2019 - Invited Session "Labels in Deep Learning: Friend or Foe" at IGARSS 2019 - Invited Session "Data Fusion" at IGARSS 2018 |
| Journals |
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS) - Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS) - Photogrammetrie - Fernerkundung - Geoinformation (PFG) - ISPRS International Journal of Geoinformation (IJGI) |
| Conferences |
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) - IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) - Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) - German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) - ISPRS Congress - IGARSS |
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- W2: How certain and why? Uncertainty estimation and explainability of deep neural networks - AIvergreens: AI-based classification of deciduous/evergreen trees in boreal forests - BeBaOI: Benchmark and Baseline Methods for Determining Overlapping Images - Co-organized with University of Wuhan and Technical University of Munich - HIT Permafrost: The hidden image of thawing permafrost - DeepSAR: Physical parameter estimation from SAR Data via joint model inversion and deep learning - LightCAM: Enlightening the camera obscura – where photogrammetry, computer vision and robotics meet - ICESAR 2019 - A Study on Sea Ice based on F-SAR XCL-Band Data - Global-scale mapping of periglacial landforms on Earth and Mars using deep convolutional networks - CatSAR: Object Categorization for Polarimetric Interferometric SAR Data |
| 2018 | Best Student Paper Award, VISAPP (co-authored) Towards Image Colorization with Random Forests |
| 2016 | Best Paper of Young Authors Award, ISPRS Congress (co-authored) Reconstructing White Walls: Multi-View, Multi-Shot 3D Reconstruction of Textureless Surfaces |
| 2007 | Student Award of Faculty IV, TU Berlin |
| 04/2014 – 09/2019 | BSc.-Cand. in Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 09/2007-02/2014 | Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 – 2007 | Diploma in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany |
| German | Mother tongue |
| English | Fluent |
| Chinese | Basic |
| Japanese | Basic |
| Russian | Basic |
| 2006 – present | Study of Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu |
| 2008 – 2019 | Board member Kobukai-Berlin e.V. |
| 2011 – 2014 | Study of chanoyu (Urasenke school) |
| 2012 | Open Water Diver |