Jocelyn Chanussot
Jocelyn Chanussot applies machine learning and data fusion to satellite imagery. As of October 2026, he is a professor at Grenoble INP, holds the AXA Chair of Remote Sensing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is an ELLIS Fellow. He received an M.Sc. from Grenoble INP in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Savoie University in 1998, then joined Grenoble INP as an assistant professor in 1999. He chaired the data fusion committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society from 2009 to 2011, and he became editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing in January 2011. The IEEE named him a Fellow in 2012, and Clarivate Analytics ranked him among the most influential researchers in the world in 2020.
- Works
- 1,109
- Citations
- 63,490
- h-index
- 118
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1995–1998
Degrees in Grenoble and Annecy
He receives an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Grenoble INP in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Savoie University in 1998.
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1999–2005
Assistant professor at Grenoble INP
He joins Grenoble INP in 1999 as an assistant professor and becomes an associate professor in 2005.
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2005–2011
Committee chair and journal editor
He serves as cochair of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's data fusion committee from 2005 to 2008 and as its chair from 2009 to 2011. He becomes editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing in January 2011.
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2006–2009
Chairing a machine learning workshop
He serves on the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2006 to 2008. He is program chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing in 2009.
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2011–2012
IEEE Fellow and a best paper
The IEEE names him a Fellow in 2012. He also receives the 2011 IEEE GRSS Symposium Best Paper Award.
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2018
CoSpace for land cover classification
He co-authors CoSpace, a common subspace learning method for land cover classification from hyperspectral and multispectral satellite images, and its preprint is first submitted to arXiv in 2018.
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2020
On Clarivate's influential researchers list
Clarivate Analytics ranks him on its list of the most influential researchers in the world in 2020.
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As of October 2026
An AXA chair in remote sensing
As of October 2026, he is a professor at Grenoble INP and holds the AXA Chair of Remote Sensing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an ELLIS Fellow in the ELLIS Unit Grenoble.
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- RSSS12 - Lecturer - J. Chanussot
- Jocelyn Chanussot - Wikipedia
- [1812.11501] CoSpace: Common Subspace Learning from Hyperspectral-Multispectral Correspondences
- Visiting professors among the most influential research scientists in the world | University of Iceland
- JOCELYN CHANUSSOT
- Jocelyn Chanussot | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems