Biography

Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris is an Eckhard Pfeiffer 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

• Ptychion (B.S.) (1989), Physics, University of Athens, Greece
• M.Sc. (1991), Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
• PhD (1997) Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

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2. Appointments

2008 -- present

Member, Steering Committee, Center for the Mathematical Biosciences, U. of Houston (UH), Houston, TX

2008

Director, Methodist Hospital Research Institute-UH-Weill Cornell Medical College, Institute for Biomedical Imaging Sciences (IBIS) (position rotates annually)

2007 -- 2008

Member, Steering Committee, IBIS

2007

Chairman, Steering Committee, IBIS (position rotates annually)

2006 -- present

Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor, Computer Science, ECE, and Biomedical Engineering, UH

2006 -- present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Informatics, University of Texas, Health Information Sciences

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, Department of Health Informatics, University of Texas, Health Information Sciences

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, Department of Health Informatics, University of Texas, Health Information Sciences

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 - present)
   Ph.D. Institute: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Postdoc Advisor of:

1. U. Kurkure (June 2008 - November 2008)
   Ph.D. Institute: University of Houston, Houston, TX
   Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2. B. Efraty (May 2008 - present)
   Ph.D. Institute: Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
3. 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
4. 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 Univeristy, Cairo, Egypt
5. S. Tan (June 2007 - present)
   Ph.D. Institute: Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shannxi Province, China
6. G. Brunner (May 2007 - July 2009)
   Ph.D. Institute: University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
   Current Position: Postdoc, Baylor College of Meidicine, Houston, TX
7. T.S. Bildea (August 2005 - September 2006)
   Ph.D. Institute: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
   Current Position: Research Scientist - Computational Geneticist, Pioneer, Johnston, IA
8. 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
9. C. Uehara (July 2002 - June 2004)
   Ph.D. Institute: University of Houston, Houston, TX
   Current Position: Software Engineer, Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, Atlanta, GA
10. C. Williams (March 2002 - October 2003)\\
    Ph.D. Institute: Ohio State University, OH
    Current Position: Sr. Scientist, Siemens Molecular Imaging, Hoffman Estates, IL
11. G. Martinez (July 2000 - June 2002)
    Ph.D. Institute: University of Hannover, Germany
    Current Position: Professor, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica
12. L. Shen (August 2001 - July 2002)
    Ph.D. Institute: Zhongshan University, China
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
13. K. Sarh (January 2001 - April 2001)
14. 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

Ph.D. Thesis Advisor of:

1. D. Safin, Segmentation of Tubular Structures, Department of Computer Science, UH, August 2014 (Expected)
2. Y. Le Hai, Learning-Based Segmentation, Department of Computer Science, UH, August 2013 (Expected)
3. E. Ismailov, Face Recognition, Department of Computer Science, UH, August 2013 (Expected)
4. P. Hernandez, Segmentation of Tubular Structures, Department of Computer Science, UH, July 2013 (Expected)
5. D. Chu, Face Recognition, Department of Computer Science, UH, May 2013 (Expected)
6. E. Sgouritsa, Computer-Aided Planning for Endovascular Treatment of Aneurysms, Department of Computer Science, UH, December 2012 (Expected)
7. G. Mendizabal Ruiz, Analysis of Contrast-Enhanced Data, Department of Computer Science, UH, December 2012 (Expected)
8. M. Fang, Facial Expression Analysis, Department of Computer Science, UH, December 2012 (Expected)
9. R. Yalamanchilli, Learning-Based Segmentation, Department of Computer Science, UH, December 2012 (Expected)
10. D.R. Chittajallu, Computational Methods Aiding the Extraction of Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers from Non-Contrast CT Data, Department of Computer Science, UH, May 2010 (Expected)
11. U. Kurkure. Computational Methods for Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Image Analysis. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2008
    Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, CBL, UH
12. G. Toderici. 3D-aided 2D Face Recognition. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2007
    Current Position: Software Engineer (Video Content Analysis) / Google
13. A. Santamaria-Pang. Morphological Reconstruction of Neurons from Optical Imaging. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2007
    Current Position: Image Analysis Scientist, GE Global Research, NY
14. S. O'Malley. Computational Methods for Contrast-Enhanced IntravasculAr Ultrasound Sequence Analysis. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2007
    Current Position: Software Engineer, Google, Inc
15. M. Bello. Learning-based Segmentation Framework for Gene Expression Patterns in the Mouse Brain. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2006
    Current Position: Image Analysis Scientist, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY
16. A.N. Bandekar. A Unified Knowledge-based Segmentation Framework for Medical Images. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2006
    Current Position: Research Scientist, Visigen, Inc., Houston, TX
17. A. Pednekar. Cardiac Image Analysis: Morphology, Function, and Dynamics. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2003
    Current Position: MR Clinical Scientist, Philips Healthcare, Cleveland, OH
18. C. Barron. Human Motion Tracking Using a Monocular Camera. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2003 Posistion: Professor, CIMAT, Mexico

Ph.D. Thesis Co-Advisor of:

1. C. Harding. Multi-sensory Investigation of Geoscientific Data: Adding Touch and Sound to 3D Visualization and Modeling. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2001
   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, Learning-Based Segmentation, Department of Computer Science, UH, August 2010 (Expected)
2. D.R. Chittajallu. Computational Tools for Computer-Aided Breast Reconstructive Surgery. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2007
   Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Houston
3. M. Murtuza. Three-Dimensional Biometrics: Using data from the nose and/or the ear. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2006
   Current Position: Senior Software Developer, PROS Revenue Management, Houston, TX
4. S. Urban. Automatic Reconstruction of Dendrite Morphologies from Optical Sections of Living Fluorescently Labeled Neurons. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2005
   Current Position: Associate Scientist, PROS Revenue Management, Houston, TX
5. J. Liang. Eye Detection and Face Recognition: Comparison of Algorithms. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2005
   Current Position: Software Developer, NRG Energy, Houston, TX
6. N. Vajramushti. Efficient 3D Object Retrieval Using Depth Images. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2004
   Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, Nokia, San Diego, CA
7. G. Passalis. Three-dimensional Face Recognition. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2004
   Current Position: Video-Game Programmer/R&D at Aventurine S.A., Athens, Greece
8. D. de la Rosa-Pohl. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2003
   Current Position: Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
9. K. Andersson. Interpolation of Volumetric Data for Volume Visualization. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2002
   Current Position: Consultant, Netlight, Sweden
10. E. Shafer. A Development Toolkit for OpenCV Using Microsoft DirectShow. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2001
    Current Position: President and CEO, Click and Create, Houston, TX
11. W.H. Volpi. Comparison of Interpolation Methods for Volume Rendering. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2001
12. J. Park-Jeong. Creating Animations for Chemical Engineering Teaching Modules. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2001
13. K. Nagabhushan. Object Tracking in Compressed Video Sequences. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2000
    Current Position: Principal Engineer, Enseo, Dallas, TX
14. S. Duan. Implementation of a Motion Retargetting System. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 1999
15. X. Zhu. Visualization of DPPC Membrane Modules. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 1999

Undergraduate Advisor of:

1. D. Chu. Bibsync: A Collaborative Bibliography Tool. Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2008
   Current Position: PhD Student, UH
2. Y. Lu. Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2005
3. V. Zavaletta. Fuzzy Connectedness Segmentation: Performance Evaluation. BSc thesis (Honors), Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2002
   Current Position: Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic

International Internship Advisor of:

1. P. Balanca (Ecole Centrale de Paris, France), Heart Segmentation in CT Images, 2009
   Current Position: M.Sc. Student, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
2. J. Arcos Argoty (Antioquia School of Engineering and CES University, Colombia), Cardiac MRI, 2009
   Current Position: B.Sc. Student, Antioquia School of Engineering and CES University, Columbia
3. C. Mavroforakis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), Geometric SVMs, 2008
   Current Position: B.Sc. Student, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
4. 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, University of Houston, Houston, TX
5. S. Demirtas, IVUS Image Segmentation, 2005
   Current Position: Ph.D. Student, MIT, Cambridge, MA
6. B. Walsh, Online Morphological Reconstruction of Neurons, 2005
   Current Position: Financial Engineer - OPS Integration Development, RBS Global Banking and Markets, UK
7. J.A.V. Muriel (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Campus de la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), 2003, 2004

Internship Advisor of:

1. F. Zahed (University of Houston), 2009
   Current Position: Undergraduate student, University of Houston, TX
2. I. Jegdic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia), Heart Segmentation in CT Images, 2009
   Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Houston, TX

Research Experience for Undergraduates Advisor of:

1. T. Tisdall-Yamada, Image Analysis for Human Detection, 2009
   Current Position: Undergraduate student, University of Hartford, CT
2. S. Vanderworth, Lymph Scan Image Registration, 2009
   Current Position: Undergraduate student, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
3. 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
4. S. Wood, Face Recognition, 2008
5. J. Browning, Face Recognition, 2007
6. Y. Borisova, Automatic Heart Start/End Annotation, 2007
   Current Position: Associate Programmer Analyst, CenterPoint Energy
7. C. Ayala, Cardiovascular Informatics, 2006
8. L. Tran, Biometrics: 3D-THERMO CAM for Multi-Modal Face Recognition, 2006
9. M. deLisi, Cardiovascular Informatics, 2005
   Current Position: M.Sc. Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
10. J. Seblak, Face Recognition, 2005
11. M.A. Kontopoulos, Outreach Video Production, 2005
    Current Position: Graduate student, Dept. of Design and Media Arts, UCLA
12. P.N. Saldanha, 3-D Face Recognition, 2004
    Current Position: RF Engineering Consultant, Ericsson, Inc

Research Experience for High School Students Advisor of:

1. J. Niu (Houston Science Club), 2009
2. C. Rapp (Houston Science Club), Recruiting Applications for the iPhone, 2009
3. S. Subramanian (Houston Science Club), From Color to Sketch, 2008
   Current Position: 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: Student, UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
6. N. Ogah (Houston Science Club), 2007
   Current Position: Student, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
7. A. Corrington (Houston Science Club), Heart 2 Heart Webpage on Heart Disease, 2006
   Current Position: Student, Rice University, Houston, TX
8. T. Fofanova (Academy of Science and Technology, College Park High School), Cardiovascular Informatics, 2006
   Current Position: Student, Rice University, Houston, TX

Ph.D. Thesis Committee Member for:

1. R. Wang. Cryo-Electron Tomography of Human Blood Platelets. PhD thesis, Baylor College of Medicine, 2012 (Expected). Advisor: W. Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine)
2. B. Hu. Laser Multi-spectral Diffuse Scattering Confocal Microscopy. PhD thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 2010 (Expected). Advisor: H. Le
3. C.-S. Chen. An Investigation of Density-based Spatial Data Mining Techniques. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2010 (Expected). Advisor: C.F. Eick
4. C. Sun. Preserving the Decision Boundary Through Data Selection for Support Vector Machines. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2007. Advisor: R. Vilalta
5. N. Sun. Bio-heat Modeling of Peripheral Vascular Function and Applications. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2006. Advisor: I. Pavlidis
6. 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. PhD thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 2005. Advisor: P. Markenscoff
7. C.R. Booth. Developing and Applying Tools For Data Acquisition In Electron Cryomicroscopy. PhD thesis, Baylor College of Medicine, 2005. Advisor: W. Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine)
   Current Position: Project Manager, Gatan Inc., Pleasanton, CA
8. S. Mani. A Parallel Computational Model for Growth of Tissues with Multiple Types of Cells. PhD thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 2002. Advisor: P. Markenscoff
9. 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. PhD thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 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. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2008. Advisor: S. Shah
   Current Position: Laboratory Manager, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2. J.R. Thigpen. Photometric Calibration for Quantitative Spectral Microscopy Under Transmitted Illumination. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2007. Advisor: S. Shah
   Current Position: Owner/Lead Software Engineer, Unit of Work, LLC
3. C. Manohar. Extraction of Superficial Vasculature in Thermal Imaging. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2004. Advisor: I. Pavlidis
4. B. Varughese. Qunatifying Video Recordings of Neonatal Seizures by Regularized Optical Flow Methods. MSc thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 2004. Advisor: N. Karayiannis

Ph.D. External Reader for:

1. A. Katouzian. IVUS Atherosclerosis Tissue Characterization, Segmentation and Denoising. PhD thesis, Columbia University, 2009. Advisor: A. Laine
2. P. Yan. Cardiac Motion Analysis from Echocardiography. PhD thesis, Yale University, 2007. Advisor: J.S. Duncan
   Current Position: Postdoc, Diagnostic Radiology, Yale, New Haven, CT
3. G. Hamarneh. Towards Intelligent Deformable Models for Medical Image Analysis. PhD thesis, 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 1, 2003 - May 31, 2003: Prof. Tomas Gustavvson (Head of the Image Analysis Group), on sabbatical from the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden
2. September 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003: Prof. Theoharis Theoharis, on sabbatical from the Department of Informatics, University of Athens, Greece
3. 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

2009

M. Fang, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH

2009

D. Chu, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH

2009

E. Sgouritsa, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH

2009

J. Niu, Houston Science Club Presentation Award

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

S. Subramanian, 3rd place Houston Science Club Poster Award

2008

D. Chu, UH Asian Alumni Association Scholarship

2008

M. Fang, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH

2008

D. Chu, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Association Scholarship, UH

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

G. Toderici, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Award

2006

U. Kurkure, UH Computer Science Scholarship Award

2006

S. O'Malley, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Award

2005

S. O'Malley, UH Computer Science Best Software Award

2005

U. Kurkure, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Award

2004

M. Bello, UH Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Award

2004

S. O'Malley, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2004

M. Bello, UHCS NuView Scholarship

2004

M. Bello, W. M. Keck Predoctoral Fellowships in Computational and Structural Biology

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

V. Zavaletta, UH Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis Award, Honor College

2002

V. Zavaletta, UH Natural Science and Mathematics Alumni Poster Award

2002

A. Pednekar, UH Sigma Xi Poster Award

2002

A. Pednekar, 3rd place UH NSM Alumni Association Student Challenge Award

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

2009

Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Computational and Information Sciences,

University of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX

2009

Keynote Speaker, 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Guadalajara, Mexico

2009

Keynote Speaker, International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine,

Larnaca, Cyprus

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 Department of Physics, U. of Athens, Greece

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6. Service to the Department, College, and University

Committees: UH Computer Science Department

• Standing Committees
  • Awards Committee (2004-2008)
  • Curriculum Committee (1998 - 2002, Chairman: 1999)
  • Executive Committee (2004-2006, 2008-2010, Chairman: 2009)
  • Equipment Committee (2004-2006)
  • Faculty Search Committee (2001)
  • Industrial Advisory Board (2002-2004)
  • Multimedia Classroom Committee (1998)
  • Numerical Analysis Qualifying Examination Committee (1999-2003)
  • Software Engineering Qualifying Examination Committee (1997-1999)
  • Scholarship Committee (1999 - 2001)
  • Seminars' Organizer (1997-1999)
  • UH Computer Science Department Chair Search Committee (2009-2010)
• 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

• NSM Policy Committee (2008,2009)
• NSM Strategic Planning Committee (2008)
• NSM Teaching Excellence Committee (2003-2008, Chairman:2005)

Committees: University of Houston

• Faculty Advisory Board for the Office of the UH Vice President of Research (2009)
• 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

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

2005 -- present

Director, Computational Biomedicine Lab, Department of Computer Science,\\ \>\>University of Houston

2002 -- present

Director, Division of Bioimaging and Biocomputation, Institute for Digital Informatics and Analysis, University of Houston

2000 -- 2002

Director, Virtual Environments Research Institute, University of Houston

1997 -- 2005

Director, Visual Computing Lab, Department of Computer Science, \\ University of Houston

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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7. 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, Department of Health Informatics, School of Allied Health, University of Texas-Houston (1998)

Conference Involvement

• Conference Chair/Co-Chair
  • 4th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Chemistry (2003)
• Program Chair/Co-Chair
  • 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) (2008)
  • Pumps and Pipes, Houston, TX (2007, 2008)
  • International Workshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (CVII) (2006,2008)
  • Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic (2004)
• Video Co-Chair
  • Video Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2005, 2006)
• Organizing Committee Member
  • Robotics and Computer Vision Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, October 2003
  • Symposium to Honor Prof. S. Lennart Johnsson's 60th Birthday, Houston, TX, December, 2004
  • Texas Systems Day, Houston, TX, October 2004
  • TEXGRAPH'01: A Symposium on Computer Graphics & Computer Vision, Houston, TX, May 2001
• Steering Committee Member
  • Biomedical Discovery for Large Scale Data Sets
  • International Vulnerable Patient Registry: US IVP Registry Steering Committee
  • NSF Information and Data Management Workshop (IDM 2003)
  • SAE Digital Human Modeling Conference
• Keynote Speaker
  • November 16, 2009: 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • November 5, 2009: International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Larnaca, Cyprus
  • May 2, 2009: WSEAS Conference, University of Houston, Houston, TX
  • May 1, 2009: 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
• Workshop Co-Organizer
  • Pumps and Pipes, Houston, TX December 2009 (with Bill E. Kline and Alan B. Lumsden)
  • Pumps and Pipes, Houston, TX December 2008 (with Bill E. Kline and Alan B. Lumsden)
  • 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)
  • 2003 NSF PI Workshop on Robotics and Computer Vision, Las Vegas, NV, October 26-27, 2003 (with H. Asada (MIT), C. Tomasi (Duke), and M. Zefran (UIC))
  • IEEE Human Motion Analysis and Synthesis, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 16th, 2000 (with R. Sharma)
• Senior Advisor
  • Smart Systems 2000, Houston, TX, September 6-8, 2000
• Demos Co-Chair
  • 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010
  • IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Austin TX, February 21-22, 2007
• Short Courses Co-Chair
  • IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-21, 2007
• Exhibits Chair
  • IEEE Virtual Reality '99, Houston, TX, March 13-17, 1999
• Publications Chair
  • IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (2005, 2006)
  • IEEE Nonrigid and Articulated Motion Workshop, Puerto Rico, June 16, 1997
• Tutorials Co-Chair
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (2007)
• Invited Tutorials
  • Computing at the Intersection with Biomedical Imaging
  • IEEE Region 5 2002 Annual Technical Conference, Clear Lake, TX, April 19-21, 2002
• Tutorial Speaker
  • Image Processing for Volume Graphics, IEEE Visualization 2000
  • Image Processing for Volume Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH 2001
• Area Chair
  • Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) (2008)
• Program Committee Member
  • ACM Computer Animation (2000, 2001, 2002)
  • ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (2004)
  • ACM SIGMM Workshop on Video Surveillance (2003)
  • 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 Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
  • 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)
  • 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 Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (2008)
  • IEEE Human Motion Analysis (2000)
  • IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009)
  • IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (2007, 2008, 2009)
  • 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 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)
  • IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (2002)
  • IEEE Workshop on Variational, Geometric & Level Set Methods (VLSM) (2005)
  • International Symposium on Medical Simulation (2004)
  • International Symposium on Visual Computing (2000-2008)
  • International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO) (2002, 2004, 2006)
  • ISI International NAISO Symposium on Information Science Innovations in Clinical Trials (2001)
  • Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) (2006-2009)
  • MICCAI International Workshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (CVII) (2006, 2008)
  • MICCAI Workshop on Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology (2006)
  • Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology (MIAAB) (2007-2009)
  • SPIE Biometric Technology for Human Identification (2007, 2010)
  • 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)
• Session Organizer
  • 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 28, 2008: Reality Chat, University of Houston Bio-Research Career Information Day, Houston, TX

Editorial and Reviewer Work

• Associate Editor

  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)

• 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)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2000, 2006)
  • National Institutes of Health: BMIT Study Section (2007)
  • National Science Foundation (2000-2008)
  • Sam Houston State University (Internal Grant Program, 2008)
  • University of Houston, Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR) (1998, 2007, 2008)
  • WWTF: Vienna Science and Technology Fund (2007)
• Reviewer for journals
  • Communications of the ACM (Special Issue on Modeling for Medical Applications)
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding
  • Graphical Models and Image Processing
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
  • Image and Vision Computing
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  • Journal of Real-Time Imaging
  • Journal of Supercomputing
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Neuroinformatics
  • Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
  • Visual Computer
• Reviewer for conferences
  • ACM Computer Animation (2000, 2002)
  • ACM SIGGRAPH(1998, 2004)
  • Computer Graphics International (2004)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (1994, 1996, 2008)
  • Graphics Interface (1999, 2000)
  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2007-2009)
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (1995, 1999)
  • IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (1994)
  • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (1997)
  • IEEE Virtual Reality (2001)
  • International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (2001)
  • International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (1995)
  • International Conference on Computer Vision (2009)
  • International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (2009)
  • International Supercomputing Conference (1998)
• Reviewer for workshops
  • IEEE International Workshop on Cues in Communication (2001)
  • IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis (2000)
  • IEEE Workshop on Human Motion Analysis (2000)
  • IEEE Workshop on Motion of Non-Rigid and Articulated Objects (1994, 1997)
• Reviewer for edited books
  • Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum (Eds. B. Bhanu and I. Pavlidis)

Training Grant Participation

• Steering Committee
  • Biomedical Discovery for Large Scale Data Sets Steering Committee (2006-2009)

Software Dissemination

• ORION (Online Morphological Reconstruction of Neurons).

Dataset Dissemination

• UHCBL DB1 Database.

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