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Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. He also holds an adjunct position at the School of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center. He joined UH in August 1997 after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ioannis earned his B.Sc. in physics at the University of Athens in Greece, his M.Sc. in computer science from Northeastern University and his Ph. D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the founder and director of the Computational Biomedicine Lab. His research interests include cardiovascular informatics, biomedical image analysis, biometrics, computer vision, and pattern recognition.

Dr. Kakadiaris is the recipient of a number of awards, including the NSF Early Career Development Award, Schlumberger Technical Foundation Award, UH Computer Science Research Excellence Award, UH Enron Teaching Excellence Award, and the James Muller Vulnerable Plaque Young Investigator Price. His research has been featured on Discovery Channel, National Public Radio, KPRC NBC News, KTRH ABC News, and KHOU CBS News.

  1. Education
  2. Appointments
  3. Mentoring and Supervision
  4. Evidence of Student Learning
  5. Honors and Awards
  6. Service to the Department, College, and University
  7. Service to the Profession/Academic Discipline

1. Education

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2. Appointments

2011 -- present
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor, Departments of Computer Science, ECE, and Biomedical Engineering, U. of Houston (UH), Houston, TX
2011
Adjunct Member, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University, Houston
2008
Director, Methodist Hospital Research Institute-UH-Weill Cornell Medical College, Institute for Biomedical Imaging Sciences (IBIS) (position rotates annually)
2008 -- present
Member, Steering Committee, Center for the Mathematical Biosciences, UH
2007 -- 2008
Member, Steering Committee, IBIS
2007
Chairman, Steering Committee, IBIS (position rotates annually)
2006 -- 2011
Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor, Computer Science, ECE, and Biomedical Engineering, UH
2006 -- present
Adjunct Professor, School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
2005 -- present
Director and Founder, Computational Biomedicine Lab, UH
2005 -- present
Member, Southwest Public Safety Technology Center, UH
2003 -- 2006
Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and ECE, UH
2003 -- 2006
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
2003 -- 2006
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
2003 -- present
Member, Gulf Coast Consortia
2002 -- present
Member, W.M. Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology
2002 -- present
Director, Division of Bioimaging and Biocomputation, Institute for Digital Informatics and Analysis, UH
2000 -- 2002
Interim Director, Virtual Environments Research Institute (VERI), UH
2000 -- 2002
Thrust Leader, Bioimaging and Biocomputation, VERI, UH
2000 -- 2002
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
1999 -- 2003
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
1999 -- present
Member, Texas Learning and Computation Center, UH
1998 -- 2000
Coordinator of External Relations, VERI, UH
1997 -- 2005
Director and Founder, Visual Computing Lab, UH
1997 -- 2003
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UH
1996 -- 1997
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia, PA
1991 -- 1996
Research Fellow, Department of Computer and Information Science, UPENN
1990 -- 1991
Research Assistant, Biological Knowledge Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Northeastern University (NU), Boston, MA
1990
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, NU
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3. Mentoring and Supervision

Research Assistant Professor Advisor of:
  1. M. Mavroforakis (February 2009 - present)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Athens, Greece
  2. U. Kurkure (December 2008 - present)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Houston, Houston, TX
  3. Z. Zeng (October 2008 - June 2010)
    Ph.D. Institute: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
    Current Position: Senior Scientist, Affectiva Inc., Waltham, MA
Postdoc Advisor of:
  1. E. Zacharia (February 2011 - present)
    Ph.D. Institute: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  2. C. Zhao (February 2011 - August 2011)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  3. D.R. Chittajallu (January 2011 - May 2011)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Houston, Houston, TX
  4. G. Evangelopoulos (November 2010 - present)
    Ph.D. Institute: National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  5. X. Zhao (October 2010 - present)
    Ph.D. Institute: Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Paris, France
  6. U. Kurkure (June 2008 - November 2008)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Houston, Houston, TX
    Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, UH, Houston, TX
  7. B. Efraty (May 2008 - present)
    Ph.D. Institute: Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
  8. A. Santamaria-Pang (January 2008 - August 2008)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Houston, Houston, TX
    Current Position: Image Analysis Scientist, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY
  9. H.E. Abd El Munim (December 2007 - July 2008)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Louisville, KY
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Computers and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
  10. S. Tan (June 2007 - May 2010)
    Ph.D. Institute: Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shannxi Province, China
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland, MD
  11. G. Brunner (May 2007 - July 2009)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  12. T.S. Bildea (August 2005 - September 2006)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
    Current Position: Senior Scientist Consultant for PROS, Brasov, Romania
  13. I. Konstantinidis (August 2002 - August 2005)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    Current Position: Research Development Officer, Texas Learning and Computation Center, UH, Houston, TX
  14. C. Uehara (July 2002 - June 2004)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Houston, Houston, TX
    Current Position: Software Engineer, Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, Atlanta, GA
  15. C. Williams (March 2002 - October 2003)
    Ph.D. Institute: Ohio State University, OH
    Current Position: Sr. Scientist, Siemens Molecular Imaging, Hoffman Estates, IL
  16. L. Shen (August 2001 - July 2002)
    Ph.D. Institute: Zhongshan University, China
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
  17. K. Sarh (January 2001 - April 2001)
  18. G. Martinez (July 2000 - June 2002)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Hannover, Germany
    Current Position: Professor, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica
  19. D. Chen (January 2000 - December 2000) Co-Advisor: R. Bowen Loftin
    Ph.D. Institute: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
    Current Position: Computer Scientist, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
Researcher Associate Advisor of:
  1. J.-O. Ocegueda-Gonzalez, Face Recognition, 2010 - 2011 M.Sc Institute: Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT), Guanajuato, Mexico
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student at CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico
  2. G. Christakos, Face Recognition, 2009 - 2010 B.Sc Institute: University of Greece, Athens, Greece
    Current Position: Consultant, Accenture, Greece
Ph.D. Thesis Advisor of:
  1. P. Moutafis, Face Recognition, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, May 2016 (Expected)
  2. B. Almogahed, Cardiovascular Risk Screening, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, May 2015 (Expected)
  3. E. Bilgazyev, Face Recognition, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, August 2013 (Expected). Co-Advisor: S. Shah
  4. Y. Le Hai, Learning-Based Segmentation, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, August 2013 (Expected)
  5. P. Hernandez, Segmentation of Tubular Structures, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, May 2013 (Expected)
  6. D. Chu, Face Recognition, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, May 2013 (Expected).
  7. R. Yalamanchilli, Learning-Based Segmentation, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, December 2012 (Expected)
  8. G. Mendizabal Ruiz, Computational methods for the analysis of IVUS data, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, May 2012 (Expected)
  9. D.R. Chittajallu, Random Field Models for the Segmentation of Medical Images: Application to Coronary Artery Calcium Detection in Non-Contrast CT Data, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, December 2010
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, CBL, UH
  10. U. Kurkure, Computational Methods for Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Image Analysis, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2008
    Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, CBL, UH
  11. G. Toderic, 3D-aided 2D Face Recognition, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2007
    Current Position: Software Engineer, Video Content Analysis, Google Inc.
  12. A. Santamaria-Pang, Morphological Reconstruction of Neurons from Optical Imaging, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2007
    Current Position: Image Analysis Scientist, GE Global Research, NY
  13. S. O'Malley, Computational Methods for Contrast-Enhanced IntravasculAr Ultrasound Sequence Analysis, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2007
    Current Position: Software Engineer, Google Inc.
  14. M. Bello, Learning-based Segmentation Framework for Gene Expression Patterns in the Mouse Brain, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2006
    Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, GE Healthcare, WI
  15. A.N. Bandekar, A Unified Knowledge-based Segmentation Framework for Medical Images, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2006
    Current Position: Research Scientist, Visigen, Inc., Houston, TX
  16. A. Pednekar, Cardiac Image Analysis: Morphology, Function, and Dynamics, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2003
    Current Position: MR Clinical Scientist, Philips Healthcare, Cleveland, OH
  17. C. Barron, Human Motion Tracking Using a Monocular Camera, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2003
    Current Position: Professor, CIMAT, Mexico
Ph.D. Thesis Co-Advisor of:
  1. K. Tran, Human Activity Recognition, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, August 2013 (Expected). Primary Advisor: S. Shah
  2. X. Yan, Surveillance, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2013 (Expected). Primary Advisor: S. Shah
  3. C. Harding, Multi-sensory Investigation of Geoscientific Data: Adding Touch and Sound to 3D Visualization and Modeling, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2001. Primary Advisor: Prof. Loftin
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
M.Sc. Thesis Advisor of:
  1. O.C. Avila-Montes, Segmentation of the Thoracic Aorta in Non-contrast Cardiac CT Images, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, August 2011
  2. M. Fang, 3D/4D Facial Expression Analysis, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, May 2011
    Current Position: Software Development Engineer, Amazon Corporate LLC
  3. A. Profitt, Landmark Detection, Dept. of Mathematics, UH, May 2011. Co-Advisor: M. Papadakis
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
  4. E. Sgouritsa, Computer-Aided Planning for Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, May 2010
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
  5. D.R. Chittajallu, Computational Tools for Computer-Aided Breast Reconstructive Surgery, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Houston, 2007
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, CBL, UH, Houston, TX
  6. A. Santamaria-Pang, Automatic Three-Dimensional Morphological Reconstruction of Neurons, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2007
  7. J.R. Thigpen, Photometric Calibration for Quantitative Spectral Microscopy Under Transmitted Illumination, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2007
  8. S.M. O'Malley, Computational Methods for Contrast-Enhanced Intravascular Ultrasound Sequence Analysis, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2007
  9. M. Murtuza, Three-Dimensional Biometrics: Using data from the nose and/or the ear, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2006
    Current Position: Senior Software Developer, PROS Revenue Management, Houston, TX
  10. M.O. Bello, Learning Base Segmentation Framework for Tissue Images Containing Gene Expression Data, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2006
  11. A.N. Bandekar, A Unified Knowledge-Based Segmentation Framework for Medical Images, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2006
  12. S. Urban, Automatic Reconstruction of Dendrite Morphologies from Optical Sections of Living Fluorescently Labeled Neurons, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2005
    Current Position: Associate Scientist, PROS Revenue Management, Houston, TX
  13. J. Liang, Eye Detection and Face Recognition: Comparison of Algorithms, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2005
    Current Position: Software Developer, NRG Energy, Houston, TX
  14. N. Vajramushti, Efficient 3D Object Retrieval Using Depth Images, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2004
    Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, Nokia, San Diego, CA
  15. G. Passalis, Three-dimensional Face Recognition, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2004
    Current Position: Senior Researcher at Aventurine SA, Athens, Greece
  16. K. Andersson, Interpolation of Volumetric Data for Volume Visualization, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2002
    Current Position: Consultant, Netlight, Sweden
  17. E. Shafer, A Development Toolkit for OpenCV Using Microsoft DirectShow, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2001
    Current Position: President and CEO, Click and Create, Houston, TX
  18. W.H. Volpi, Comparison of Interpolation Methods for Volume Rendering, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2001
  19. J. Park-Jeong, Creating Animations for Chemical Engineering Teaching Modules, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2001
  20. K. Nagabhushan, Object Tracking in Compressed Video Sequences, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2000
    Current Position: Principal Engineer, Enseo, Dallas, TX
  21. S. Duan, Implementation of a Motion Retargetting System, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 1999
  22. X. Zhu, Visualization of DPPC Membrane Modules, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 1999
Honors Thesis Advisor of:
  1. M. Zakariyya, Analysis of Dendritic Spine Morphology in 3D Microscopy Images}, BSc thesis (Honors), Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UH, 2010 - present
  2. V. Zavaletta, Fuzzy Connectedness Segmentation: Performance Evaluation, BSc thesis (Honors), Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2002
    Current Position: Research Fellow, Dept. of Radiology, Mayo Clinic
Undergraduate Advisor of:
  1. F. Zahed, Face Recognition, Dept. of Biology, UH, 2009 - present
  2. D. Chu, Bibsync: A Collaborative Bibliography Tool, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2008
    Current Position: PhD Student, UH
  3. Y. Lu. Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2005
International Internship Advisor of:
  1. C. Huang (Southeast University, China), Face Recognition, 2010-2012
  2. V. Christlein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Face Recognition, 2010-2011
    Current Position: Diploma Student, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  3. M. Meyer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), Face Recognition, 2010-2011
    Current Position: Diploma Student, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  4. C. Wang (Ecole Centrale de Paris, France), Face Recognition, 2010
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
  5. G. Singh (IIT Patna, India), Eye Glasses Detection, 2010
    Current Position: Undergraduate student, IIT Patna, India
  6. P. Balanca (Ecole Centrale de Paris, France), Heart Segmentation in CT Images, 2009
    Current Position: M.Sc. Student, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
  7. J. Arcos-Argoty (Antioquia School of Engineering and CES University, Colombia), Cardiac MRI, 2009
    Current Position: Clinical Studies Coordinator, Fundación Centro Médico COMETA, Pasto, Colombia
  8. C. Mavroforakis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), Geometric SVMs, 2008
    Current Position: Graduate Student, Boston University
  9. O.C. Avila-Montes (Antioquia School of Engineering, Colombia), Automated Detection and Quantification of Calcifications in the Ascending and Descending Aorta in Non-Contrast Cardiac CT Images, 2007
    Current Position: M.Sc. Student, UH, Houston, TX
  10. S. Demirtas, IVUS Image Segmentation, 2005
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  11. B. Walsh, Online Morphological Reconstruction of Neurons, 2005
    Current Position: Financial Engineer - OPS Integration Development, RBS Global Banking and Markets, UK
  12. J.A.V. Muriel (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Campus de la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), 2003, 2004
Internship Advisor of:
  1. R. Gentry, Face Recognition, 2011
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, Houston, TX
  2. C. Chaleva-Ntina, Segmentation, 2011
    Current Position: M.Sc. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, Houston, TX
  3. P. Kulkarni, Face Recognition, 2010
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH, Houston, TX
  4. D. Safin, Heart Segmentation, 2010
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Mathematics, UH, Houston, TX
  5. I. Jegdic, Heart Segmentation in CT Images, 2009
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Mathematics, UH, Houston, TX
  6. D. de la Rosa-Pohl, Segmentation, 2003
    Current Position: Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH, Houston, TX
Research Experience for Undergraduates Advisor of:
  1. R. Rabsatt, Facial Landmark Detection with Online Learning, 2011
    Current Position: Undergraduate Student, Prairie View A & M University, TX
  2. R. Gentry, Face Recognition, 2010
    Current Position: Ph.D. Student, UH, Houston, TX
  3. N. Waynesboro, Image Segmentation, 2010
    Current Position: Undergraduate student, Coastal Carolina University, SC
  4. T. Tisdall-Yamada, Image Analysis for Human Detection, 2009
    Current Position: Undergraduate student, University of Hartford, CT
  5. S. Vanderworth, Lymph Scan Image Registration, 2009
    Current Position: M.Sc. Student, University of Texas, Austin, TX
  6. B.E. Morales-Quinones, Automatic Detection of the Inferior Boundary of the Heart in Non-Contrast Cardiac CT Data Using Dynamic Programming, 2008
    Current Position: Senior, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
  7. S. Wood, Face Recognition, 2008
  8. J. Browning, Face Recognition, 2007
  9. Y. Borisova, Automatic Heart Start/End Annotation, 2007
    Current Position: SAP BASIS Administrator, Centerpoint Energy, Houston, TX
  10. C. Ayala, Cardiovascular Informatics, 2006
  11. L. Tran, Biometrics: 3D-THERMO CAM for Multi-Modal Face Recognition, 2006
  12. M. deLisi, Cardiovascular Informatics, 2005
    Current Position: M.Sc. Student, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  13. J. Seblak, Face Recognition, 2005
  14. M.A. Kontopoulos, Outreach Video Production, 2005
    Current Position: Graduate student, Dept. of Design and Media Arts, UCLA
  15. P.N. Saldanha, 3D Face Recognition, 2004
    Current Position: RF Engineering Consultant, Ericsson, Inc.
Research Experience for High School Students Advisor of:
  1. J. Niu (Houston Science Club), Medical Image Annotation, 2009
    Current Position: High School Student, Bellaire Senior High School, Bellaire, TX
  2. C. Rapp (Houston Science Club), Recruiting Applications for the iPhone, 2009
    Current Position: High School Student, St. John's School, Houston, TX
  3. S. Subramanian (Houston Science Club), From Color to Sketch, 2008
    Current Position: Undergraduate Student, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
  4. Z. L'Anglois (Conroe ISD), Surveillance Simulation, 2008
  5. S. Messina, Surveillance Simulation, 2008
    Current Position: Undergraduate Student, UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
  6. N. Ogah (Houston Science Club), 2007
    Current Position: Undergraduate Student, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  7. A. Corrington (Houston Science Club), Heart 2 Heart Webpage on Heart Disease, 2006
    Current Position: Undergraduate Student, Rice University, Houston, TX
  8. T. Fofanova (Academy of Science and Technology, College Park High School), Cardiovascular Informatics, 2006
    Current Position: Undergraduate Student, Rice University, Houston, TX
Ph.D. Thesis Committee Member for:
  1. R. Wang, Cryo-Electron Tomography of Human Blood Platelets, Baylor College of Medicine, 2012 (Expected). Advisor: W. Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine)
  2. X. Wu, A Discriminative Framework for Screening Thyroid Cytological Sample Using Multispectral Data, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2011. Advisor: S. Shah
  3. B. Hu, Laser Multi-spectral Diffuse Scatter Confocal Microscopy, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH, 2010. Advisor: H. Le
  4. C.-S. Chen, An Investigation of Density-based Spatial Data Mining Techniques, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2011 (Expected). Advisor: C.F. Eick
  5. C. Sun, Preserving the Decision Boundary Through Data Selection for Support Vector Machines, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2007. Advisor: R. Vilalta
  6. N. Sun, Bio-heat Modeling of Peripheral Vascular Function and Applications, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2006. Advisor: I. Pavlidis
  7. C.R. Booth, Developing and Applying Tools For Data Acquisition In Electron Cryomicroscopy, Baylor College of Medicine, 2005. Advisor: W. Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine)
    Current Position: Project Manager, Gatan Inc., Pleasanton, CA
  8. J. Feng, Tissue Growth in 3D: A New Computational Model That Integrates Cell Heterogeneity and Diffusional Limitations of Nutrients and/or Growth Factors and its Parallel Implementation, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH, 2005. Advisor: P. Markenscoff
  9. S. Mani, A Parallel Computational Model for Growth of Tissues with Multiple Types of Cells, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH, 2002. Advisor: P. Markenscoff
  10. B.B. Youssef, Cell Proliferation and Migration: 3-D Modeling using Cellular Automata, Development of a parallel algorithm and its implementation on an IBM SP2, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH, 1999. Advisor: P. Markenscoff
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
M.Sc. Thesis Committee Member for:
  1. M. Wendt, Segmentation of Crystalline Lens in Photorefraction Video, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2008. Advisor: S. Shah
    Current Position: Laboratory Manager, College of Optometry, UH, Houston, TX
  2. J.R. Thigpen, Photometric Calibration for Quantitative Spectral Microscopy Under Transmitted Illumination, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2007. Advisor: S. Shah
    Current Position: Owner/Lead Software Engineer, Unit of Work, LLC
  3. B. Varughese, Qunatifying Video Recordings of Neonatal Seizures by Regularized Optical Flow Methods, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH, 2004. Advisor: N. Karayiannis
  4. C. Manohar, Extraction of Superficial Vasculature in Thermal Imaging, Dept. of Computer Science, UH, 2004. Advisor: I. Pavlidis
Ph.D. External Reader for:
  1. A. Katouzian, Quantifying Atherosclerosis; IVUS Imaging For Lumen Border Detection And Plaque Characterization. Columbia University, 2011. Advisor: A. Laine
  2. P. Yan, Cardiac Motion Analysis from Echocardiography, Yale University, 2007. Advisor: J.S. Duncan
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Diagnostic Radiology, Yale, New Haven, CT
  3. G. Hamarneh, Towards Intelligent Deformable Models for Medical Image Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology, 2001
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Faculty Mentor for:
  1. High School Science Club http://www.highschoolscienceclub.org
Visiting Scholars
  1. January 14, 2011 - January 23, 2011: Prof. Theoharis Theoharis, Dept. of Informatics, University of Athens, Greece
  2. December 15, 2009 - December 23, 2009: Prof. Nikos Paragios, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Ecole Centrale de Paris, Paris, France
  3. October 15, 2009 - November 16, 2009: Dr. Stefanos Zafeiriou, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
  4. January 1, 2003 - May 31, 2003: Prof. Tomas Gustavvson (Head of the Image Analysis Group), on sabbatical from the Dept. of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden
  5. September 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003: Prof. Theoharis Theoharis, on sabbatical from the Dept. of Informatics, University of Athens, Greece
  6. April 9, 2002 - April 17, 2002: Dr. Anders Sundin, Human Motion Simulation Area Leader, National Institute for Working Life, Goeteborg, Sweden
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4. Evidence of Student Learning

Mentee Awards
2011
D. Chu, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association (NSMAA)
Eckhard Pfeiffer Alumni Scholarship, UH
2011
Y. Le Hai, NSMAA Eckhard Pfeiffer Alumni Scholarship, UH
2011
C. Chaleva-Ntina, Travel Award to attend 2011 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop, Boston, MA
2011
E. Zacharia, Computational Cancer Biology Fellow, Keck Center
2011
O.C. Avila-Montes, NIH-sponsored Travel Award to attend International Symposium
on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2011
2010
D.R. Chittajallu, UHCS Best Overall Ph.D. Research, UH
2010
D. Chu, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH
2010
M. Fang, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH
2010
E. Sgouritsa, Travel Award for the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI
2010
E. Sgouritsa, UHCS Best M.Sc. Thesis, UH
2009
B. Efraty, Selected to attend the prestigious International Computer Vision Summer School, Sicily
2009
D. Chu, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH
2009
M. Fang, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH
2009
J. Niu, Houston Science Club Presentation Award
2009
E. Sgouritsa, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH
2009
E. Sgouritsa, Hellenic Professional Society of Texas Scholarship, Houston, TX
2008
O.C. Avila-Montes, honorific mention for her B.Sc. thesis Automated detection and
quantification of calcifications in the ascending and descending aorta in non-contrast
cardiac CT images, Columbia
2008
D. Chu, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH
2008
D. Chu, UH Asian Alumni Association Scholarship
2008
M. Fang, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH
2008
K. Ghagada, Nanobiology Fellow, Keck Center
2008
S. Subramanian, 3rd place Houston Science Club Poster Award
2007
S. O'Malley, Student Paper Contest Finalist at the ICASSP 2007 for the paper Image-based
frame gating of IVUS pullbacks: a surrogate for ECG
2006
U. Kurkure, UH Computer Science Scholarship Award
2006
S. O'Malley, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Award
2006
G. Toderici, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Award
2005
U. Kurkure, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Award
2005
S. O'Malley, UH Computer Science Best Software Award
2004
M. Bello, UHCS NuView Scholarship
2004
M. Bello, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Award
2004
M. Bello, W. M. Keck Predoctoral Fellowships in Computational and Structural Biology
2004
S. O'Malley, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2004
C. Uehara, W. M. Keck Predoctoral Fellowships in Computational and Structural Biology
2003
A. Pednekar, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Achievement Award
2002
C. Barron, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Achievement Award
2002
C. Uehara, National Library of Medicine (NLM) Fellow, Keck Center
2002
M. Baker, National Library of Medicine (NLM) Fellow, Keck Center
2002
A. Pednekar, 3rd place UH NSM Alumni Association Student Challenge Award
2002
A. Pednekar, UH Sigma Xi Poster Award
2002
V. Zavaletta, UH Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Poster Award
2002
V. Zavaletta, UH Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis Award, Honor College
2001
C. Barron, Exxon/Mobil Foundation Best Ph.D. Student Award, UH Department of
Computer Science
2000
C. Harding, Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the Soc. of Exploration Geophysists
(SEG) / Calgary International Exposition and 70th Annual Meeting, Calgary, Canada
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5. Honors and Awards

2011
Keynote Speaker, Conference on Challenges and Solutions in Medicine in the 21st Century,
Houston, TX
2011
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor, UH
2011
Best-Reviewed Paper, International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2011
2010
Keynote Speaker, Conference on Challenges and Solutions in Medicine in the 21st Century,
Houston, TX
2010
Keynote Speaker, XI Mexican Symposium on Computer Aided Surgery and Medical Image Analysis
MEXCAS 2010, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico
2010
Keynote Speaker, 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, NV
2010
Outstanding Reviewer Award, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
San Fransisco, CA
2010
Invited Speaker, Fields Insitute, Toronto, Canada
2010
Heart Disease Awareness Night Honoree, Houston, TX
2009
Keynote Speaker, 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Guadalajara, Mexico
2009
Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Computational and Information Sciences,
University of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX
2008
Keynote Speaker, Pumps and Pipes 2, Houston, TX
2008
Keynote Speaker, 8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE),
Athens, Greece
2008
Keynote Speaker, 25th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston
Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Houston, TX
2007
First Place, Face Recognition Vendor Test (3D Shape Category)
2007
Keynote Speaker, 6th Annual International Cardiology Congress, Athens, Greece
2007
Keynote Speaker, International Conference VipIMAGE - I ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on
Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal
2007
Keynote Speaker, AIP Conference on Data Mining, Systems Analysis and Optimization in Biomedicine,
Gainesville, FL
2007
Keynote Speaker, 3rd Annual Workshop in Interdisciplinary Computational Science, Houston, TX
2006
Eckhard Pfeiffer Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, UH
2006
Best Poster Award (1st Place), International Greek Biotechnology Forum, Athens, Greece
2006
Best Poster Award (1st Place), 2nd Hellenic Congress of Atherosclerosis, Athens, Greece
2006
Keynote Speaker, 5th Annual International Cardiology Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006
Keynote Speaker, 23rd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston
Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Houston, TX
2004
Keynote Speaker, 14th Annual Keck Center Research Conference, Houston, TX
2003
Research Excellence Award, Dept. of Computer Science, UH
2003
UH Teaching Excellence Award, UH
2003
AEHA James E. Muller Vulnerable Plaque New Investigator Prize for Clinical Research
2003
Keynote Speaker, 13th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Goteborg, Sweden
2002
IEEE Distinguished Visitor
2002
President, University of Houston Chapter of Sigma Xi
2002
Keynote Speaker, XI International Conference on Computing, Mexico City, Mexico
2002
Keynote Speaker, AMDO'02 - IAPR Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and
Deformable Objects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2001
Keynote Speaker, International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization
and Computer Vision, Plzen, Czech Republic
2000
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
1998
Schlumberger Technical Foundation Award, Houston, TX
1991
Gerondelis Foundation Fellowship, Boston, MA
1989
Bodosakis Foundation Fellowship, Athens, Greece
1989
Highest honors for top graduating student at the Dept. of Physics, U. of Athens, Greece
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6. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

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7. Service to the Department, College, and University

Committees: UH Computer Science Department
  • Standing Committees
    • Awards Committee (2004-2008)
    • Chair Search Committee (2009-2010)
    • Curriculum Committee (1998-2002, Chairman: 1999)
    • Equipment Committee (2004-2006)
    • Executive Committee (2004-2006, 2008-2011, Chairman: 2010)
    • Faculty Search Committee (2001)
    • Graduate Studies Committee (2009-2011)
    • Industrial Advisory Board (2002-2004)
    • Multimedia Classroom Committee (1998)
    • Numerical Analysis Qualifying Examination Committee (1999-2003)
    • Scholarship Committee (1999-2001)
    • Seminars' Organizer (1997-1999)
    • Software Engineering Qualifying Examination Committee (1997-1999)
  • Ad Hoc Committees
    • Committee for the update of the handouts & web site of the department (1998)
    • Committee on the purchase of computers for the Multimedia Classroom (1998)
    • Committee on the purchase of Portable Projectors (1999)
  • Faculty Coordinator
    • COSC 6397 Visualization: Course coordinator for Prof. Theoharis (Fall 2002)
    • COSC 6372 Computer Graphics: Course coordinator for Prof. Theoharis (Fall 2002)
    • COSC 6397 Biomedical Image Analysis: Course coordinator for Prof. Gustavvson (Spring 2003)
Committees: College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  • Dean Search Committee (2010)
  • Policy Committee (2008-2010)
  • Strategic Planning Committee (2008)
  • Space Committee (2011-2012)
  • Teaching Excellence Committee (2003-2008, 2010-2011, Chairman: 2005,2011)
Committees: College of Engineering
  • Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011)
Committees: University of Houston
  • Faculty Advisory Board for the Office of the UH Vice President of Research (2009-2011)
  • Personal Access Liaison (2011)
  • Teaching Excellence Award Mentor, Center for Teaching Excellence (2010-2011)
  • Teaching Excellence Committee (2004-2007, 2005-2006 - Chair)
  • The Esther Farfel Award Committee (2005-2007) (The Esther Farfel Award is the highest accolade bestowed by the University of Houston in recognition of faculty excellence)
Administrative Roles
2011
UH Program Representative, Gulf Coast Consortia - Computational Cancer Biology \>\> Training Program, Houston
2011
Program Director, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Computational Science, \>\> Dept. of Computer Science, University of Houston
2008
Director, Methodist Hospital Research Institute-UH-Weill Cornell Medical College, Institute for Biomedical Imaging Sciences (IBIS) (position rotates annually)
2007 -- 2009
Member, Steering Committee, IBIS
2007
Chairman, Steering Committee, IBIS (position rotates annually)
2005 -- present
Director, Computational Biomedicine Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, \>\>UH
2002 -- present
Director, Division of Bioimaging and Biocomputation, Institute for Digital Informatics and Analysis, UH
2000 -- 2002
Director, Virtual Environments Research Institute, UH
1997 -- 2005
Director, Visual Computing Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, UH
Faculty Advisor to Student Organization
2004 -- present
Faculty Advisor to the First American Medical Student Association Premedical Chapter in Houston
2002 -- 2003
Faculty Advisor to Houston AI and Robotics Society (HAIRS)
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8. Service to the Profession/Academic Discipline

Membership in Professional Societies
2005
Alliance for Nanohealth
2002
American Heart Association
1989
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)       -- SIGGRAPH
2006
Biomedical Engineering Society Houston Industry Chapter
2002
British Machine Vision Association
1989
Hellenic Society of Scientists in Computer and Information Science
1989
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) -- Senior Member
1989
      -- IEEE Computer Society             Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2002
      -- IEEE Communications Society
2002
      -- IEEE Signal Processing Society
1999
International Society for Computer Aided Surgery
2002
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
2005
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society
2006
New York Academy of Sciences
2002
Sigma Xi
2003
Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication
2000
Society of Automotive Engineers
2000
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
2002
The Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology
2000
Tissue Engineering Society
Technical Committee Co-Chair
2006 -- 2008
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society on Computer and Robot Vision
Curriculum Development
  • Focus Group Chair
    • Focus group on Graphics and Visualization, Computing Curricula 2001, IEEE Computer Society
  • External Advisory Board Member
    • Computer Vision Research Program, University of Nevada Reno, NV (2000-2004)
    • Health Informatics Advisory Committee, Dept. of Health Informatics, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Texas-Houston (1998)
Conference Involvement
  • Keynote Speaker
    • July 6, 2011: Conference on Challenges and Solutions in Medicine in the 21st Century, Houston, TX
    • December 1, 2010: 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, NV
    • September 24, 2010: XI Mexican Symposium on Computer Aided Surgery and Medical Image Analysis - MEXCAS 2010, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico
    • July 8, 2010: Conference on Challenges and Solutions in Medicine in the 21st Century, Houston, TX
    • November 16, 2009: 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Guadalajara, Mexico
    • May 1, 2009: WSEAS International Conference on Computational and Information Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX
    • December 8, 2008: Pumps and Pipes 2, Houston, TX
    • October 8, 2008: 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Athens, Greece
    • February 7, 2008: 25th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Houston, TX
    • November 24, 2007: 6th Annual International Cardiology Congress, Athens, Greece
    • October 17, 2007: International Conference VipIMAGE - I ECCOMAS, Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal
    • March 28, 2007: AIP Conference on Data Mining, Systems Analysis and Optimization in Biomedicine, Gainesville, FL
    • March 22-23, 2007: 3rd Annual Workshop on Interdisciplinary Computational Science, Houston, TX
    • November 16, 2006: 5th Annual International Cardiology Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece
    • February 9, 2006: 23rd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology , Houston, TX
    • October 8, 2004: 14th Annual Keck Center Research Conference, Houston, TX
    • June 29, 2003: 13th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Goteborg, Sweden
    • November 29, 2002: XI International Conference on Computing
    • November 21, 2002: AMDO'02 - IAPR Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
    • February 2, 2001: International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Plzen, Czech Republic
  • Conference Chair/Co-Chair
    • 4th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Chemistry (2003)
  • Workshop Chair/Co-Chair
    • IEEE Conference on utomatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) (2013)
    • IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision for Computer Games (CVCG) (2011)
  • Workshop Co-Organizer
    • CVII Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging(MICCAI), Toronto, Canada September 2011 (with Gozde Unal, Nassir Navab, and Milan Sonka)
    • CVII Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging(MICCAI), New York, NY September 2008 (with Gozde Unal, Nassir Navab, and Milan Sonka)
    • Pumps and Pipes, Houston, TX November 2007 (with Bill E. Kline and Alan B. Lumsden)
    • CVII Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (MICCAI), Copenhagen, Denmark October 2006 (with Greg Slabaugh and Allen Tannenbaum)
    • Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis (CVAMIA) and Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA) Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic May 2004 (with Milan Sonka and Jan Kybic)
    • Robotics and Computer Vision Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, October 2003
    • Symposium to Honor Prof. S. Lennart Johnsson's 60th Birthday, Houston, TX, December, 2004
    • TEXGRAPH'01: A Symposium on Computer Graphics & Computer Vision, Houston, TX, May 2001
    • Texas Systems Day, Houston, TX, October 2004
    • 2003 NSF PI Workshop on Robotics and Computer Vision, Las Vegas, NV, October 2003 (with H. Asada (MIT), C. Tomasi (Duke), and M. Zefran (UIC))
    • IEEE Human Motion Analysis and Synthesis, Hilton Head Island, SC, June, 2000 (with R. Sharma)
  • Program Chair/Co-Chair
    • Challenge Co-Organizer, Lumen + External Elastic Laminae Border Detection in IVUS Challenge (MICCAI) (2011)
    • Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic (2004)
    • IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision for Computer Games (CVCG) (2011)
    • IEEE 5th International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) (2008)
    • International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) (2011)
    • International Workshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (CVII)(2006,2008)
    • Pumps and Pipes, Houston, TX (2007-2011)
  • Demos Co-Chair
    • 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (2010)
    • IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, (2007)
  • Video Co-Chair
    • Video Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2005, 2006)
  • Publications Chair
    • IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (2005, 2006)
    • IEEE Nonrigid and Articulated Motion Workshop (1997)
  • Tutorial Co-Chair
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (2007)
  • Exhibits Chair
    • IEEE Virtual Reality '99 (1999)
  • Short Courses Co-Chair
    • IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision (2007)
  • Area Chair
    • IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (2011)
    • Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) (2008,2011)
  • Steering Committee Member
    • Biomedical Discovery for Large Scale Data Sets
    • International Vulnerable Patient Registry: US IVP Registry Steering Committee
    • MICCAI Workshop on Computing and Visualization for (Intra)Vascular Imaging (CVII 2011)
    • NSF Information and Data Management Workshop (IDM 2003)
    • SAE Digital Human Modeling Conference
  • Program Committee Member
    • ACM Computer Animation (2000-2002)
    • ACM International Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (2010)
    • ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (2004)
    • ACM SIGMM Workshop on Video Surveillance (2003)
    • AMBIENT International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies (2011)
    • Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
    • CGS Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2003)
    • CGS Computer Graphics International (2004, 2005)
    • CIPPRS International Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition (2008)
    • ECCV Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis Workshop (2004)
    • Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (2009, 2010)
    • IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) (2011, 2012)
    • IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (2003, 2005)
    • IASTED International Conference on Telehealth (2005)
    • IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (2004, 2005, 2006)
    • ICCV International Conference on Computer Vision (2011)
    • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2003)
    • IEEE Biometrics Symposium (2007, 2008)
    • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1998, 2000, 2009)
    • IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis Workshop (MMBIA) (2004-2009)
    • IEEE Human Motion Analysis (2000)
    • IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010)
    • IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (2008, 2011)
    • IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
    • IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) (2008)
    • IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (2008)
    • IEEE International NAISO Congress on Information Science Innovations (ISI 2001)
    • IEEE International Symposium on Bio-informatics and Biomedical Engineering (2000)
    • IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (2002)
    • IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion (2004)
    • IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis (2000)
    • IEEE Workshop on Camera Networks and Wide Area Scene Analysis (2011)
    • IEEE Workshop on Combined Research-Curriculum Development in Computer Vision (2001)
    • IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video (2005)
    • IEEE Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments (2005)
    • IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (2009, 2012)
    • IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (2002)
    • IEEE Workshop on Variational, Geometric & Level Set Methods (VLSM) (2005)
    • IJCB International Joint Conference on Biometrics (2011)
    • International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (2011)
    • International Conference on Pattern Recognition (2010)
    • International Symposium on Medical Simulation (2004)
    • International Symposium on Visual Computing (2000-2008, 2010)
    • ISI International NAISO Symposium on Information Science Innovations in Clinical Trials (2001)
    • Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) (2006-2009, 2011)
    • MICCAI International Workshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (CVII) (2006, 2008)
    • Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology (MIAAB) (2006-2009)
    • SPIE Biometrics Technology for Human Identification (2007, 2010, 2011)
    • SPIE Optics and Photonics - Wavelets and Sparsity XIV (2011)
    • SSVM International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (2007)
    • VISAPP International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (2008)
    • WSCG International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (2001-2006)
  • Tutorial Co-Organizer
    • 3D-Aided Face Recognition, International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Washington DC, October 11, 2011
    • Computing at the Intersection with Biomedical Imaging, IEEE Region 5 2002 Annual Technical Conference, Clear Lake, TX, April 19-21, 2002
  • Tutorial Speaker
    • 3D-Aided Face Recognition,International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2011
    • Image Processing for Volume Graphics, IEEE Visualization, 2000
    • Image Processing for Volume Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2001
  • Invited Speaker
    • April 21, 2011: National Student Research Forum, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
    • July 7, 2010: Conference on Challenges and Solutions in Medicine in the 21st Century, Houston, TX
    • September 3, 2009: Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology, Bethesda, MD
  • Doctoral Consortium Co-Organizer
    • International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Washington DC, 2011
  • Session Organizer
    • Sparsity in Face Recognition Wavelets and Sparsity XIV - part of SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference, San Diego, California, August 21-25, 2011
    • Image Processing 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN, September 2-6, 2009
    • Novel Biometrics IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, London, United Kingdom, September 5-7, 2007
    • Visual Computing The 10th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2001, Plzen, Czech Republic, February 4-8, 2002
    • Computing Curricula 2001 The 9th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Prague, Czech Republic, February 5-9, 2001
    • Medical Robotics Intelligent Space Systems & Robotics/Intelligent Medical Systems & Robotics Conference, Houston, TX, September 1-5, 2000
    • Human Motion and Posture Measurement SAE Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering, Hague, Netherlands, May 18-20, 1999
    • Learner-Centered Multimedia Explorations for the New Millennium 8th Annual Scholarship & Community Conference - The Next Generation: The Impact of Technology on Learning, University of Houston, October 7, 1998
  • Panelist
    • October 8, 2010: UH Computer Science PhD Research Showcase Event, University of Houston, Houston, TX
    • October 28, 2008: Reality Chat, University of Houston Bio-Research Career Information Day, Houston, TX
  • Senior Advisor
    • Smart Systems 2000, Houston, TX, September 6-8, 2000
  • Committee Member - Best Student Paper Award
    • IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (2011)
Editorial and Reviewer Work
  • Associate Editor
    2010 -- present
    Lecture Notes in Computer Vision and Biomechanics
    2010 -- present
    Journal of Biomedical Data Mining
    2010 -- present
    Machine Vision and Applications
    2009 -- present
    Annals of Biomedical Engineering
    2006 -- present
    International Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics
    2006 -- present
    Image and Vision Computing
    2004 -- present
    International Journal of Human Factors Modeling and Simulation (IJHFMS)
    2002 -- present
    International Journal Computación y Sistemas (CyS)
  • Editorial Board Member
    • Journal Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering
  • Guest Co-Editor
    • International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging Special Issue on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (Eds. G. Unal, I.A. Kakadiaris, Milan Sonka Nassir Navab), November 2009
    • IEEE Transaction of Information Technology in Biomedicine Special Issue on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (Eds. G. Unal, G. Slabaugh, I.A. Kakadiaris, A. Tannenbaum), February 2008
    • Machine Vision and Applications, Special Issue on Human Motion Analysis (Eds. I. Kakadiaris, R. Sharma, and M. Yeasin), May 2002
  • Reviewer for proposals
    • Center for Complexity Science (2007)
    • Greek Ministry for Education, Life Long Learning, and Religious Affairs (2010-2011)
    • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2000, 2006)
    • National Institutes of Health: BMIT (2007), BRP (2010)
    • National Library of Medicine (2010)
    • National Science Foundation (2000-2011)
    • Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong (2010)
    • Sam Houston State University (Internal Grant Program, 2008)
    • Swiss National Science Foundation (2011)
    • University of Houston, Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR) (1998, 2007, 2008-2010)
    • WWTF: Vienna Science and Technology Fund (2007)
    Training Grant Participation
    • Steering Committee
      • Biomedical Discovery for Large Scale Data Sets Steering Committee (2006-2009)
      • Computational Cancer Biology, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), 2010
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    9. Department Evaluator

    • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, San Antonio (2008)
    • Department of Computer Science, University of Tripoli, Greece (2011)
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    10. Tenure and Promotion Faculty Evaluator

    • Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    • Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
    • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, CA, USA
    • Institute of Computer Science, Crete, Greece
    • Rutgers University, NJ, USA
    • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
    • University of Athens, Athens, Greece
    • University of Crete, Crete, Greece
    • University of Houston - Downtown, Houston, TX, USA
    • University of Tennessee Health Science Center, TN, USA
    • West Virginia University, WV, USA
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