Nikolaos Bourbakis

Nikolaos G. Bourbakis (Νικόλαος Μπουρμπάκης); born,22 March 1950 in Chania, Crete is a Greek computer scientist known for his work.

[[Education and Career: Bourbakis has graduated from the 2nd Public Gymnasion of Chania, Greece (Hellas). He received his BSc in Mathematics from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and his Doctoral Degree in Computer Science & Engineering from University of Patras, Greece. He has started his teaching/research career in University of Patras in 1978-1984, then he moved to USA as Assistant Professor at George Mason University 1984-89. In 1989 he joined IBM in California and returned to academia in 1991 as Associate Professor at SUNY Binghamton, where he promoted to Full Professor 1995-2000. In 1999-2000 he went to Technical University of Crete, Greece as Full Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Lad Director. In 2001 he has joined WSU as the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of IT. He served as the Director of the Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Director of the Graduate Studies in Computer Science & Engineering Dept, College of Engineering (2001-2007). He also was the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering (2007-2009). From these posts he has established major partnerships among the Academia-Government-Industry for economic development that generated research grants in the range of $40M. He is the Founder and Director of a Center on Assistive Research Technologies (CART) for developing technologies for people in need (2007 – present). He is also a Professor of Geriatrics (j.a.), School of Medicine, (2010 - present). He was a Visiting Research Professor at the Ohio State University (2011- 2015) and at Purdue University (2018 - 2020). He is the Founder and President (2011-- present) of a non-profit foundation on Biological & Artificial Intelligence Foundation (BAIF) supporting International Conferences, Best Students Paper-Awards.

Research: Dr. Bourbakis expertise is on applied artificial intelligence, assistive technologies, intelligent robotics, brain functionality, image processing and computer architectures. He has initiated and developed several innovated research projects four of them are: (i) the SCAN Formal Language for accessing 2D or 3D arrays and automatically generating the (nxn)! or (nxnxn)! permutations with many applications; (ii) the Kykloforia Formal Language for modeling collision free navigation (traffic priorities and associations) of multiple autonomous robots in 2D unknown space; (iii) the Keimeno Formal Language for the holistic processing and deep understanding of technical documents; and (iv) the Tyflos System for assisting visually impaired individuals to navigate in 3D space, to read text/newspapers and to recognize objects, faces and facial expressions. He has extensively published (500 items) books, chapters, papers in conferences, and research papers in top professional journals, such as IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems; IEEE Trans. on Image Processing; IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics; IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting; IEEE Trans. on IT & Biomedicine; IEEE Trans. on Human, Machine Systems; IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging; IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering; IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Health Informatics; IEEE Trans. on Ultra-sonics, Ferroelectrics & Frequency Control; IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid; IEEE Sensors Journal; Pattern Recognition Journal, other. He is the author in two books and an editor in numerous edited books. He has also contributed many book chapters in edited books and refereed papers in IEEE Conferences.

Professional Service and Activities: Dr. Bourbakis has served the professional and research community in various posts the last 45 years. He is the founder, chairman, organizer and steering committee chair of IEEE International Conferences, Symposia and Workshops, some of them are: IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 1989 – present, (36 years); IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE) 2000 – present, (24 years); IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA) 1996, 1998, 1999, and Steering Committee Co-Chair since 2013 – present, (15 years); In addition, he was Founder and Chair in numerous one year IEEE International Symposia and Workshops: some of them are: IEEE International Workshop on AI in Automation, 1992; International IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Tools & Applications, 1993;  International IEEE Symposium on Intelligence on Neural & Biological Systems, 1995; International IEEE Symposium on Automation and Robotics, 1996; International IEEE Symposium on Image, Speech and Natural Language Systems, 1996; International IEEE Symposium on Research on Assistive Technology, 2007; International IEEE Conference on Monitoring and Surveillance Research, 2011. He has delivered more than 200 keynote/invited talks in Universities, Industry, IEEE and International Conferences, Symposia; He has served as an associate editor in a dozen IEEE and international journals and was a guest editor of 24 special issues in numerous IEEE and International journals; He has graduated 33 PhD students and 41 masters.

Awards: Professor Bourbakis has received several IEEE and International recognitions, honors and awards during his academic-professional career, some of them are: US Academy of Achievements, Official Nominator of Computer Science Programs (1990); IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award (1992); IEEE ICTAI Outstanding Contribution Award (1993); US Academy of Achievements, Official Nominator of Computer Engineering Programs (1993-94); Member of the New York Academy of Science, NY, USA (1993 – present); IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member (1996); IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (1998); IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker (1996-2000); Diploma of Honor, University of Patras, Greece (2007); IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society-GR Award of Achievements (2013); IEEE Computer Society  ICTAI for 30 years Leadership Recognition (2018); Honorary Doctoral Degree, University of Piraeus, Greece (2020); Honorary Emeritus Professor, Technical University of Crete, Greece, (2021 – ); Member of the Board of Trustees at TUC, Crete, Greece (2022 –2027).

He has been elected: IEEE Life Fellow; and AAIA Fellow; ]].