Short Bio

Professor Elias S. Manokalos is with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (DIT) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), where he has been the Founding Director of the interdisciplinary graduate program “Information Technologies in Medicine and Biiology”, and is also leading the Biomedical Data Science and Engineering Research group. Before joining NKUA he was a tenured associate professor with Northeastern University, Boston, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. where he was leading the High-Performance Signal Processing group. Moreover, he has held appointments at Harvard’s Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and, more recently Northeastern University's Bouve’ College of Health Sciences in the US.   

Elias enjoys engaging in and leading interdisciplinary research teams and has played a key role in more than 20 funded  research projects in the USA and Europe. He has served on the Editorial Board of several prestigious journals, such as the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Neural Networks, etc., and has been elected for consecutive terms in the IEEE SPS International Technical Committees on Machine Learning for Signal Processing and on the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems. Elias has authored or co-authored with his students, more than 140 publications in high-quality journals and refereed Conference Proceedings. Dr. Manolakos holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, an M.Sc. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Diploma in EE from the National Technical University of Athens. Prof. Manolakos is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Research Interests

His research interests are in statistical signal & image processing, machine and deep learning, mathematical modeling,  high performance and embedded computing, and their applications to address unmet needs in biomedical and environmental sciences and engineering.