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.

Education

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

Awards and Honors

• Eckhard Pfeiffer Distinguished Professor, Dept. Computer Science, U. of Houston , 2006
• Best Poster Award (1st Place), International Greek Biotechnology Forum
• Best Poster Award (1st Place), 2nd Hellenic Congress of Atherosclerosis
• Research Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2003.
• UH Teaching Excellence Award, University of Houston, 2003.
• AEHA James E. Muller Vulnerable Plaque New Investigator Prize for Clinical Research, 2003.
• President, University of Houston Chapter of Sigma Xi (2002-2003)
• Keynote Speaker
  • October 17, 2007: International Conference VipIMAGE - I ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal
  • 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
  • October 8, 2004: 14th Annual Keck Center Research Conference, Houston, TX
  • November 29, 2002: XI International Conference on Computing
  • November 21, 2002: AMDO'02 - IAPR Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects
  • February 2, 2001: International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Prague, Czech Republic, 2001.
• IEEE Distinguished Visitor, 2002-2004.
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2000.
• Schlumberger Technical Foundation Award, Houston, TX, 1998-1999.
• Gerondelis Foundation Fellowship, Boston, MA, 1991-1992.
• Bodosakis Foundation Fellowship, Athens Greece, 1989-1991.
• Highest honors for top graduating student at the Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece, 1989.