He has interests is in environmental data analysis, high performance computing, sensor networks, image processing, data mining, machine learning, remote sensing and GIS. Prior to joining Masdar Institute, Dr. Marpu was a researcher at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. He was also a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Pavia, Italy working on developing advanced methods for hyperspectral data analysis. Dr. Marpu holds a PhD from Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Freiberg, Germany and MSc in Wireless Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.