Biography
Konstantinos N. (Kostas) Plataniotis received his B. Eng. degree in Computer Engineering & Informatics from University of Patras, Greece and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech), Melbourne, Florida. He was with the Computer Science Department at Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada from July 1997 to June 1999. Dr. Plataniotis is currently a Professor with The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he directs the Multimedia Laboratory. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the School of Computer Science at Ryerson University. Kostas is a founding member and the inaugural Director – Research of the Identity, Privacy and Security Initiative (IPSI) at the University of Toronto. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) at the University of Toronto.
The recipient of numerous grants and research contracts as the principal investigator, he speaks internationally and writes extensively in his field and he has been a consultant to a number of companies. He has served as lecturer in 12 short courses to industry and continuing education programs; he is a contributor to twelve books, the co-author of Color Image Processing and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2000, (ISBN-3-540-66953-1), the co-editor of Color Imaging: Methods and Applications, CRC Press, September 2006, (ISBN 084939774X) and he has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
In 2005 he became the recipient of the IEEE Canada Engineering Educator Award for “contributions to engineering education and inspirational guidance of graduate students”. Dr. Plataniotis is the joint recipient of the “2006 IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award” for the published in 2003 “Face recognition using kernel direct discriminant analysis algorithms”, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Vol. 14, No 1, 2003. He is the Managing Guest Editor of the IEEE/Wiley Press volume on “Biometrics: Theory, Methods and Applications” to be published in March 2009.
Keywords
Signal and image processing; multimedia systems, biometrics, communications systems |
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