**Chein-I Chang**

Chein-I Chang is a Professor with Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is currently holding a Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship at Dalian Maritime University, China. Dr. Chang has piublsihed over 183 referred SCI publications including more than 60 journal articles in IEEE *Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing*. He authored three books, Hyperspectral Imaging (Kluwer, 2003), Hyperspectral Data Processing (Wiley, 2013), Real Time Progressive Hyperspectral Image Processing (Springer, 2016) and Real-Time Recursive Hyperspectral Sample and Band Processing (Springer, 2017). In addition, He edited two books, Recent Advances in Hyperspectral Signal and Image Processing (Trasworld Research Network, India, 2006) and Hyperspectral Data Exploitation (Wiley, 2007) and co-edited with A. Plaza a book on High Performance Computing in Remote Sensing (CRC Press, 2007). Dr. Chang is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of SPIE with contributions to hyperspectral image processing.
