Draft:Aggelos Katsaggelos

Aggelos Katsaggelos is a Greek engineer, vision scientist, and educator. He is a professor at Northwestern University where he holds the Joseph Cummings Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the Director of the Image and Video Processing Laboratory. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, Deputy Director of Computation of the Center for Computational Imaging and Signal Analytics in Medicine, Core Faculty in the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Faculty in Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI), Faculty in the Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering, Faculty in Master of Science in Robotics, and Affiliated Faculty in the Center for Deep Learning

Early life and Education
Aggelos Katsaggelos was born in 1956 in Arnaia, Chalkidiki, Greece. He received his B.S. degree of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in 1979 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology for graduate school, where he completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1985. He joined the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University in 1985.

Career
Aggelos Katsaggelos is a distinguished academic and researcher in the field of electrical engineering and computer science. His tenure at Northwestern University spans several decades, where he has held various academic and leadership positions within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS/ECE). Since 1996, he has served as a Professor at the university, contributing significantly to research and education in the field. Notably, he holds the prestigious Joseph Cummings Chaired Professorship since 2015 and previously held the AT&T Chaired Professorship from 2011 to 2015.

In addition to his academic roles, Katsaggelos has been actively involved in research collaborations and affiliations with prominent institutions. Since 2009, he has been associated with the STA Argonne National Laboratory, contributing to interdisciplinary research initiatives. He also served as an Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University.

Katsaggelos's contributions extend beyond academia into the realm of industry collaboration and healthcare. He co-founded and directed the Motorola Center for Seamless Communications from 1998 to 2015, fostering innovation and technology transfer. His academic affiliation with the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, at NorthShore University HealthCare System since 1998 underscores his commitment to interdisciplinary research and application.

Throughout his career, Katsaggelos has held visiting professorships and academic appointments at various institutions worldwide, enriching his scholarly endeavors. Notable among these are his roles as a Visiting Professor at the University of Athens in Greece (2003-2004) and as a Visiting Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (summer 1987).

Research Interests
Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing (Enhancement, Restoration, Coding, Analysis), Processing of Moving (Video) Images (Application of Rate-Distortion Theory to Motion Estimation, Very Low Bit Rate Coding, and Interpolation, Filtering, and Recovery), Stereo and 3D Image Processing, Computational Vision, Implementations of Signal Processing Algorithms, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Multimodal Signal Processing (Speech Assisted Video Analysis/Synthesis/Coding, bimodal speech recognition, biometrics), Multimedia Signal Processing, Multimedia Systems, (Wireless) Multimedia Communications, Multimedia over Networks, Multimedia and Knowledge, Multimedia and Internet Technologies, Medical and Biological Signal Processing, Scientific Studies in the Arts, Scientific Studies in Health, DNA based Computing, Computational Imaging, Machine and Deep Learning.

Publications
Aggelos Katsaggelos has published more than 1000 articles, books, and patents. . Overall, his work has been cited in the academic literature more than 37,000 times, according to Google Scholar

Awards - Recogintion - Publicity

 * Life Fellow of IEEE (2022)
 * Fellow of OSA (2018)
 * Fellow of EURASIP (2017)
 * First Prize for M. Zabihi, A. B. Rad, A. K. Katsaggelos, S. Kiranyaz, S. Narkilahti and M. Gabbouj, "Detection of atrial fibrillation in ECG hand-held devices using a random forest classifier," 2017 Computing in Cardiology (CinC), Rennes, France, 2017, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.22489/CinC.2017.069-336.
 * Second Prize for M. Zabihi, A. B. Rad, S. Kiranyaz, M. Gabbouj and A. K. Katsaggelos, "Heart sound anomaly and quality detection using ensemble of neural networks without segmentation," 2016 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2016, pp. 613-616.
 * Third Prize for Rad, A. B., Zabihi, M., Kastaggelos, A., Kiranyaz, M. S., & Gabbouj, M. (2015) . A Novel P300-Speller Error Detection Approach in Brain-Computer Interface. In 7th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference (BCI Challenge@NER 2015), Montpellier, France, 2015
 * Best paper award by European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Marrakech, Morocco, September 9-13, 2013, for the paper ”Variational Bayesian Compressive Blind Image Deconvolution” co-authored by B. Amizic, L. Spinoulas, and R. Molina.
 * IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2010)
 * Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, The Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College, London, November 2009.
 * Best paper award by the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA) September 16-18, 2009, Salzburg, Austria, for the paper ”Bayesian Super- Resolution Image Reconstruction using an l1 prior,” co-authored with S. Villena, M. Vega, and R. Molina.
 * Fellow of SPIE (2009)
 * IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (2007-2008)
 * Best paper award by the IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2007), San Antonio, TX, Sept. 16-19, 2007, for the paper ”Total Variation Image Restoration and Parameter Estimation Using Variational Posterior Distribution Approximation,” co-authored with D. Babacan and R. Molina.
 * Best paper award by the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006, for the paper ”Locally Embedded Linear Subspaces for Efficient Video Indexing and Retrieval,” co-authored with Zhu Li and Li Gao
 * IEEE Signal Processing Society 2001 Meritorious Service Award
 * IEEE Signal Processing Society 2001 Best Paper Award for the paper co-authored with Guido Schuster “An Optimal Polygonal Boundary Encoding Scheme in the Rate-Distortion Sense”, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Jan. 1998.
 * IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) Fellow of IEEE (1998)
 * Senior Member of IEEE (1992-1997)
 * Greek State Honorary Scholarship (1974, 1975, 1978)
 * Ameritech Fellow (1989-1990)
 * Member of the Sigma Xi Honorary Scientific Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Illinois Academy of Sciences
 * Work on the Filtering of Digital Angiograms was featured in Northwestern Daily, Jan. 23, 1990.
 * Work on the Restoration of Hubble Space Telescope Images was featured in the Chicago Tribune, Dec. 15, 1991.
 * Work on the Restoration of Hubble Space Telescope Images was featured in Constructs, April 1992.
 * Work on the Restoration of Hubble Space Telescope Images was featured in McCormick Dimension, Fall 1992.
 * Work on the Filtering of Digital Angiograms was featured in Partners’ Update, Fall 1992.
 * Work on the Restoration of Disney Animation was featured in McCormick Dimension, Fall 1994. Images restored in our Lab were accepted for the first time as evidence in the court by Dr. W. R. Oliver, Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, Washington, D.C., Fall 1995.
 * A profile was presented in the NU Observer, 3/9/98.
 * The Northwestern-Motorola Center on Telecommunications and its Director were featured in the
 * Chicago Tribune (9/14/98), The Daily Northwestern (9/23/98), and the Observer (9/24/98). Interview given on Chicago Tonight, March 20, 2003.
 * Work on Audio-Visual Speech Processing was featured in the Chicago Tribune, May 29, 2004.
 * Work on the colorization of early photographs of the painting Bathers by a River by Matisse was covered by major online and print media outlets, including MIT Technology Review, Arts Section New York Times (the media interactive), MSNBC’s Cosmic Blog, Northwestern’s FrontPage, McCormick News, TA NEA (Greek Newspaper), PhysOrg (Summer-Fall 2010), Northwestern Daily, McCormick Magazine, Kathimerini (Greek Newspaper).
 * Results from Cortes, J. M., A. Lopez, R. Molina, and A. K. Katsaggelos, “Variational Bayesian localization of EEG sources with generalized Gaussian priors”, The European Physical Journal Plus, vol. 127, issue 11, pp. 140-152, Nov. 2012, appeared on the cover of the Journal.