Dora Blanco Heras

Dora Blanco Heras is a Full Professor in the Department of Electronics and Computing at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She holds a PhD in Physics (cum laude) from the same institution and has served as Head of the Sustainable Development Office (2005–2010). Her research focuses on high performance computing, parallel computing, and GPGPU techniques applied to remote sensing and medical image processing. She leads the ARQCOMP research group in Computer Architecture and is affiliated with the Center for Research in Intelligent Technologies (CITIUS).

Research interests include:

• High-performance computing for real-time image processing
• GPU acceleration of hyperspectral/multispectral analysis
• Anomaly detection in fluvial ecosystems
• Domain adaptation for Earth observation
• Machine learning for remote sensing classification

Recent work emphasizes deep learning architectures (ResNet, GANs) for land-cover prediction and multispectral anomaly detection. Over 100 peer-reviewed publications span journals like IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, with impactful contributions to GPU-optimized algorithms and open-source tools like HypeRvieW.

Professional service includes organizing HDCRS Summer Schools on high-performance geospatial AI and chairing Euro-Par workshops. Her team develops cutting-edge solutions for environmental monitoring and sustainable computing.