Jakub Nalepa

Jakub Nalepa received his M.Sc. (2011), Ph.D. (2016), and D.Sc. (2021) degrees in computer science from Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland, where he is currently an associate professor. He is also the head of artificial intelligence (AI) at KP Labs, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland, where he shapes the scientific and industrial AI objectives of the company. He has been pivotal in designing the onboard deep learning capabilities of Intuition-1 and has contributed to other missions, including CHIME, Phi-Sat-2 and OPS-SAT. His research interests include (deep) machine learning, hyperspectral data analysis, signal processing, remote sensing, and tackling practical challenges that arise in Earth observation to deploy scalable solutions. He was the general chair of the HYPERVIEW Challenge at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, focusing on the estimation of soil parameters from hyperspectral images onboard Intuition-1 to maintain farm sustainability by improving agricultural practices. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.