Farid Melgani received the State Engineer degree in electronics from the
University of Batna, Algeria, in 1994, the M.Sc. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1999, and the Ph.D.
degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of
Genoa, Italy, in 2003. He is a Full Professor of telecommunications at
the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Trento, Italy, where he teaches pattern recognition,
machine learning, and digital transmission. He is the Head of the Signal
Processing and Recognition Laboratory, and the Coordinator of the
Doctoral School in Industrial Innovation at the same university. His
research interests are in the areas of remote sensing, signal/image
processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and computer vision.
He is coauthor of more than 220 scientific publications. He is currently
an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing, International Journal of Remote Sensing, and IEEE Journal on
Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems.