Biographical Sketch
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris (M'91) received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Athens, Athens, Greece, the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
In August 1997, he joined the University of Houston (UH), Houston, TX, after a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Kakadiaris is the founder of the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory and he is also the 2008 Director of the Methodist-University of Houston-Weill Cornel Medical College Institute for Biomedical Imaging Sciences (IBIS). His current research interests include cardiovascular informatics, biomedical image analysis, biometrics, computer vision, and pattern recognition. He is the co-inventor of in vivo vasa vasorum detection using differential imaging.
Prof. Kakadiaris is the recipient of a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Award, the Schlumberger Technical Foundation Award, the UH Computer Science Research Excellence Award, the UH Enron Teaching Excellence Award, and the James Muller Vulnerable Plague Young Investigator Prize. His research has been featured on Discovery Channel, National Public Radio, KPRC NBC News, KTRH  ABC News, and KHOU CBS News.