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FACULTY

Konstantinos N. Plataniotis (Ph.D., Florida Tech)
Associate Professor

The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Phone:416-946-5605
Fax: 416-978-4425
Email: kostas@dsp.toronto.edu
Web: www.dsp.toronto.edu/~kostas

Biography
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), Melbourne, Florida, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. Dr. Plataniotis is an Associate Professor with The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Plataniotis is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Computer Science at Ryerson University, and a Special Graduate Faculty with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Plataniotis is a Senior Member of IEEE, a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario, and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He has served as lecturer in 12 short courses to industry and continuing education programs; he is a contributor to ten books, the co-author of Color Image Processing and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2000, (ISBN-3-540-66953-1), the co-editor of Color Imaging: Methods and Applications, CRC Press, September 2006, (ISBN 084939774X) and he has published 250 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. In 2005 he became the recipient of the IEEE Canada Engineering Educator Award for "contributions to engineering education and inspirational guidance of graduate students". Dr. Plataniotis is the joint recipient of the "2006 IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award" for the published in 2003 "Face recognition using kernel direct discriminant analysis algorithms", IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Vol. 14, No 1, 2003.

Keywords
Signal and image processing; multimedia systems, biometrics, communications systems