Matthew McCabe is a Professor of Remote Sensing and Director of the Climate and Livability Initiative at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D in Civil and Environmental Engineering in Australia, and held Post-Doctoral positions at Princeton University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the USA. Before coming to KAUST in 2012, Matthew was an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Prof. McCabe’s research explores multi-disciplinary issues at the intersection of water, food, climate and the environment. He is an international leader in the use of novel technologies for enhanced Earth observation, particularly around the use of Nanosatellites, UAVs, Multi-Sensor Platforms and Data Fusion. Prof McCabe has published more than 220 research papers and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher every year since 2019. He is the inaugural Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and was the recipient of the 2022 Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water and the 2023 Al-Kasabi award for Water Resources Engineering. In 2023, McCabe was the Mission Lead and Principal Investigator on the launch of the KAUST hyperspectral CubeSat.