Konstantinos N. (Kostas) Plataniotis
Konstantinos N. (Kostas) Plataniotis received his B. Eng. degree in Computer Engineering & Informatics from University of Patras, Greece in 1988 and his M.S and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) in Melbourne, Florida, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. He was with the Computer Technology Institute (C.T.I) in Patras, Greece from 1989 to 1991. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Signal & Image Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada from November 1994 to May 1997. From September 1997 to June 1999 he was an Assistant Professor with the School of Computer Science at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. He is now an Associate Professor with The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Kostas is a Nortel Institute for Telecommunications Associate, a member of the Knowledge Media Design Institute and an Adjunct Professor with the School of Computer Science at Ryerson University. His research interests include multimedia systems, image processing, signal processing, communications systems, biometrics, stochastic estimation, target tracking and pattern recognition.
Kostas Plataniotis is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario, and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and he served as the IEEE Toronto Section 2004/05 Chair. Kostas is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is the image processing Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s e-letter , the Technical Program Co-Chair for ICME 2006 and the Vice-Chair of ITSC 2006.
Dr. Plataniotis is the 2005 recipient of IEEE Canada’s Outstanding Engineering Educator Award “for contributions to engineering education and inspirational guidance of graduate students” and the co-recipient of the 2006 IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks Outstaning Paper Award for the published in 2003 paper ” Face Recognition Using Kernel Direct Discriminant Analysis Alagorithms” (Juwei Lu, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis and Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos, IEEE TNN, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2003).