Biography

Alejandro C. Frery was born in Mendoza, Argentina, on 21 February 1960. In 1983 he received a B.Sc. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Mendoza. His M.Sc. degree was in Applied Mathematics (Statistics) from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, 1990), and his PhD degree was in Applied Computing from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE, São José dos Campos, Brazil, 1993). In 2007 he made a Postdoctoral stay of six months at IMPA, and in 2017 two months with the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou) under the President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI).

Since 2003 he has been a full professor at the Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil. He has held a "Huashan Scholar" position at Xidian University, Xi'an, China, since 2019. He was the University Vice-Chancellor for Research, Graduate Courses, and Innovation from January 2016 to January 2020. Currently licensed from Universidade Federal de Alagoas since May 2020, he is a Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

After serving as Associate Editor for over five years, Prof. Frery was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters from 2014 to 2018. Since 2015 he has been one of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Distinguished Lecturers. In 2018 he received the IEEE GRSS Regional Leader Award. Since 2019 he has served as AdCom (Advisory Committee) member for this Society, in charge of Future Publications, Plagiarism, and Regional Symposia until 2022, and as Vice-President for Publications since 2023.

His research interests are data visualization, statistical computing, and stochastic modelling, with signal and image processing and networks applications.