George A. Papakostas
George A. Papakostas received the Diploma, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999, 2002 and 2007, respectively, from the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh), Greece. He has 15 years of experience in large-scale systems design as a senior software engineer and technical manager. He is the Head of the Machine Learning and Vision (MLV) Research Group. He is a Tenured Full Professor in the Department of Informatics at DUTh, Greece. Prof. Papakostas has (co) authored more than 250 publications in indexed journals, international conferences, book chapters, one book (in Greek), three edited books, and eight journal special issues. His publications have over 4900 citations with an h-index 38 (Google Scholar). He has been included in the World's Top 2% of Scientists' Stanford list for 2022 and 2023 years in the field of "Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing". His research interests include machine learning, computer/machine vision, pattern recognition, and computational intelligence.