Speakers

Paul Siqueira is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and is co-Director of the University’s Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL). In previous appointments, he has worked in the radar science and engineering section NASA’s Jet Laboratory, been a visiting scientist for the European Commission in Ispra, Italy, and a Bullard Fellow at Harvard’s forest research station in Massachusetts. His work within MIRSL is in the design, development and use of microwave remote sensing instruments for earth science applications. Professor Siqueira serves as an investigator in NASA’s programs for Carbon Monitoring Systems (CMS), the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) and the Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO). Professor Siqueira is the PI of the airborne SNOWWI instrument, a three-frequency InSAR and Scatterometer for measuring snow characteristics, and is the Ecosystems Lead for the NISAR mission that launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India on July 30, 2025.