Antonio Plaza was born in Cáceres, Spain, in 1975. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Extremadura, Spain. He has been a Visiting Researcher with the Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL), University of Maryland Baltimore County; with the Applied Information Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD; with the Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Data Facility, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA; with the Telecommunications and Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Pavia, Italy; and with the GIPSA-lab, Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique, France. He is currently an Associate Professor (with accreditation for Full Professor) with the Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, University of Extremadura, where he is the Head of the Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory (HyperComp). He was the Coordinator of the Hyperspectral Imaging Network, a European project designed to build an interdisciplinary research community focused on hyperspectral imaging activities. He is the author or coauthor of more than 350 publications on remotely sensed hyperspectral imaging, including more than 90 journal citation report papers (45 since January 2011), around 20 book chapters, and over 230 conference proceeding papers. His research interests include remotely sensed hyperspectral imaging, pattern recognition, signal and image processing, and efficient implementation of large-scale scientific problems on parallel and distributed computer architectures. Dr. Plaza has guest edited seven special issues on scientific journals on the topic of remotely sensed hyperspectral imaging. He has been a Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (Whispers 2011). He has also been serving as a Chair for the SPIE Conference on Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Processing, since 2009, and for the SPIE Europe Conference on High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing, since 2011. He has been a recipient of the recognition of Best Reviewers of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters in 2009 and a recipient of the recognition of Best Reviewers of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing in 2010, a journal for which he has served as Associate Editor since 2007 and for which he has reviewed more than 260 manuscripts. He served as the Director of Education Activities for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in 2011-2012, and is currently serving as President of the Spanish Chapter of IEEE GRSS. As of January 2013, he starts a three-year term as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal.