Jakub Nalepa

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Jakub Nalepa received his MSc (2011), PhD (2016), and DSc (2021) in Computer Science from Silesian University of Technology, Poland, where he is an Associate Professor. Jakub is Head of AI at KP Labs where he shapes the scientific and industrial AI objectives of the company related to, among others, Earth Observation, on-board and on-the-ground satellite data analysis, (deep) machine learning and image analysis. He has been pivotal in designing the on-board deep learning capabilities of the Intuition-1 mission (KP Labs), and has contributed to other missions, including CHIME, Φ-Sat-2 and OPS-SAT (European Space Agency). His interests focus on (deep) machine learning, multi/hyperspectral data analysis, signal processing, remote sensing, evolutionary computation, explainable artificial intelligence and tackling practical challenges which arise in Earth Observation to deploy scalable Earth Observation solutions. Jakub was the General Chair of the HYPERVIEW Challenge at IEEE ICIP 2022 focusing on the estimation of soil parameters from HSIs on board Intuition-1, as well as of the HYPERVIEW2 Challenge at ECAI 2025. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.