John P. Kerekes (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 1983, 1986, and 1989, respectively. From 1983 to 1984, he was a Member of the Technical Staff with the Space and Communications Group, Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA, USA, where he performed circuit design for communications satellites. From 1986 to 1989, he was a Graduate Research Assistant with the School of Electrical Engineering and the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing, Purdue University. From 1989 to 2004, he was a Technical Staff Member with the Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA. Since 2004, he has been with the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA, where he is currently a Research Professor. His research interests include the modeling and analysis of remote sensing system performance in pattern recognition and geophysical parameter retrieval applications. Dr. Kerekes is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He is a Senior Member of SPIE. From 1995 to 2004, he served as the Founding Chair for the Boston Section Chapter, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). From 2007 to 2010, he served as the Founding Chair for the Western New York Chapter, IEEE GRSS. He was the Co-General Chair of IGARSS 2008 held in Boston, MA, USA. From 2010 to 2015, he served on the GRSS Administrative Committee (AdCom). In 2017, he received the GRSS Outstanding Service Award. He is currently serving as the GRSS Chief Financial Officer.