Paco Dekker
Hoogleraar at TU Delft
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPaco Dekker is a leading researcher and professor in radar remote sensing with 11 years of academic and over a decade of mission-focused experience in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), bistatic SAR and interferometry. Based in Delft, he directs the TU Delft Space Institute and was recently appointed Hoogleraar after nearly a decade as universitair hoofddocent, reflecting a steady progression from research engineer to group leader at DLR and international academic posts. His background blends deep signal-processing expertise from a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering with hands-on mission leadership at DLR, giving him rare operational insight into translating SAR theory into spaceborne systems. Known for advancing bistatic SAR and interferometric techniques, he combines rigorous research with institutional leadership to shape European space science and education. Colleagues value his ability to bridge complex algorithm development and large-scale program management, and he often brings multidisciplinary teams together across Delft and industry partners.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts AmherstUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (14)
ocean10
sar10
simulation9
anaconda6
evaluator6
python6
colorbar6
matplotlib6
numba3
expression-evaluator3
pandas3
pydata2
numpy2
scipy2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
pakodekker/oceansar
Oct 2016 - Dec 2020
Ocean SAR Simulation Package
Contributions:83 commits, 23 PRs, 76 pushes in 4 years 2 months
oceansarsimulation
pakodekker/PracticalMachineLearningLopezDekker
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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