Behnood Rasti

Behnood Rasti (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, in 2014. He was a Valedictorian as an M.Sc. student in 2009. From 2015 to 2016, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Lecturer with the Center of Engineering Technology and Applied Sciences, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow from 2020 to 2021. From 2022 to 2023, he was a Principal Research Associate with Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. His research interests include signal and image processing, machine/deep learning, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Rasti won the Doctoral Grant of the University of Iceland Research Fund “The Eimskip University Fund” and the “Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship Grant” in 2013 and 2019, respectively. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL).