Gabriele CavallaroView profile
Associate Professor
Prof. Gabriele Cavallaro is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland (since 2024) and concurrently serves as a Visiting Professor at the European Space Agency's Φ-Lab, contributing to the Quantum Computing for Earth Observation (QC4EO) initiative. He leads the Simulation and Data Lab (SDL) at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, focusing on AI/ML for remote sensing. Previously, he held roles as Deputy Head of the High Productivity Data Processing (HPDP) group (2016–2021), Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Iceland's Computer Science Department (2022–2024), and Chair/Co-chair of IEEE GRSS technical committees. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy (2011, 2013), and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iceland (2016). His research emphasizes scalable machine learning algorithms, quantum computing integration, and high-performance computing for remote sensing applications, particularly in geospatial data analysis and earth observation. Prof. Cavallaro has received the IEEE GRSS Third Prize in the Student Paper Competition (2015) . His work bridges academic and industrial collaborations, including leadership in the HDCRS and QUEST TC committees. He has organized workshops and summer schools on disruptive computing architectures and co-edited the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) from 2022 to 2024. His roles include advancing modular supercomputing systems like the Juwels Booster and developing tools for distributed neural network training. He is also involved in initiatives such as Sen4map (semantic land-use mapping) and Prithvi (foundation models for geospatial data).
