Rate My Professor Mario Parente

Mario Parente is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He serves as Director of the Remote Hyperspectral Observers (RHO) Group and is affiliated with the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL). His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2010, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2005, an M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering from the University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy, in 2003, and a B.S. in Telecommunication Engineering from the University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy, in 2001. Parente's research focuses on remote sensing of planetary and terrestrial surfaces and atmospheres, hyperspectral signal and image processing, machine learning, manifold learning, clustering, spectroscopy, physical and statistical modeling of light scattering phenomena, spectrometer signal calibration, simulation, and denoising. He contributes to advancements in pervasive sensing and communications through his work in the College of Engineering.