Jón Atli Benediktsson received the Cand.Sci. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, in 1984, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is the president and rector of the University of Iceland, where he is a professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research interests are in image analysis, image processing, remote sensing, and biomedical analysis of signals. He has published extensively in these fields. Prof. Benediktsson is a highly cited researcher from 2018 (Clarivate Analysis) and received many awards for his research and publications. He was the 2011–2012 president of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing from 2003 to 2008. Prof. Benediktsson is currently the senior editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE. He is a co-founder of the biomedical start-up company Oxymap (www.oxymap.com). Prof. Benediktsson is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of SPIE, and a fellow of AAIA. He is a member of Academia Europea, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.