Johannes R. Sveinsson

Johannes R. Sveinsson (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, all in electrical engineering. He was with the Laboratory of Information Technology and Signal Processing from 1981 to 1982 and the Engineering Research Institute and the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, as a Senior Member of Research Staff and a Lecturer, respectively, from 1991 to 1998. He was a Visiting Research Student with the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., from 1985 to 1986. At Queen’s University, he held teaching and research assistantships. He is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland. He was the Chair of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2014, and a member of the University Council, University of Iceland, from 2002 to 2006. His research interests are in systems and signal theory. Dr. Sveinsson received the Queen’s Graduate Awards from Queen’s University. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award for Novel Engineering Application at ANNIE 1995 and co-recipient of the 2013 IEEE GRSS Highest Impact Paper Award. He has been an Associate Editor of Remote Sensing since 2018.