Short Bio

Dr. Michalis A. Savelonas is born in Athens. He received the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1998, the M.Sc. degree in Cybernetics in 2000 with honors, and the Ph.D. degree in the area of Image Analysis in 2008 with honors, all from the University of Athens, Greece. For his Ph.D. research he received a scholarship by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology (25%) and the European Social Fund (75%).

He is currently a research fellow in the Bio-Image Analytics Lab of Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Houston, TX, USA. In addition, he has an active collaboration with Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece, as well as with Information Technology Institute, Center for Technological Research of Central Greece. In the past, he has served in various academic positions in the University of Athens, Hellenic Air Force Academy and Technological and Educational Institute of Lamia. In 2002-2004 he has been working in software industry as responsible for defining, designing, coding, debugging, testing, integrating and documenting software modules involving real-time systems within the context of various projects. He is a member of IEEE. 

Dr. Savelonas has co-authored more than 30 scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters, whereas he has been actively involved in 8 Εuropean, US and Greek R&D projects. He is a reviewer in various international journals including Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Signal Processing and EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.

His teaching experience covers both undergraduate and postgraduate level, including courses for Image Processing, Signal Processing, Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis, Intelligent Medical Systems, Programming, Compilers and Introduction in Computer Science.

His research interests include image analysis, segmentation, pattern recognition, biomedical applications and watermarking.