Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor
Computational Biomedicine Lab
Department of Computer Science &
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Houston

Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, is the founder of the Computational Biomedicine Lab, formerly the Visual Computing Lab. 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 Plague Young Investigator Price. His research has been featured on National Public Radio, KPRC NBC News, KTRH ABC News, and KHOU CBS News. His other research interests include biomedical image analysis, modeling and simulation, computational biomedicine, biometrics, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Dr. Kakadiaris earned his bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Athens in Greece, his master's degree in computer science from Northeastern University and his Ph. D. at the University of Pennsylvania.