🧑 Fabio DEL FRATE
đź“ŤUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome (Italy)
Prof. Fabio Del Frate is Full Professor at University of Rome “Tor Vergata” since 1999, where he is currently a Full Professor, teaching courses on Remote Sensing and Applied Electromagnetism in various Master and PhD Programs. He is the Coordinator of the “Design, Application, Regulation of UAVs” MSc program and Erasmus coordinator for the Engineering Macroarea. He is, or has been, principal investigator/project manager in several ESA and Italian Space Agency (ASI) funded research projects, author of more than 200 international scientific publications with a special focus on feature extraction algorithms from EO data using neural networks. He has been session organizer and in technical boards of International Conferences and Workshops focused on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. He has been Associate Editor for Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Guest Editor for EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and Remote Sensing. Currently he is a Member of the scientific section board of the Remote Sensing journal and Associate Editor for Frontiers of Remote Sensing. He has been a member of the ESA GOME ozone profile retrieval working group. In 2006 and 2007 he was a member of the group winning the IEEE data fusion contest. In 2015 he was appointed EUMETSAT Associate Scientist for activities regarding the estimation of precipitation rate from satellite data. From 2019 to 2022 he received an appointment by ESA as Visiting Professor at the ESA ESRIN centre to provide support in the use of AI for EO data processing. In 2006 he co-founded GEO-K srl, the 1st spin-off company of the University of “Tor Vergata”. For AI4AGRI, he is representing the Tor Vergata University and he is involved in the different workpackages. He also gave lectures during the AI4Agri summer schools and organised the program of work for the visiting researchers from the ROmanian Excellence Center on AI for Agriculture.