Begüm Demir

Begüm Demir is a Professor and the founder head of the Remote Sensing Image Analysis (RSiM) group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin and the head of the Big Data Analytics for Earth Observation group at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). She performs research in the field of processing and analysis of large-scale Earth observation data acquired by airborne and satellite-borne systems. She was awarded the prestigious ‘2018 Early Career Award’ by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society for her research contributions in machine learning for information retrieval in remote sensing. In 2018, she received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her project “BigEarth: Accurate and Scalable Processing of Big Data in Earth Observation”. She is an IEEE Senior Member and Fellow of European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).