Jón Atli Benediktsson
Jón Atli Benediktsson (born May 19, 1960 in Reykjavík, Iceland) became President of the Governing Council and Rector of the University of Iceland in July 2015. He took over from professor Kristín Ingólfsdóttir who was Rector 2005-2015. Prior to taking office Jón Atli Benediktsson was a professor in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was the Pro-Rector for science and academic affairs 2009-2015, and has served in various other administrative capacities within the University of Iceland..[1]
Education and career
Jón Atli Benediktsson graduated with a Ph.D. from Purdue University, West -Lafayette in Indiana, USA in 1990. His research is in the areas of remote sensing, image analysis, signal processing and biomedical engineering. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 research papers and, book chapters and a book. He is a Fellow of IEEE (2004) and of SPIE (2013). He received the Stevan J. Kristof Award (1990), the Young Researcher Award from the Icelandic Research Council (1997), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), and Iceland’s Electrical Engineer of the Year (award 2013). Further, he has received many awards for scientific papers, including the Highest Impact Paper Award from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (2013).
Jón Atli was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2003-2008. He is now a member of the editorial board of the flagship journal of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) – Proceedings of IEEE. In 2011 and 2012 he was the President of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. From In 2014, he has beenwas a member of the IEEE Fellow Committee.
Jón Atli is the co-founder of the start-up company Oxymap which has developed equipment and software for the diagnosis of eye disease via digital image analysis. Jón Atli is the co-author of three patents.
Jón Atli has been a Visiting Professor at universities in Italy, England and China. He was also a Visiting Scientist at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy (1998). Jón Atli has taught graduate courses at the University of Trento, Italy (annually, 2001-2013), the University of Genoa, Italy (2003) and Jilin University, China (2007).
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| Preceded by Kristín Ingólfsdóttir |
Rector of the University of Iceland 2015-– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |